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Foxconn A78AX-K review

A budget DDR2 motherboard that beats its DDR3 brethren? Yes please

Our Score 4

Last reviewed: 2009-04-27April 27th 2009

Price at launch £60.00
No of PCI Express x16 slots 1
No of PCI Express x1 Slots 1
Number of PCI Slots 3
Features Supports: AMD Phenom, Athlon 64x2, Athlon 64, Sempron processors, Socket AM2 and AM2+ with HT3.0 interface
Number Of USB Ports On Motherboard 10
Supported RAM Size (GB) 4
Additional Information 5.2GT/s HyperTransport / ual channel DDR2 1066/800/667x 2 DIMM RAM / 1 x ATA133 / 6 x SATA 2.0 / 5.1 Channel HD Audio / Gigabit LAN /

Product Summary

A78AX-K

Foxconn A78AX-K

Price at launch

£60.00

For

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AM2+ socket

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Fared better than DDR3

Against

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Overclocking options

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Only two RAM slots

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