Foxconn's Concerto board comes on a black/brown 6-layer PCB measuring the full 30x24cm ATX format. The layout that Foxconn has gone for is extremely impressive. The six SATA ports controlled by the
ICH10R Southbridge are located on the lower right hand edge of the board, stacked two upon two and rotated on the vertical; this keeping the cables free from any of the onboard slots or devices. Just below this are three momentary switches; one for Power On, one for Reset and one to clear the CMOS. The CPU itself is fed voltage through a
6-phase solid state voltage regulation system.
Foxconn has added into this board for the onboard graphics system a
DVI-I port along with a HDMI interface. Since the G45s IGP is capable of running these outputs, it’s good to see them actually being used.
Due to the very early nature of the
motherboard and the BIOS, overclocking was extremely poor. In fact, it
was extremely unstable above the 400MHz bus clock. 425MHz caused system crashes and refused to load Vista at all. The
X4100 GPU, while lacking any real gaming functions, it does
has a lot of hardware based encode and decode functions built into it. Furthermore, its new DVMT sharing manages memory much better than previous Intel chipsets, limiting the stress on the system memory and keeping more total memory for system tasks rather than just stripping off a chunk like nVidia or ATi IGPs do; this regardless of how much they actually need at the time.
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