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Hello everybody! That is TechnoKitchen and me, Katie Hot
Today we will review a modern motherboard for office use or for an inexpensive home PC
That is Foxconn H67MP-S, quite cheap motherboard with a price about 2600 roubles
It has many useful features 5 00:00:37,606 --> 00:00:45,930 Wide retail sales are to start at the end of May. It supports all 1155 socket CPUs.
All these CPUs have embedded graphics, so you don't need to worry about a graphics card. We'll play games a bit later.
The motherboard has low price and the package is minimalistic.
It includes only essential I/O panel, Driver CD, user manual, quick start guide and 2 SATA cables.
But look how big and detailed is the quick start guide.
It includes all needed information in several languages including Russian.
The motherboard has HDMI interface with sound output, two USB 3.0 interfaces and 8 channel sound.
There's a 4 pin connector for CPU power compatible with different power supply units.
We checked support of 4GB memory units - they worked fine.
There are 3 internal USB interfaces on the board, it allows to connect up to 6 devices.
2 of 6 SATA interfaces marked with yellow color meet SATA III specifications.
COM and LPT interfaces are available on the board as well, but cables are not included.
Floppy and IDE interfaces weren't added.
You won't find PCI interface on the board, the vendor preferred the cheaper PCI Express.
BIOS flash drive can be easily taken out of the motherboard and reprogrammed or changed in case of breakage.
Here we have AMI BIOS. It has the new Aptio interface with high quality fonts.
It doesn't have any overclocking settings for CPU or embedded graphics.
In the health section you will wind CPU temperature, system temperature, speed of both fans and voltage levels.
Smart Fan Function makes cooler work quieter.
You can also get the system information in Windows with featured Fox One software.
The embedded graphics core isn't very powerful, but let us play Unreal Tournament 2004 smoothly
with the highest resolution and quality settings.
We went further and decided to find out the difference between this board speed and our high-end test station.
Look, the competition goes between the cheapest Sandy Bridge without overclocking and our fancy overclocked CPU.
We ran tests and - oh, no! - there is almost no difference. We lost only 1.5-2 fps in Mafia 2 and 1-2 fps in Metro 2033.
So, the graphics card is the most important for a gaming PC and the CPU doesn't matter if it belongs to a modern platform.
This conclusion works only for middle-end graphics cards. High-end 2 core graphics card need high-end processors.
It turned out that the motherboard is good both for office computers and middle-end gaming stations.
Or you can make an excellent media PC.
We give our silver award to this motherboard.
Your host today was Katie Hot. Bye!