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For our tests, we used a Thermaltake Contac29 to cool the AMD Vision A8-3850 APU and used a NZXT Hale90 750W power supply for the system.
Test System
Motherboard: Sapphire Pure Platinum A75
APU: AMD Vision A8-3850 2.9 GHz
Memory: 4 GB (2x 2GB) Corsair XMS3 1600 MHz
Power Supply: NZXT Hale90 750W
Cooler: Thermaltake Contac29
Thermal Paste: Arctic Cooling MX-3
Drive: Crucial M4 256 GB
Operating System: Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit
Graphics (APU Only): AMD Radeon HD 6550D (512 MB Allocated)
Graphics (Dual Graphics Mode for real world gaming tests): AMD Radeon HD 6690D2 (6550D + AMD Radeon 6670) – tests in this mode are listed ‘DG’
Other Hardware
Viewsonic VX2260WM 1920 x 1080 Monitor
Software:
SiSoft Sandra 2011 SP3
Cinebench R11.5
3DMark 11
3DMark Vantage
PCMark 7
CrystalDiskMark
Cyberlink PowerDVD 11
Cyberlink MediaEspresso 6
DiRT 3
F1 2010
Dead Space 2
Call of Duty: Black Ops
All tests are averaged from a series of five separate runs. This ensures that no abnormalities can creep into the final, published results.
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.