Back in April, we reviewed Foxconn's entree into the world of enthusiast motherboards -- the Foxconn 975X7AA. While it was a solid, stable, and overclockable performer, we expressed concern over its DDR2-667 memory clock lock. Foxconn promised that that issue would be alleviated in an upcoming revision of the board.

Today, that revision has made its way to our lab. The Foxconn 975X7AB not only improves on the memory clock limitations of the previous 975X7AA, but also provides official support for the brand-spanking new series of Core 2 Duo/Extreme processors.

Apart from that, nothing has changed going from the "AA" to the "AB" model. For those of you just joining us, the next page will give you a quick-and-dirty recap of the story behind Foxconn's 975X7A series, as well as the Intel 975X chipset. Next stop ...