Foxconn A88GMV AM3 AMD 880G HDMI Micro ATX AMD Motherboard

Pros: It has a good BIOS.

Cons: Even though it has 6 SATA connectors on the board, 4 are actual SATA, one is ESATA, and the other is IDE. So motherboard RAID can only be made up of 4 drives. It doesn't matter to me because I used Linux RAID.

Overall Review: Four 1TB Samsung F3 drives in RAID 5 = 700MB/s maximum read, 400MB/s average with mdadm installed in Ubuntu 10.10 with a 2.6Ghz 45W AMD X2 processor. I used this for my SOHO file server.

Pros: This is an update from my previous review for this board ... The Manual's "Reset" CMOS Jumper setting diagram for this Motherboard is wrong ! If you call FoxConn to confirm ...the Tech will just look at the online PDF Manual & tell you incorrectly also ! I have 5 of these Motherboards & they were shipped with the CMOS Jumper in the correct position which is just the opposite of the A88GMV's Manual.

Cons: Any Brand Motherboard can be defective ...but IMO alot of the negative reviews for this board are being caused by changing the CMOS Jumper to the wrong setting due it being "INCORRECT" in the Manual.

Overall Review: If you're still confused ...just click on & then zoom in on Newegg's overhead view of this Motherboard. It shows the "CORRECT" position of the CMOS "Reset" Jumper setting.

Pros: So far, so good. Almost everything came out perfect on this board. For the price, its great for a budget PC.

Cons: Only problem I came upon was the inability to run my 1600 MHz G. Skill ram at 1600 MHz. When I would overclock to 1600 from 1333 the system would freeze randomly, i do no recommend this board if you plan to run 1600 MHz RAM.

Overall Review: great for a budget rig i built for a family member. Rig: Rig: - Rosewill R101-P-BK - Foxconn A88GMV - Rosewill RV2-500 500W - AMD Phenom II X4 840 3.2GHz - G.SKILL Ripjaws Series 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 1600MHz - Seagate Barracuda ST320DM000 320GB 7200 RPM

Pros: Looked great for what I wanted.

Cons: Dead on Arrival. Shipped with CMOS jumper on CLEAR! Even the battery had what looked like rust on it.

Pros: My son's HP 6654Y computer MB died exactly one month after the warranty expired.. The OEM MB was listed at $83.00 at HP, however it was out of stock. My options were to send it to HP for repair for around $400 or buy the MB from a company (Referred by HP) for $183. After some research I found out that the HP MB is manufactured by Foxconn. One of many good things about newegg is the option to search for a replacement simply by knowing a few details such as CPU and memory. The Mb was a perfect fit on the HP case and I do mean perfect. I was able to use all the OEM connectors without cutting or splicing anything in about 10 minutes. I was even able to use the original front panel audio, USB and memory card reader on the case. The only thing missing is the HP logo and the bloat ware which as we all know is not big lost. I was not able to use was the mini wireless card but for $29.99 I got an Asus PCE-N15 wireless N card also from newegg.

Cons: The fans run at top speed.

Overall Review: For an extra $69.99 I upgraded the onboard GPU with a MSI R5670 1GB video Card. I also upgraded the memory from 4GB to 12 GB for an extra $40 dollars. Total cost was around 179.00 which was far less than what HP wanted to do the repair and that did not include shipping, I got all the parts listed above from newegg. This made things easier as I did not have to buy parts from several sources and the items arrived in the same box and from one vendor. As usual, Newegg shipping was unbeatable.

Pros: Price. Any board within the features / chipset is usualy 80+, got this on sale 50$ (from 70$)

Cons: Mine was defective. BIOS date was skipping 4 days in advance for some calendaristic dates. 13 sept skipped to 17th. Annoying to set date at each startup... Foxconn support suggested changing battery or contacting the vendor to test it. Clearly they did not understand me. Myabe I was unlucky, but now I have to RMA it and lose some $. 1 eggs for defective product and 1 egg for non helpfull support.

Overall Review: I should stick with Asus or Gigabyte from now on. Never had a problem with any of their boards I owned...

Pros: This is a nice board that includes video, sound, and lan. Supports Phenom II which is nice. Has 5 sataII ports and 1 ext sataII (on board). But those are specs that you can read for yourself. For my purpose of a somewhat low powered(wattage) system it works fine. And yes, cpu cores are unlockable with this board...people, you do realize that cpu core unlocking is a gamble. See other thoughts.

Cons: There are some complications getting the dual channel memory mode to work with the 1600(oc) speed. This is due to a limitation with the processor from what I have read. I have both a Phenom II X2 550 Black Edition (unlockable-see other thoughts) and Phenom II X6 1090T Black Edition. I have the X6 on a MSI 790FX-GD70 motherboard. The X6 can seem to run the memory in dual channel mode at 1600. I had the X2 on the same board but could never get it to run...clarification - it would run but it could not pass memtest. If your memory cannot pass memtest, it may run windows, but it will not be extremely stable..wouldn't advise. The X6 runs it and runs it well.

Overall Review: Just because the board supports unlocking cores, doesn't mean you are guaranteed your cpu will work. The 2 or 3 core Phenom II are produced either because 1 or 2 of the cores did not pass standards (they couldn't take the stress test) or there was a higher demand for 2 or 3 core than the 4 core so they just disable 1 or 2 of the cores and shipped it as such. If the cpu that you get(the gamble) is one of the ones because of high demand, then lucky you. Even if the cores did pass the stress test sometimes you can still use them, but obviously with some chance they might have glitches especially if stressed. At least that is my understanding of it. My X2 unlocked, but ever now and then it would lock up or act funky. If you have a problem with an item, please a little time to look it up before bashing the item. Usually, my friend google can find anything.

Pros: Great over clocking features. Very fast and overall a great board.

Cons: No floppy connector. I like to format my hard drive if necessary with the Windows Start Up disk.

Overall Review: If you are using a 32 bit OS then only 4gb of ram memory will be used.