NVIDIA's nForce4 Ultra chipset keeps on winning the hearts of PC enthusiasts. Its popularity is growing up as there appear more mainboard models; products on this chipset are coming out now from over a dozen manufacturers among which there are some really interesting individuals. Today we will take a closer look at a product from one very interesting mainboard manufacturer like that. I am talking about the WinFast NF4UK8AA-8EKRS model from Foxconn.

The name of this mainboard can already provoke some mild amusement in you. We don't mean the brevity and expressiveness of the name, which you will most probably learn very quickly, but rather the “WinFast?brand that is usually seen on products from Leadtek, a graphics card manufacturer. So, whence comes this borrowing? Seems like we've got a pretty scandal here, haven't we?

It turns out, however, that there's nothing wrong in Foxconn's using the “WinFast?trademark. You may remember that until recently Leadtek used to offer mainboards along with graphics cards, but it was Foxconn that was the actual manufacturer of those mainboards. So, Foxconn's mainboards can be regarded as direct descendants of Leadtek's ones, which enjoyed a success in their times, by the way. That said, it's quite natural for Foxconn to use the WinFast brand. As for the legal implications, there are no problems here, either. You may not know it, but Leadtek is an affiliate company of Foxconn's. Thus, there's no sensation or scandal about the name.

Now that we've cleared up the relations between Foxconn and Leadtek and their trademarks, we can get closer to the WinFast NF4UK8AA-8EKRS mainboard our test lab has recently received.