On first glance, the Foxconn P9657AA-8EKRS2H motherboard's layout is clean and thoughtful. The various ports and sockets have room to breathe, thanks to Foxconn, in the main, not adding a bunch of discrete controllers for added functionality. Rather, it's taken the P965 chipset's attributes and based a sensible, mid-priced board around it. The CPU area is uncluttered, thereby making heatsink installation the simple affair it should be. Alongside it, the 8-pin 12V connector's associated cabling can be tucked around the heatsink for neat assembly. Foxconn's taken into account the lack of CrossFire compatibility inherent in the P965 design and not aimed this board specifically at the enthusiast, as there's no second x16 electrical slot or myriad of cooling on chipset bridges.



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