Foxconn moved into the enthusiast and gaming motherboard segment a year ago with one of the first NVIDIA nForce 590 SLI boards in the market, the C51XEM2AA. At that time, Foxconn was said to have closely worked with NVIDIA on the design of the board, which also marked the beginning of NVIDIA's designed-to-order reference platforms. NVIDIA revived the concept when they launched the nForce 680i SLI chipset, selling complete reference motherboards to OEM partners, leading to the existence of two types of boards in the market, those that are "Designed by NVIDIA" such as the ECS PN2-SLI2+ and the custom engineered ones like the ASUS Striker Extreme or Gigabyte's GA-N680SLI-DQ6.



Link: HardwareZone