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The ASUS F1A75-I Deluxe Motherboard is another great design from ASUS and a fantastic first choice for a small media center system.
The bundle is impressive and includes everything for a system build, including cables, wireless antenna, wireless USB 2.0 receiver and a cool remote with dual function capabilities.
The UEFI bios is first class and allows for considerable overclocking capabilities in the right hands. We were able to push the board just past 3.5ghz with the A6-3650 although we could randomly lose USB connectivity from time to time. Keeping it at reference voltages at 3.25ghz proved the most stable and easily achievable by a wide audience with minimal effort on reference air cooling.
The F1A75-I Deluxe is not a budget motherboard, priced around £115 in the UK. That said, the Mini ITX design and fully loaded implementation will appeal to a wide enthusiast audience who want to build a low profile media center without compromising on capabilities.
There is no doubt this product is fully loaded and we have to mention the stability over the course of the last week. If we kept the overclock to a reasonable level, we never experienced a BSOD or random issue.
Pros:
- overclocks well.
- good bundle.
- UEFI is very impressive.
- mini ITX.
- stable.
Cons:
- small price premium over other A75 boards.
- a couple more fan headers would have been nice.
Kitguru says: This is certainly a quality product, and ideal for a media center system.
Excellent, I love mini itx. dont often get boards that overclock well in this sector however.
Asus rock, but they didnt give me much help with my last board when it failed. went through a whole load of crap with the dealer. will stick with amazon from now on as their support system is second to none.
Good review, they make nice boards. I do think this is overpriced, its £30 more than the gigabyte Z68 you reviewed last week……. doesnt seem to make sense for A75.
Good overclock. Intel can’t overclock. not i3 anyway 😉
Thanks for the terrific review.
Can all three on-board video heads (DVI, HDMI, and DisplayPort) be used simultaneously, or does triple-monitor action require adding a graphics card?