Foxconn today announced its first motherboard catered towards the enthusiast and overclocking crowd – the MARS. The Foxconn MARS features Intel’s P35 Express chipset and is the first of the company’s new Quantum Force model lineup. Foxconn claims to tune the MARS specifically for overclocking with posted front-side bus speeds of 575 MHz, or 2300 MHz effectively.

Foxconn names the overclocking tuned BIOS the Gladiator BIOS, a unique feature to the company’s Quantum Force series. The Gladiator BIOS allows CPU voltage adjustments in 0.0125-volts up to 1.6-volts, DRAM voltage, north bridge voltage, south bridge voltage and a couple other fine tuning voltage settings.

The Foxconn MARS supports all Intel LGA775 processors with front-side bus speeds up to 1333 MHz, officially. The board supports DDR2 memory with speeds up to 1066 MHz.

Foxconn equips the board with two physical PCIe x16 slots for compatibility with ATI CrossFire multi-GPU technology. However, one of the physical PCIe x16 slots feature four lanes, due to chipset limitations. Additionally, the Foxconn MARS features two PCIe x1 and three PCI slots.

Other notable features of the Foxconn MARS include one e.SATA, six SATA 3.0 Gbps, Firewire, 12 USB 2.0, one PATA, 7.1-channel high definition audio and Gigabit LAN.

Expect the Foxconn MARS to hit retail next month. Pricing information is unavailable, but expect to pay a premium, as with most enthusiast and overclocking catered products.

Source from DailyTech