Foxconn 875A02-6EKRS P4 Motherboard

     Foxconn started out as a Taiwanese plastic manufacturing company as early as 1974, and since 1996 has produced PC enclosures that have always been worthy of the vast majority of overclockers. Of course producing cases doesn't always give a manufacturer the means to start producing other products, or does it? Well it looks like Foxconn hasn't really paid much attention to the rules, and have released a whole series of budget motherboards for the enthusiast that loves a whole load of features that only an expensive package will give you. Normally a new manufacturer would have to go through a whole series of revisions and research and development in order to achieve a status worthy of a ClubOC review, but for now we'll assume that Foxconn has what it take to turn out a board that performs well and has excellent stability. Lets take a look at their flagship board, the 875A02-6EKRS.

Specifications

Chipset
Intel® 875P + Intel® ICH5R

Memory
Dual channel, 4 x 184-pin DIMM sockets; up to 4GB DDR400 (PC3200), DDR333 (PC2700), and DDR266 (PC2100) SDRAM

Expansion Slots
1 x AGP 8X (AGP 3.0); 5 x PCI (PCI 2.3)

IDE
Dual channel UltraDMA 100/66/33, supports up to 4 devices

Serial ATA (SATA)
Dual SATA/150; supports up to 2 devices and RAID 0

Audio
Integrated Realtek ALC650, 5.1 channel (AC97 2.2); S/PDIF-out interface (header)

LAN
Integrated Intel® Gigabit Ethernet (GbE), 10/100/1000 Mbps

IEEE-1394
Integrated VIA VT6307; includes front I/O support (header)

Rear Panel I/O Ports
1 x PS/2 keyboard
1 x PS/2 mouse
1 x RJ45 (LAN)
4 x USB 2.0
1 x line-in, line-out, and mic (audio)
1 x parallel (SPP/BPP/ECP/EPP)
1 x COM1 (16550-compatible UART)
1 x IEEE-1394

Internal I/O Connectors
2 x USB 2.0 headers; support 4 ports
S/PDIF-out connector
1 x COM2 header
IEEE-1394 header

BIOS
4Mb flash ROM, Award BIOS, PnP, DMI 2.0, WfM 2.0, SM BIOS 2.3, ACPI

Standards/Manageability
PCI 2.3, USB 2.0; WfM 2.0, DMI 2.0, WOL by PME, WOR by PME

Special Features
Wake on ring, LAN, USB, keyboard & mouse
Support for Smart Card reader (header)
STD (Suspend-to-Disk); STR (Suspend-to-RAM)
Foxconn Super utilities- SuperStep, SuperRecovery, SuperBoot, SuperBIOS-Protect, SuperSpeed, SuperLogo, and SuperUpdate

Accessories
Support CD; user's manual; cable set -1 x UltraDMA 100/66/33, 2 x SATA, 1 x FDD

Form Factor
ATX, 12' x 9.6'