"While Foxconn certainly isn't the first name that normally comes to an enthusiasts' mind while shopping for a motherboard, its motherboards are certainly becoming more common. Foxconn's A79A-S certainly looks like a product that just might gain them some attention in a market crowded by ASUS and Gigabyte.

... The Foxconn A79A-S is based off of AMD's 790FX chipset which is nothing new around here as it's been around about as long as the AMD Phenom processor has. However this time Foxconn has added something new to the 790FX in the form of AMD's SB750 south bridge. Normally a south bridge isn't all that exciting but AMD added a new feature called ACC or Auto Clock Calibration. What this feature does in a nutshell is increase Phenom overclocking headroom by 100MHz-300MHz. How exactly this is achieved on a technical level is difficult to know as AMD is keeping the details on how this is accomplished vague at this point."