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The A75M-ITX is supplied in a small box which reflects the compact nature of the motherboard within. ASRock have chosen to give the box a brushed metal effect livery which looks surprisingly good considering it's printed onto cardboard. The top is unusually sparse for a motherboard box, only featuring the product name in the centre alongside a few small badges along the bottom edge which advertise the most prominent features of the board.
Turning the box over reveals a detailed breakdown of all the features and specifications of the motherboard , repeated in a few different languages. They also provide some performance comparisons between different configurations of APU and discrete graphics.
Inside, ASRock include a reasonable bundle with the motherboard which includes a software and driver CD, a comprehensive manual, an I/O shield, two SATA data cables and a 3.5mm audio cable. We would have liked to see a couple more SATA cables being included, though, as a lot of people will be using this motherboard to build a HTPC where a number of storage drives are likely to be employed.
Decent motherboard. I doubt people buying one of these will want to overclock much anyway. no need with a media center.
I have this board, I didn’t get it overclocked at all and gave up. Its a good board though.
afternoon everyone all the best to yous for 2012
alfred beilin
Cool review, one thing missing though! Please add the results of just using the 6670, I really want to see the benifit, I know there are other reviews that does this, but I want to see if it improves as the drivers gets more up to date.
But yeah if I was building an HTPC today, I would either get this or Asus Llano board(that actually has Wifi) along with a low profile 6670, you could really make a small machine pack quite a punch.