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We are a little disappointed with the BIOS included with the Platinum A75, especially after reviewing the Asus F1A75-M Pro which featured the impressive Asus UEFI setup.
Our sample of the motherboard featured a very early version of the BIOS which was slightly unstable so we updated it to the latest version before testing.
As you will glean from the screenshots below, the BIOS has all the basic features we could ask for but looks rather primitive when compared directly against the F1A75M-Pro.
Overclocking the Pure Platinum A75 has to be handled by increasing the baseclock. Using the multiplier to increase clock speeds seems to work, but the performance scores don't improve. AMD issued information regarding this a while ago which indicates that CPUz will indicate the bios multiplier value, even though it is basically locked to x29.
After some trial and error we managed to get the clock speed to 3.54 ghz via a 29×122 configuration. For complete stability we used the voltage settings above. We did manage to get the system posting at 3.67ghz but it wasn't prime stable regardless of the voltages we used. We would like to note that we experienced some random stability issues with various memory on this board when running at 1600mhz or higher.
Nice product. Good to see them getting outside gfx. they still make PSU.s right?
I think mini ITX makes more sense tbh. better for media center…….
Can anyone buy these cpus in the UK?
good enough product, but id prefer it if it was mini itx as I think the target audience will be wanting this. Asus mobo is better I think.
I have to say that I agree with the others. An ITX would have been a lot more suitable if, indeed this were being placed in an HTPC application.