Official ASRock A75M-ITX Discussion

[Steve]

Hey all,

I've ordered up the new A75M-ITX for a review, along with an A8-3850, and should have it in a week or so. I'll have the review up for you as quick as I can. Anything special you'd like me to cover?

Also, please use this tread to share any other thoughts or opinions you may have on the new ASRock A75M-ITX mini-ITX motherboard.

[flopticalcube Profile]

APUs are great ideas but they need to be powerful enough. Given that the A8-3850 has an imbedded Radeon HD6550D I would expect graphics performance to be about the same as a desktop 6550, i.e. not great. I would like to see some heat/power numbers however and performance when playing HD trailers. Also see if RAM speed affects gaming performance since the RAM is shared DDR3 rather than dedicated DDR5.

[Steve]

That would be an interesting comparison, but I cant find a desktop HD 6550. Probably because the HD 6550M exists for the mobile market. NewEgg does have HD 6450's and HD 6570's. I'll have to compare the specs and speeds and see which would be the closest match. Be nice to compare it to an Nvidia card as well.

[flopticalcube Profile]

A 5450 would be about the same as well.

[yaxattax Profile]

Steve, what are the BIOS options for undervolting or underclocking, if any?

[Jamie Profile]

I'd be pretty interested in the dual graphics part of it.

i.e is the 6670 worth adding what the difference in power requirements and benchmarking is and how hard it is to keep cool.

Also how the the APU takes overclocking


NB/ Not that I've got a similar build going on in any way

[Steve]

The APU and the motherboard showed up yesterday afternoon. I'll spend Monday and Tuesday playing with it and get some preliminary results up in this thread. I'll have the full article up on the blog by the weekend.

[Steve]

I just ordered a single-slot XFX HD 6670 (DDR5) graphics card so I can play around with the Dual Graphics and see if it really makes that much of a difference.

And if it completely tanks, at least I will have finally gotten a chance for that single slot build I keep talking about.

Wonder how the A8 would like a single slot HD 6850 to run with?

[Jamie Profile]

I just ordered a single-slot XFX HD 6670 (DDR5) graphics card so I can play around with the Dual Graphics and see if it really makes that much of a difference.

And if it completely tanks, at least I will have finally gotten a chance for that single slot build I keep talking about.

Wonder how the A8 would like a single slot HD 6850 to run with?

I've got mine sat in a box on my desk, shame the case / psu aren't here yet.

As for the 6850 I like your thinking that's plan B if dual graphics don't cut it (I expect they will for most games at acceptable graphic levels)


J