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My test system consisted of the MI A88X-G45 motherboard with AMD A10-7850K APU, a Noctua NH-L12 cooler and 16GB of dual channel AMD R9 DDR3-2400MHz memory.
Other parts of the system were a 500GB Samsung 840 EVO SSD (£216) and a Be quiet! Straight Power 400W PSU (£59.99).
I ran a selection of benchmark tests on the MSI A88X-G45 Gaming using three different settings.
First Set: default speeds with the APU at 3.7GHz that boosts to 4GHz with the memory running at 1866MHz.
Second Set: OC Genie Gear 1 with the APU at 4.25GHz and the memory at 2166MHz.
Third Set: I used Gear 2 with the APU at 4.5GHz and the memory at its full speed of 2400MHz.
It is worth emphasizing that I didn't make any changes to the BIOS so the initial PC build was very quick and the configuration was as simple as I could have hoped.
I suffered just one single problem when Media Espresso crashed during the final test with hardware acceleration disabled. That is a minor problem as you wouldn't have much reason to use that particular piece of software without hardware acceleration.
Great looking board, bit costly when most seem to be £30 less, but I guess if you wanted the best for your overclocking this is the one to get. Id rather get FX though for games.
Everyone is making red and black boards now, all look the same – I wish they would all have their own styles like they did in the past. I dont even like Red and black ! (apart from my super hero costume)
Seems like they are targeting the wrong market with the board. I dont know anyone who wants a 7850 and three graphics card slots! AMD lovers go for 8350 FX with graphics cards like that.