On the bottom left hand corner of the Foxconn A690GM2MA-RS2H motherboard, we find the expansion slots. Pickings are pretty slim because this is a microATX board; just a PCI Express x1 slot, PCI Express x16 (for videocards) and two 32 bit PCI slots. There are audio ports at the bottom of the motherboard and a four pin PWM fan connector for the CPU heatsink.

The right hand corner of the motherboard is busiest. We see the three green USB headers, four Serial ATA II channels, the front panel I/O connector and the clear CMOS jumper at the edge of the motherboard. There's also an onboard speaker which will sound if you run into trouble. The AMD SB600 southbridge is tucked away under a passively cooled aluminum heatsink.

The Foxconn A690GM2MA-RS2H supports four DDR2 memory slots which can be installed with up to 4GB of DDR2-800/667/533 Memory. To the right of those slots you'll find the main 24 pin ATX power connector and a IDE and floppy drive connector.

There is a fair amount of space around the AMD Socket AM2 CPU socket, which is good for large quietly cooled processor heatsinks. The heatsink that cools the AMD 690G chipset is compact, and does the job well.

Overclocking test results are coming next, how fast do you think PCSTATS can push this microATX Foxconn AMD690G motherboard? Let's find that out, right after the jump....