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Foxconn WinFast 6150K8MA Mainboard What you get The Foxconn 6150K8MA box itself was far from a big thing. This is mainly because the board measures only 242mm square. Now that's what I call a micro ATX board. Also in the box were IDE ribbon cables, a SATA cable, I/O plate, a two connection SATA power adapter, S-Video expansion bracket, driver/manual CD, RAID driver floppy and a Quick Install Guide.
The Board When you look at the Foxconn 6150K8MA board there is no mistaking this for anything other than a micro ATX board. Measuring a mere 242 x 242mm square, its orange PCB footprint begs to be the base of a custom small form factor machine.
The socket area offers plenty of room for the 939 pin Athlon 64 processor of your choice. Capacitor placement and the relative clear area around the socket virtually guarantee no problems with aftermarket coolers should the end user go that route. The Northbridge, aka the GeForce 6150 in this case, splits a lot of the work load with its Southbridge counterpart, the nForce 430. More on these chipsets shortly. First the physical presentation and layout. Notice the oversized aluminum passive cooler on the chipset. Measuring 50 x 32 x 28mm, this cooler has lots of surface area to keep things cool and being passive... keep things quiet. Between the Northbridge cooler and the I/O plate is the four pin 12v AUX power connector. Speaking of power connectors, the Foxconn 6150K8MA sports only two 3-pin power headers. One at the board's top between the socket and DIMM slots and the other between the Northbridge and I/O plate.
Still looking at the layout, Foxconn has done their home work. Four DDR DIMM slots supporting up to 1 GB of DDR400 each are lined up parallel to the I/O plate. Just behind the DIMMs is the 24 pin ATX power connector, floppy connector as well as the primary and secondary IDE channels. A clean tight layout.
Moving down to the lower right corner we find four SATA/300 posts which supports RAID 0, 1, 0+1 and 5. Below this, along the bottom edge are the panel connectors and the internal USB connections for USB1 and USB2. It's a bit odd that the USB headers are not color coded as we've seen Foxconn do in the past. In this same picture, the passive aluminum cooler covering the Southbridge MCP chipset is hard to miss. This cooler is much smaller than the one on the Northbridge and measures only 30 x 30 x 15mm.
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