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Foxconn WinFast 760GXK8MB Motherboard Review
Author: Gabriel Torres
Type: Reviews Last Updated: June 27, 2005
Page: 10 of 10
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Conclusions

The 3D performance of SiS 760GX is not comparable to entry-level video cards like GeForce MX 4000, GeForce 4 MX 460 and GeForce FX 5200. On the other hand, we didn’t have other socket 754 motherboards with on-board video to compare this one to, so we cannot say if the SiS 760GX performance level is good or bad compared to its competitors.

We were very impressed with the performance of Foxconn WinFast 760GXK8MB when installing a “real” video card on it: its performance was similar to high-end socket 754 motherboards. This means that you can buy this motherboard and, in the future, install an AGP video card on it to have a performance similar to high-end motherboards, paying much less (of course you won’t have all features provided by high-end motherboards such as RAID, more than three PCI slots, Firewire ports, etc – at least this motherboard already offers two Serial ATA ports).

We were also impressed by the use of Japanese electrolytic capacitors, which is not common on a low-end motherboard. Foxconn impressed us on that one.

This motherboard can be a good solution for offices and users that don’t want to run 3D games and are looking for a cheap motherboard which can have a regular VGA installed in the future. Our guess is that socket 754 motherboards with on-board video will become more popular in the near future, since socket 462 is being phased out by AMD, and Sempron based on socket 754 platform will replace Athlon XP and Duron as the entry level CPU from AMD.

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