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The Foxconn H55MX-S has a decent feature set for a previous generation board, despite lacking USB3.0 and SATA 6Gb/s connectivity. Those who are looking to build a media system shouldn't be put off by the lack of these two features, though, as SATA 3GB/s should provide enough bandwidth to max out transfer speeds with large storage drives and mid range SSDs. For those who require USB3.0 connectivity, this can be easily added using an PCI Express expansion card.
The overclocking potential of this board is extremely poor thanks to the limited number of BIOS settings available. There is a software utility that can be used for overclocking the system but this isn't really worthwhile as we were only able to achieve a paltry 140MHz overclock which won't yield much of a performance improvement. This is the reason we didn't include any overclocked results for our testing and benchmarks today.
Due to the extremely limited overclocking potential, we would find it hard to recommend the Foxconn H55MX-S unless the price was very attractive. It's not widely available online but there are a number of stores such as CCL who are asking £62 for the motherboard. Considering you can buy the Gigabyte H55-M-UD2H motherboard for £63 at YOYOTech, we find it very difficult to recommend the Foxconn H55MX-S as the Gigabyte board has more RAM slots, better connectivity and a much more attractive design.
KitGuru says: A solid motherboard for those who don't plan to overclock but there are better competitor products out there for the same (or slightly less) amount of money.
Yeah that doesnt look to be that good. the board layout, sata ports etc are badly designed. Fair score.
I dont think overclocking is that big a deal on a product like this, but there are weaknesses in quite a few other areas which are well noted.
Seems ok for a basic media center, but the pricing is putting it against better products.
Foxconn make a lot of products for other companies but this isn’t one of their best, thats a cert.
Poor value for money for such a stripped out board.
If they dropped the price to 50 quid then it would make more sense.
The bios needs an overhaul. its silly for them to offer overclocking in software and not in the bios.
This harware is OK for a media PC because you don’t need Sandy Bridge? What about transcoding? A media PC needs Sandy Bridge the most, for transcoding and reduced power dissipation. HD media streaming is actually very challenging for hardware.
aaaah i cant make my xfx 5830 work on this motherboard, my graphic card is fine id tested on my friend motherboard and it work perfect, i hate this motherboard
what bios version is used on this test?