Pros: 790fx platform/ SB750 for Phenom Overclocking. Good voltage support for cpu/memory. I'll throw a single 4870x2 on at some point, we'll see how well it talks with the board. No problems installing ddr2 1066 memory, board + cpu automatically lowered frequency to 400 (800) Timings were actually better than rated (5-5-5-15), I did have to change the voltage up to 2.1.

Cons: None. I think the bad grammar and spelling in the bios/manual is kind of cute :-D.

Overall Review: AMD 5400+ Black Edition @3.3ghz w/ Zalman 9500a. OCZ Platinum 4gb ddr2 1066 (5-5-5-15 @800). Corsair 750watt psu (x1 60amp 12v rail), x1900gt w/ Zalman fan, sinks on the memory @640core/720mem. Antec 900 w/ 4x Scythe Slipstreams, 1x Tricool Blue LED, The 200mm "beast" exhaust fan.

Pros: This board is loaded with features, only found on far more expensive boards. Very stable and easy recovery from OC failures. I have been using it for a month now and have it running at 272mhz. This takes my Phenom II X3 710 to 3.6ghz. The chip and board will go much further, but my ram is holding me back, for the moment. It is rock solid in Windows 7beta, Vista Ulimate 64 and XP Pro.

Cons: Only one PCI slot. I had to flash it to bios version P07 to unlock some bios features. Hardware monitor only monitors two of the five on board fan headers.

Overall Review: The FF code is telling you that it hung while updating the bios. Simply pull the power plug and press the bios reset button by the IDE connector to restore operation. This can happen with a new hardware install.

Pros: Loaded with features, SB750 makes for superior overclocking ability, Crossfire 16X x 2 possible, BIOS fairly easy to work with. Great deal with Phenom II 940 combo.

Cons: Ugly box.

Overall Review: To Crossfire the two 16-lane slots (the blue ones), you merely need longer bridges. For $14.99 each, you can get them from ASUS, their part number is 14G030025906. All PCI-E slots are 2.0 x 16, but the black ones run at 8 lanes.

Pros: I bought the motherboard and cpu combo and other parts for a complete build. The motherboard is great. USB and SATA and other slots abound. No problems with any of the hardware.

Cons: Their 'manual' states ... Power on your computer and get into OS (Windows XP 32-bit with SP2 ..." Fair enough but who reads the manual? I missed the SP2 part and tried to run their driver setup CD and it would not run. Eventually decided to update windows XP first and then all was well. This was easy to miss and I am probably not the only one who will.

Pros: Two clams after the thirty four dollar rebate on this with a Phenom 9850 is an incredible deal. I wouldn't have bought this Motherboard alone for that price. It will be an even better deal if I actually fill out the rebate form and send it in. Everything went together without a problem. It did take a lot longer than it should have but a lot of that was because my four year old daughter insisted on sitting on my lap and watching. During the install the B&W photos in the manual showing where everything was were unreadable. Why couldn't they just do away with the manual and send a color poster with the connector map instead??? OH WAIT, they did but I didn't see it because it was at the bottom of the box. Why couldn't they supply a USB backplane connector. OH WAIT, they did. It came with 6 SATA and 6 molex power to SATA power connectors too!

Cons: SATA connector replacement was a little inconvenient but not that bad. The in-case speaker connector was at the totally wrong place but it comes with an onboard buzzer/speaker for listening to bios beep codes. The sys-fan connector was also hard to get to but I used the alt-fan connector instead for a much neater wiring path.

Overall Review: I had no problems with this install. It all just plugged in and worked. I couldn't get the AMI overclocking tool to run but the FoxConn One utility runs without a problem. I am not an over-clocker though. One of the reasons behind purchasing this MB / Quad core combo was to run VMware virtual workstation. This is a big upgrade from my Gigabyte GA-M61P-S3 and two core 1.8 AMD. Drive speed has a bigger impact on my system performance than processor speed though. My ATI x1300 card finally works properly with this board where it didn't with my nvidia chipset based Gigabyte board. I don't believe in spending the money on the latest greatest MB and Processor but this gets me pretty close. I am not a gamer.

Pros: BIOS is loaded with everything and then some, design is excellent with everything in good spots. Did not even need to flash the ROM for the Deneb 940. I installed XP in a total of 7 minutes!!!!!, then VISTA in 10 minutes!!! WOW There was even 6 SATA cables with the power adapters to convert from molex. Best board EVER!!!! I give it 7 eggs. =)

Cons: I am using an old case, so I have yet to figure out the schematic for the front panel audio. It is HD so a little different. (not really a con just a heads up for case purchases). Only con is minor: make sure YOU ADD ONE DEVICE AT A TIME (i.e. One HDD, one RAM DIMM) boot then shutdown and add the other. Must be a glitch, but it will work just fine.

Overall Review: I am dissapointed that the BIOS has no "Wake On LAN" option. It is a security risk anyway, so not exactly a con.

Pros: This is my last up-date for this board i'am now using a Phenom II 940 cpu and 4 3850 video card on this board my 3dmark-06 is now 22,137 . Some have ask how the PCIe slot work on this board . First there are only 2 PCIe x16 slots on this board (there blue) the 2 black slots are PCIe x8 slots . Now when you put a video card into the black slot it will DECLOCK the closet blue slot to x8. so put a video card in the top black slot the top blue (x16) slot will declock to x8 what you end up with is this 16x16 or16x8x8 and this is what i have with 4 video cards 8x8x8x8 hope this help . O one more thing cool & quite is call power now on this board

Cons: none

Overall Review: As i have said before this has been a great running board for me i have been using it for about 4 mounth now trouble free

Pros: I would recommend this board to anyone planning to run CentOS or other Red Hat based Linux OS. After reading mixed reviews, mostly good related to running Windows (but not good about running Linux), I decided to try this board anyway. Glad I did! Excellent board with lots of connectivity. Booted up and accepted CentOS 5.2 (based on RHEL 5.2) install without any problems. Phenom II X4 940 seems to work well with Included BIOS (version 08.00.15).

Cons: The support site listed in the manual (www.foxconnsupport.com) appears to not exist. Support from the foxconnchannel.com site seems to be somewhat limited.

Overall Review: Foxconn A79A-S motherboard AMD Phenom II X4 940 2GB x 2 Patriot DDR2 PC2-6400 Western Digital WD 800 SATA Hard Drive KFA 8500 GT Video Card Lite-On CD-RW 750 Watt Power Supply Running CentOS 5.2 with Xen I plan on using this as a platform for learning and for more advanced project development. But the features and performance offered by this platform are excellent for many high performance computing needs.