FM2 motherboard has good value and some useful features;
however, you will have to do without SATA3.
Asus F2A55-M
This MicroATX motherboard uses new FM2 socket and AMD A55
chipset in low level. And of course, comparing with A75 and A85X that is more
high-ranking, it has some disadvantages. The main thing is that it lacks
support for USB3 or SATA3. Asus overcame disadvantage of USB3 with AS Media
controller in the third position. Consequently, you will have 2 gates of USB3
and USB4. But it doesn’t have USB3 connector.
Lacking USB3 is the big problem. Although SATA2 is fast
enough to every mechanical hard disk drive, you need SATA3 to take full
advantage of the fastest SSD drive.
You also have 4 memory slots so that you can have 64 GB DDR3
RAM in total. Because it is the main motherboard – micro ATX, it doesn’t have
many places to widen, but besides 2 PCI-E x16 slots, you have PCI-E x1 slot. However,
PCI-E x1 will be blocked if you set up graphic card.
A-series processor of AMD has strong graphic chip that is
set up availably. Motherboard of main circuit has outputs: VGA, DVI and HDMI to
take full advantage of it. You can use all of 3 gates to run 3 screens at the
same time. Panel in the back is equipped well for sound; it has 6 analogue
outputs for surround 7.1 sound and one optical S/PDIF output.
In tests, we realized that AMD A10-5800K processor and 4GB
of DDR3 1600 MHz memory had 72 grades in total. It is suitable to preliminary
results that we saw from a main motherboard with the leading A85X chipset.
Therefore, chipset that is cheaper seems not to affect efficiency. We used OC
Tuner in BIOS to increase system from 3.8 GHz to 4.3 GHz and help it gain 77
grades in total. However, burning processor up will cost much at this speed.
We see the remarkable increase in 3D efficiency when it
combines with AMD Radeon HD 6570 and runs in Cross Fire mode.
We see the
remarkable increase in 3D efficiency.
F2A55 of Asus has good technological characteristics. We
prefer SATA3 with the role of foundation for 1 PC that uses micro ATX with
efficiency to play game. This motherboard is a good bargain.
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Information
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Price: $94, including VAT
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Provider: www.scan.com
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Ranking: 4/5
Technological
characteristics
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Processor Socket : FM2
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Chipset: AMD A55 FCH
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Memory slot: 4 DDR3 1066/1333/1600(OC)/1866(OC)/2000(OC)/2133(OC)/2200(OC)/2250(OC)/2400(OC)
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Widen: 1 PCI Express x16 slot, 1 PCI Express x1 slot, 1 PCI
slot , 6 SATA2 gates
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Warranty: RTB 2 years
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Total grade: 72
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Encoder of video: 70
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Dirt 3: 35.2fps
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Dirt 3 (integrated): 45.5fps
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