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Gigabyte GA-F2A85X-UP4 FM2 Motherboard Review: Overkill for Trinity?
Results: HD Tach HD and USB 3.0
HD Tach Hard Drive
HD Tach is getting a bit old and is no longer updated, but it is still a fairly consistent benchmark for this type of testing. A non-system 1TB drive was used for this testing.
Here we see the opposite of the SiSoft tests in terms of SATA 6G performance. The Asus part is just slightly faster overall than the Gigabyte unit. The differences are minimal, but consistent.
HD Tach USB
This test was done using the Sharkoon USB 3.0 HD dock and the aforementioned non-system WD Caviar Black 1TB drive.
Again we see some interesting results. The Gigabyte board was much slower in burst reads, but was faster overall in average throughput. This is using the built-in USB 3.0 controller on the A85X and not the ASMedia/Etron unit.
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Nice board for FM2. One of the best I have seen. Good job Gigabyte. No AMD you need to make a monster chip for the FM2 socket. Maybe drop the Gpu part and pack more cores. a 6 core fm2 would be sweet
I think a Matx version with similar features and a slightly lower price tag would have made more sense.
Full Atx for an apu is hard to understand.
But I do like it overall, just too bad Trinity really can't take advantage of anything in the OC department.
nice board, hopefully it will work with kaveri.
Looks like a good and solid motherboard but i lean more towards Asus plus if you get the F2A85-V PRO FM2 AMD A85X you also receive a bonus Razer Kraken pro headset ! id say thats a sweet deal :)http://event.asus.com/au/2013/FM2/
This is what I plan on using on my next build. Love Gigabyte...
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No numbers? That makes this a sort of "general opinion" review?
Kind of like.. well...I like this one sort of better than that one?
Very strange.
I "kind of" wish I had the 5 minutes back.
I see multiple benchmark pages in the review... are you not seeing them?
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