Foxconn 975X7AB-8EKRS2H Motherboard Review

As with all of our reviews we pit the default speed system against the overclocked one in a head to head byte match. The results of this are below. The effective overclock here is 2.66Ghz. The 333Mhz FSB feels a little on the low side but our particular motherboard did not want to run at anything over 340Mhz FSB. Even just 1Mhz over this would prevent the board from posting regardless of voltage and cooling. Given the situation we decided to get the most out of the system and 333Mhz was the best we could do in terms of processor speed and memory overclock.

Nothing new and exciting to say here except that the overclocking results are very linear across the board. In a way this is to be expected since the resulting core clock is the same as a Core 2 Duo E6700 the only advantage we have is in FSB and core memory speed which helps to increase performance by lowering memory latency.

In terms of overclocking we were a little disappointed in the seemingly impassable 340Mhz barrier, we're pretty sure this was not related to the motherboard but rather a glitch in memory support or poor silicon in our E6400 processor. Either way reports of 360-380Mhz FSB should be easily attainable with the right combination of hardware and tweaking.