Nvidia hops into bed with Foxconn

This is how the its cooperative relationship withe Nvidia was born, as Foxconn plans to introduce its Nforce 590 SLI enthusiast board. Its goal is to show off all the hardware and software features of the upcoming chipset. Let's call it an enhanced reference board. The board is naturally socket AM2 and it will be manufactured, sold and supported by Foxconn.

The board supports socket AM2 CPUs, has four DDR 2 memory slots, six SATA ports, two PCIe 16X, single PCIe1X, single PCIe 4X and two PCI slots. It also comes with two firewire ports, two gigabit LAN cards, six rare USB 2.0 ports and four USB ports on headers. The board has six PCB layers and has LED diagnostic display. It could get very popular with reviewers.

All these things were inside of Nvidia's presentation leaked at techpowerup.com but subsequently downed at the behest of the graphics chip designer.

The board should be ready for the big launch at Computex. µ