Hi all,

We have just published a review of *Foxconn's DigitaLife A79A-S
motherboard*. If you could post a link on your site that would be very
much appreciated.

*Link:*
http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/2008/09/15/foxconn-digitalife-a79a-s/1


*Picture:*
http://images.bit-tech.net/content_images/2008/09/foxconn-digitalife-a79a-s/fp_img.jpg


*Quote:
*/Foxconn's DigitaLife A79A-S is a very average board: the unimpressive
feature list, the adequate performance and the overwhelming level of
mediocrity that engulfs the package will set you back an amount that
warrants so much more to justify. Given the size of the company and
talent within it, there could be so much more impressive motherboards
being cranked out - it boggles the mind as to why there has either been
very little effort and thought put into this product or the engineers
have shot so far off the mark they're stuck in orbit.

However while it does not particularly innovate it does does offer a
broad range of general features, it overclocks pretty well, it has
oodles of PCI-Express to play with for either CrossFire or servers and
the onboard buttons and two digit LED POST readout are useful, but I'm
struggling to find more to complement about it.

There are so many little things left out that just aren't checked - the
blue PCI-Express x16 slots are too far apart for normal CrossFire
connectors and Foxconn doesn't include its own ones. In the end, we had
to use specially long //Asus ones and we doubt that many end users have
the spare resources that we do in the office. Continuing, there is the
SATA port incompatibility, the MOSFET heatsinks getting just too hot
under extended, high power load and the continually bad audio
implementation.

It has to be said that Foxconn's team in the UK were extremely helpful
and supportive with our problems and even sent us another board to check
our results, just in case the one we had wasn't working //quite right.
However, the intermodular distortion and clipping that were continual
'features' of the onboard audio and the waveform just isn't like what
we're used to seeing. We tried reinstalling the drivers, reformatting
and starting again and the new board but nothing could cure the issue.
On paper the Realtek chipset has some fantastic features, it's just not
working right on the A79A-S./ *

*Cheers guys!

Tim Smalley
www.bit-tech.net