ASUS F1A75-I Deluxe Review – Llano and Mini-ITX
by Ian Cutress on October 1, 2011 5:30 PM EST- Posted in
- Motherboards
- Asus
- A75
Test Setup
Processor |
AMD Llano A6-3650 4 Cores, 4 Threads, 2.6 GHz |
Motherboards | ASUS F1A75-I Deluxe |
Cooling | Corsair H50-1 |
Power Supply | Silverstone 1000W 80 PLUS Silver |
Memory |
G.Skill RipjawsX DDR3-1866 9-10-9 28 2x4GB Kit 1.5V Patriot Viper Xtreme DDR3-2133 9-11-9 27 2x4 GB Kit 1.65V |
Memory Settings | DDR3-1866 |
Video Cards |
XFX HD 5850 1GB ECS GTX 580 1536MB |
Video Drivers |
Catalyst 10.12 / 11.8 NVIDIA Drivers 280.26 |
Hard Drive |
Micron RealSSD C300 256GB OCZ Vertex3 240GB |
Optical Drive | LG GH22NS50 |
Case | Open Test Bed - CoolerMaster Lab V1.0 |
Operating System | Windows 7 64-bit |
SATA Testing |
Micron RealSSD C300 256GB OCZ Vertex3 240GB |
USB 2/3 Testing | Patriot 64GB SuperSonic USB 3.0 |
As part of our test setup, we are slowly migrating to newer drivers for our discrete GPU tests, as well as updating the tests appropriately. However, as it is only fair to test like for like, comparisons will only be made with results achieved with the same drivers.
Comparison to Other Reviews
Where applicable, the results in this review are directly compared to the following chipsets and boards which we have reviewed previously:
Note: The main comparison point for the ASUS F1A75-I Deluxe for us is the ASRock A75 Extreme6 we have already tested. As a result of that review, which was run with DDR3-1333 settings to compare to Sandy Bridge boards, I have been asked to run future Llano reviews at DDR3-1866, which Llano supports natively. For logistical reasons, there is also a CPU discrepancy, where today we are using an A6-3650 (2.6 GHz, 320 SP IGP), and in the A75 Extreme6, an A8-3850 (2.9 GHz, 400 SP IGP) was used. In analysing the results, these factors will be taken into account.
Power Consumption
Power consumption was tested on the system as a whole with a wall meter connected to the power supply, while in a dual GPU configuration. This method allows us to compare the power management of the UEFI and the board to supply components with power under load, and includes typical PSU losses due to efficiency. These are the real world values that consumers may expect from a typical system (minus the monitor) using this motherboard.
The only board to compare the F1A75-I Deluxe to is the A75 Extreme6 board I reviewed a few months ago. Both boards perform similarly.
CPU Temperatures
With most users running their boards on purely default BIOS settings, we are running at default settings for the CPU temperature tests. This is, in our outward view, an indication of how well (or how adventurous) the vendor has their BIOS configured on automatic settings. With a certain number of vendors not making CPU voltage, turbo voltage or LLC options configurable to the end user, which would directly affect power consumption and CPU temperatures at various usage levels, we find the test appropriate for the majority of cases. This does conflict somewhat with some vendors' methodology of providing a list of 'suggested' settings for reviewers to use. But unless those settings being implemented automatically for the end user, all these settings do for us it attempt to skew the results, and thus provide an unbalanced 'out of the box' result list to the readers who will rely on those default settings to make a judgment.
Compared to the board we have tested, the F1A75 Deluxe does well on CPU temperatures, even compared to the low powered Fusion boards with passive cooling, and the Sandy Bridge boards.
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fromage2323 - Tuesday, November 22, 2011 - link
i just want to say i cant get the remote to work on win7 64-bit no matter what i do. drivers install automatically just fine but it does nothing. same result on two different systems so far. other than that i love the board.