ASUS F1A75-I Deluxe Motherboard Review (with A6-3650)

1. Introduction2. ASUS F1A75-I Deluxe Motherboard3. ASUS F1A75-I Deluxe Motherboard (Super High Res Gallery)4. ASUS F1A75-I Deluxe Motherboard (Bios & Overclocking)5. Testing Methodology6. Synthetic: SiSoft Sandra7. Synthetic: CineBench R11.5 64 bit8. Synthetic: Unigine Heaven Benchmark9. Synthetic: PCMark 710. Synthetic: 3DMark 1111. Image Quality: HQV Benchmark 2.012. Real World: BluRay Playback Performance13. Real World: MKV Playback Performance14. Real World: Flash HD Performance15. Real World: Media Encoding16. Data Throughput: SSD Performance17. Gaming: Alien V Predator18. Gaming: Dead Island19. Gaming: F1 201120. Gaming: From Dust21. Closing Thoughts22. View All Pages

We normally test A75 motherboards with the A8-3850 processor, but today we are using the A6-3650 which is a less expensive, slower clocked design (£85 from Amazon). For a total of £200 inc vat, you can build a very capable media center around these two components. For another £100 you can pick up the excellent Sapphire HD6790 graphics card which we are using today, ideal for a low power drain media center system. Adding a power supply, chassis, small HDD and some memory would bring the price to around the £500 mark.

As it is so straightforward to overclock this processor with the ASUS F1A75-I Deluxe, we are testing at overclocked speeds, unless otherwise stated.

Processor: AMD A6-3650 Processor @ 3.25ghz
Cooling: Reference AMD cooler
Graphics: Sapphire HD6790
Motherboard: ASUS F1A75-I Deluxe
Chassis: Silverstone Raven 3.
Power Supply: Corsair 550W
Memory: Corsair 1600mhz memory.
Storage: Intel Patriot Wildfire 120GB SSD / Patriot Pyro 120GB
Monitors: Dell Ultrasharp U2410 Rev A00.

Software:
Windows 7 Enterprise 64 bit

Unigine Heaven Benchmark.
PCMark 7.
3DMark 11.
Fraps Professional.
Steam Client.
FurMark.
HQV 2.0 Software.

Technical Monitoring and Test Equipment:
Nikon D3X with R1C1 kit
Olympus E-PL1
Keithley Integra unit
Thermal Diodes
Raytek Laser Temp Gun 3i LSRC/MT4 Mini Temp

Games:
Alien V Predator.
From Dust.
Dead Island.
F1 2011.
HomeFront.

Above: Have Asus struck a deal with Google? It certainly looks like it.

All the latest BIOS updates and drivers are used during testing. We perform generally under real world conditions, meaning KitGuru tests games across five closely matched runs and then average out the results to get an accurate median figure. If we use scripted benchmarks, they are mentioned on the relevant page.

Some game descriptions and information are taken with courtesy from Wikipedia.

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