The Box art shows a 3D design pattern on a plain black background. Sleek and interesting, without the usual 'gamer' over the top branding. This reflects the audience this product is pitched at, your home/family or even office PC. Some features of the A75M are clearly on display too, supporting the AMD A4, A6 and A8 series APUs, 1866MHz memory, dual graphics, A75 chipset, solid capacitors and EuP ready.
The Foxconn A75M packaging.
On the reverse side there is a comprehensive list of features. Some of the most impressive features included on this motherboard is to do with the BIOS. Including BIOS protect which is software and hardware dual BIOS as well as a quick BIOS update function and BIOS Rescue. Another worthy mention is that ALL power delivery systems are digital, much like ASUS's DIGI+ VRMs. A major concern I have with some details listed are of various overclocking features, which, at least on this sample, do not seem to exist on testing.
Underside of packaging.
Packaging bundle was a little light with just two amber sata cables and I/O backplate. (Driver CD and Manual is likely to arrive with full retail packaging.)
Light on the bundle, I think some more of those attractive amber SATA cables would go down well.
The board itself is neatly laid out in a familiar pattern with no space wasted on legacy features such as IDE, which thankfully has been almost completely phased out. Design aesthetics are questionable, with a dark blue PCB, much like GIGABYTE's latest coming, topped with no less than three different hues of yellow, white, black, blue and a red logo thrown into the mix. It is a shame that Foxconn haven't developed on the black/Yellow design for AMD motherboards and black/Red for Intel motherboards, though understandably, this is likely to be used in a system where design aesthetics aren't going to be appreciated. Lack of non right-angled SATA ports too is a shame, though not a deal breaker.
The Foxconn A75M mATX motherboard.
Let's move on to take a closer look at this motherboards features.
