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The Asus UEFI is as good as we had hoped, with a vast array of settings in easily accessible positions.
We had a very good experience with this bios, even when pushing the system hard with standard AMD cooling.
We managed to get the system to 3.25ghz (125mhz bus) without any increased voltage settings. The system wouldn't validate, even at reference clocks, but you can see the hardware specifications over here. With extra voltage (1.48V), we could get the system booting at 3.6ghz, although A6-3650 temperatures would rise to 75c which is not healthy long term – improved cooling would be needed. We would also experience some random issues with USB 3.0 devices vanishing at random so we settled on a 650mhz overclock at 3.25ghz.
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?