The F1A75-V Pro will be ASUS' flagship model regarding AMD's FM1 APUs' Llano. Therefore it's able to score with a long featurelist. But first of all we will check if it is able to convince. 
The F1A75-V Pro will be ASUS' high end motherboard regarding AMDs' upcoming socket FM1. Therefore we're really curious what they've done from the layout and design perspective
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Specifications / Delivery
| CPU | AMD Socket FM1 A- Series/E2- Series |
| Chipset | AMD A75 FCH (Hudson D3) |
| Memory | Dual Channel DDR3, 4 x DIMM, Max. 64 GB DDR3, 1866/1600/1333/1066 Non-ECC,Un-buffered |
| Graphic |
Integrated HD 6000 Series Graphics in LIano APU
DirectX 11 HDMI/DVI/RGB/DisplayPort ports |
| Multi-GPU | 2-Way ATI CrossFireX |
| Slots | 2 x PCI-Express 2.0 x16 (x16, x4) 2 x PCI-Express 2.0 x1 3 x PCI |
| Audio | Realtek® ALC 892 8-Channel High Definition Audio CODEC |
| Storage | AMD A75 FCH (Hudson D3) chipset : 6 x SATA 6.0 Gb/s (RAID 0, 1, 10) ASMedia® PCIe SATA controller : 1 x SATA 6.0 Gb/s 1 x eSATA 6.0 Gb/s |
| I/O internal / Connectors | 1 x 24-pin ATX Power 1 x 8-pin ATX 12V Power 7 x SATA 6Gb/s 1 x CPU Fan Header 2 x System Fan Header 1 x Power Fan Header 1 x Front Panel Header 1 x Front Panel Audio Header 1 x S/PDIF Out 4 x USB 2.0/1.1 (Up to 8 front panel USB) 1 x USB 3.0/2.0 (Up to 2 front panel USB) 1 x IEEE 1394a 1 x Clear CMOS 1 x MemOK! 1 x TPU Switch 1 x EPU Switch |
| I/O external | 1 x PS/2-Keyboard / Mouse
1 x DVI-D 1 x D-Sub 1 x Display Port 1 x HDMI 1 x eSATA 6Gb/s 1 x LAN (RJ45) 4 x USB 3.0/2.0 2 x USB 2.0/1.1 1 x Optical S/PDIF 6 x Audio Jacks (Center / Subwoofer Speaker Out / Rear Speaker Out / Side Speaker Out / Line In / Line Out / Microphone) |
| Forfactor | ATX (30.5cm x 24.4cm) |
| BIOS | 32 Mb Flash ROM, UEFI BIOS, PnP, DMI v2.0, WfM2.0, SM BIOS V2.6, ACPI V2.0a Removable BIOS chip |
| Warranty | 3 years |
Regarding the delivery you'll find everything you need including a manual, two SATA3 cables, an ASUS' I/O Q-Shield, two ASUS Q-connectors (for the front panel) and the DVD with drivers and ASUS' software.
Features
| EPU | If you activate the EPU this chip monitors all possible voltages and clock speeds and automatically sets them to guarantee an energy efficient operation of you system. |
| TPU | As soon as one activates the TPU this chips monitors all possible voltages and clock speeds using the according software. The difference to the EPU is that TPU will provide as much performance as possible. Therefore it can increase clock speeds and voltages. |
| DIGI+ VRM | Meanwhile ASUS also provides its boards with digital power designs. Using the the right software, in this case ASUS DIGI+ VRM Utility it is not only possible to adjust voltages whilst being in Windows on can now also control impedances. |
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Layout
Already at a first glance the ASUS F1A75-V Pro looks very good with its harmonic design. The colors suite nicely and the different blue tones on a black PCB are calming. The layout itself is well thought and there is for example plenty of space around the CPU socket to install even todays largest CPU coolers.
ASUS equipped the F1A75-V Pro with a 6+2 phase current supply whereas the CPU can rely on six phases and the memory gets its own two phases. Furthermore ASUS implemented a digital power design which should emit less electromagnetic radiation than its analogue counterpart. Therefore ASUS claims that the system stability can be enhanced even further, especially during overclocking.
Totally you'll find four DIMM-slots on the F1A75-V Pro. Officially supported are DDR3-1866/1600/1333/1066 with up to 64 GByte capacity. The DIMM-slots are quite close to the CPU socket which might cause some compatibility problems with big coolers especially when you choose to install RAM with big heatspreaders.
Southbridge as well as the current converters are being held at adequate temperatures via a passive heatpipe cooling solution. The fact that the cooling blocks around the CPU socket aren't too big make it comfortable to install a big aircooler.
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Connectors and I/O
Totally ASUS provided the F1A75-V Pro with six angled SATA3 as well as one straigt SATA3 port which should be enough for any office PC or gaming system. Unfortunately you wont find a debug display which would be very useful if you should once have issues with one of the components in your system.
Totally you'll find five fan header on the F1A75-V Pro which is more than enough, to provide a well equipped midrange or high-end-system with fresh air. The fanheaders are located around the CPU socket as well as at the top edge of the mainboard.
Looking at the external connectors directly at the back-panel ASUS provided his motherboard with four USB 3.0/2.0 and two USB 2.0/1.1 ports, a PS/2 port combo, one eSATA ports, one gigabit ethernet port, a optical out as well as an analogue audio panel and an HDMI, a DVI, a VGA port and finally a display port.
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Test Setup
Hardware |
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| Motherboards |
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| Processor
Cooling System Thermal compound |
AMD A8
3850 AMD Phenom II 1090T BE Noctua NH-D14 Artic Silver Ceramique |
| Memory | 4 GB Mushkin Redline PC3-12800 6-8-6-24 1600 MHz 8-8-8-24 (Default) 1333 MHz 8-8-8-24 (SuperPi) 1333 MHz 7-7-7-21 (SuperPi) |
| Graphic card Driver |
Internal
graphics nVidia GTX 285 FW 197.45 |
| Hard Disk | Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 500 GByte |
| Power supply | Corsair HX850 (850 Watt) |
Benchmarks:
- 3DMark06: Default settings
- 3DMark Vantage: Default settings
- SiSoft Sandra: Sandra Lite 2011a (17.20) Default settings
- SuperPi: 1M and 32M
- WPrime: 32M and 1024M
Crysis (Benchmark CPU and GPU) |
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| Quality | Low |
| Resolution | 800x600 |
| No AA | |
| Demo Loop | 3 |
| Time of Delay | 9 |
| DX9 | Enable |
Street Fighter IV |
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| Display FPS | Disable |
| AntiAliasing | Without |
| Resolution | 800x600 |
| Refresh Rate | 60 Hz |
| V-Sync | Disable |
| Frame Rate | Variable |
| Aspect Correction | Auto |
| Brightness | 50 |
| Parallel Rendering | Enable |
| Texture Filter | Disable |
| Model Quality | Low |
| Background Quality | Low |
| Soft Shadows | Disable |
| Self Shadows | Disable |
| Motion Blur | Disable |
| Particles | Low |
| Extra Touch | Disable |
Resident Evil 5 |
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| Resolution | 800 x 600 |
| Display Mode | Full Screen |
| Refresh Rate | 60 Hz |
| V-Sync | Disable |
| Frame Rate | Variable |
| AntiAliasing | Without |
| Motion Blur | Disable |
| Shadow Detail | Low |
| Texture Detail | Low |
| Overall Quality | Low |
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Futuremark
3DMark06
3DMark 06 is getting older these days. Therefore if you are using really powerful graphic cards you will hit CPU limitation which means that the graphic card isn't the bottleneck in the system. This is also the reason why in recent high-end desktop systems 3DMark 06 scales nicely with the CPU and the graphic card has much less influence on the scores.
Total
| 3DMark 06 Total | Marks | Percent |
| ASUS Crosshair IV Extreme (Phenom II 1090T BE) | 17'471 | 101.83 % |
| ASUS M5A99X Evo (Phenom II 1090T BE) | 17'421 | 101.54 % |
| Gigabyte MA790FXT-UD5P (Phenom II 1090T BE) | 17'267 | 100.65 % |
| ASUS M4A78T-E (Phenom II 1090T BE) | 17'256 | 100.58 % |
| ASUS M4A78-HTPC (DDR2-800-CL4) (Phenom II 1090T BE) | 17'156 | 100.00 % |
| ASRock M3A790GXH/128M (Phenom II 1090T BE) | 17'053 | 99.40 % |
| ECS A890GXM-A2 (Phenom II 1090T BE) | 17'054 | 99.40 % |
| DFI LanParty DK 790FXB-M3H5 (Phenom II 1090T BE) | 16'866 | 98.31 % |
| ASUS F1A75-V Pro (A8 3850) | 6'960 | 40.57 % |
| Higher is better | ||
CPU
| 3DMark 06 CPU | Marks | Percent |
| ASUS M5A99X Evo (Phenom II 1090T BE) | 5'835 | 103.04 % |
| ASUS Crosshair IV Extreme (Phenom II 1090T BE) | 5'803 | 102.47 % |
| Gigabyte MA790FXT-UD5P (Phenom II 1090T BE) | 5'802 | 102.45 % |
| ASUS M4A78T-E (Phenom II 1090T BE) | 5'746 | 101.46 % |
| DFI LanParty DK 790FXB-M3H5 (Phenom II 1090T BE) | 5'693 | 100.81 % |
| ASRock M3A790GXH/128M (Phenom II 1090T BE) | 5'663 | 100.00 % |
| ASUS M4A78-HTPC (DDR2-800-CL4) (Phenom II 1090T BE) | 5'663 | 100.00 % |
| ECS A890GXM-A2 (Phenom II 1090T BE) | 5'647 | 99.71 % |
| ASUS F1A75-V Pro (A8 3850) | 3'949 | 69.73 % |
| Higher is better | ||
3DMark Vantage
3DMark Vantage is able to squeeze nearly everything out of a recent system. Therefore the feature liste is also pretty long: DirectX10, FP16-HDR, motion blur, parallax occlusion mapping, GPU-physics simulation and different shader effects are being used to even make recent high-end systems struggle.
Total
| 3DMark Vantage Total | Marks | Percent |
| ASUS M5A99X Evo (Phenom II 1090T BE) | 13'009 | 100.69 % |
| ASUS Crosshair IV Extreme (Phenom II 1090T BE) | 12'960 | 100.31 % |
| Gigabyte MA790FXT-UD5P (Phenom II 1090T BE) | 12'945 | 100.19 % |
| ASUS M4A78T-E (Phenom II 1090T BE) | 12'924 | 100.03 % |
| ASUS M4A78-HTPC (DDR2-800-CL4) (Phenom II 1090T BE) | 12'920 | 100.00 % |
| ECS A890GXM-A2 (Phenom II 1090T BE) | 12'884 | 99.72 % |
| ASRock M3A790GXH/128M (Phenom II 1090T BE) | 12'862 | 99.55 % |
| DFI LanParty DK 790FXB-M3H5 (Phenom II 1090T BE) | 12'792 | 99.01 % |
| ASUS F1A75-V Pro (A8 3850) | 4'045 | 31.31 % |
| Higher is better | ||
CPU
| 3DMark Vantage CPU | Marks | Percent |
| ASUS Crosshair IV Extreme (Phenom II 1090T BE) | 16'747 | 103.21 % |
| Gigabyte MA790FXT-UD5P (Phenom II 1090T BE) | 16'724 | 103.07 % |
| ASUS M5A99X Evo (Phenom II 1090T BE) | 16'657 | 102.66 % |
| ASUS M4A78T-E (Phenom II 1090T BE) | 16'543 | 101.95 % |
| ASRock M3A790GXH/128M (Phenom II 1090T BE) | 16'527 | 101.86 % |
| DFI LanParty DK 790FXB-M3H5 (Phenom II 1090T BE) | 16'390 | 101.01 % |
| ECS A890GXM-A2 (Phenom II 1090T BE) | 16'286 | 100.37 % |
| ASUS M4A78-HTPC (DDR2-800-CL4) (Phenom II 1090T BE) | 16'226 | 100.00 % |
| ASUS F1A75-V Pro (A8 3850) | 9'222 | 56.83 % |
| Higher is better | ||
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SiSoft Sandra 1
SiSoft Sandra is a theoretical multi purpose benchmark suite which is able to show differences in CPU architectures. We split the tests with SiSoft Sandra into two parts. Therefore on this page you'll find Arithmetic-, Multimedia- and Cryptography-benchmarks.
Arithmetic Benchmark
| Dhrystone | GIPS | Percent |
| ASUS M4A78-HTPC (DDR2-800-CL4) (Phenom II 1090T BE) | 76.17 | 100.00 % |
| ASUS M5A99X Evo (Phenom II 1090T BE) | 75.15 | 98.56 % |
| ASUS Crosshair IV Extreme (Phenom II 1090T BE) | 74.56 | 97.88 % |
| ECS A890GXM-A2 (Phenom II 1090T BE) | 74.49 | 97.79 % |
| ASRock M3A790GXH/128M (Phenom II 1090T BE) | 74.08 | 97.25 % |
| ASUS M4A78T-E (Phenom II 1090T BE) | 72.47 | 95.14 % |
| DFI LanParty DK 790FXB-M3H5 (Phenom II 1090T BE) | 70.58 | 92.66 % |
| Gigabyte MA790FXT-UD5P (Phenom II 1090T BE) | 63.00 | 82.71 % |
| ASUS F1A75-V Pro (A8 3850) | 41.84 | 54.93 % |
| Higher is better | ||
| Whetstone | GFLOPS | Percent |
| ASUS M5A99X Evo (Phenom II 1090T BE) | 56.00 | 100.38 % |
| Gigabyte MA790FXT-UD5P (Phenom II 1090T BE) | 56.00 | 100.38 % |
| ASUS Crosshair IV Extreme (Phenom II 1090T BE) | 55.86 | 100.12 % |
| ASUS M4A78-HTPC (DDR2-800-CL4) (Phenom II 1090T BE) | 55.79 | 100.00 % |
| ASUS M4A78T-E (Phenom II 1090T BE) | 55.76 | 99.94 % |
| ECS A890GXM-A2 (Phenom II 1090T BE) | 55.56 | 99.59 % |
| ASRock M3A790GXH/128M (Phenom II 1090T BE) | 55.50 | 99.48 % |
| DFI LanParty DK 790FXB-M3H5 (Phenom II 1090T BE) | 55.35 | 99.57 % |
| ASUS F1A75-V Pro (A8 3850) | 33.73 | 60.46 % |
| Higher is better | ||
Multimedia
| Integer | MPixels/sec | Percent |
| ASUS Crosshair IV Extreme (Phenom II 1090T BE) | 83.39 | 100.23 % |
| ASUS M5A99X Evo (Phenom II 1090T BE) | 83.36 | 100.19 % |
| Gigabyte MA790FXT-UD5P (Phenom II 1090T BE) | 83.33 | 100.15 % |
| ASUS M4A78T-E (Phenom II 1090T BE) | 83.30 | 100.12 % |
| DFI LanParty DK 790FXB-M3H5 (Phenom II 1090T BE) | 83.20 | 100.00 % |
| ASUS M4A78-HTPC (DDR2-800-CL4) (Phenom II 1090T BE) | 83.20 | 100.00 % |
| ASRock M3A790GXH/128M (Phenom II 1090T BE) | 83.00 | 99.76 % |
| ECS A890GXM-A2 (Phenom II 1090T BE) | 82.86 | 99.59 % |
| ASUS F1A75-V Pro (A8 3850) | 49.72 | 59.76 % |
| Higher is better | ||
| floating point | MPixels/sec | Percent |
| ASUS M5A99X Evo (Phenom II 1090T BE) | 136.00 | 100.32 % |
| ASUS Crosshair IV Extreme (Phenom II 1090T BE) | 135.86 | 100.22 % |
| Gigabyte MA790FXT-UD5P (Phenom II 1090T BE) | 135.80 | 100.18 % |
| ASUS M4A78T-E (Phenom II 1090T BE) | 135.70 | 100.10 % |
| ASUS M4A78-HTPC (DDR2-800-CL4) (Phenom II 1090T BE) | 135.56 | 100.00 % |
| ECS A890GXM-A2 (Phenom II 1090T BE) | 135.38 | 99.87 % |
| ASRock M3A790GXH/128M (Phenom II 1090T BE) | 135.35 | 99.84 % |
| DFI LanParty DK 790FXB-M3H5 (Phenom II 1090T BE) | 135.34 | 99.84 % |
| ASUS F1A75-V Pro (A8 3850) | 82.40 | 60.78 % |
| Higher is better | ||
Crytography
| AES 256 | MByte/s | Percent |
| ASUS M5A99X Evo (Phenom II 1090T BE) | 980 | 101.03 % |
| ASUS Crosshair IV Extreme (Phenom II 1090T BE) | 977 | 100.72 % |
| Gigabyte MA790FXT-UD5P (Phenom II 1090T BE) | 976 | 100.62 % |
| ASUS M4A78T-E (Phenom II 1090T BE) | 976 | 100.62 % |
| DFI LanParty DK 790FXB-M3H5 (Phenom II 1090T BE) | 974 | 100.41 % |
| ASRock M3A790GXH/128M (Phenom II 1090T BE) | 971 | 100.10 % |
| ECS A890GXM-A2 (Phenom II 1090T BE) | 971 | 100.10 % |
| ASUS M4A78-HTPC (DDR2-800-CL4) (Phenom II 1090T BE) | 970 | 100.00 % |
| ASUS F1A75-V Pro (A8 3850) | 612 | 63.09 % |
| Higher is better | ||
| SHA 256 | MByte/s | Percent |
| ASUS M5A99X Evo (Phenom II 1090T BE) | 883 | 101.38 % |
| ASUS Crosshair IV Extreme (Phenom II 1090T BE) | 881 | 101.15 % |
| Gigabyte MA790FXT-UD5P (Phenom II 1090T BE) | 880 | 101.03 % |
| DFI LanParty DK 790FXB-M3H5 (Phenom II 1090T BE) | 879 | 100.92 % |
| ASUS M4A78T-E (Phenom II 1090T BE) | 878 | 100.80 % |
| ASRock M3A790GXH/128M (Phenom II 1090T BE) | 878 | 100.80 % |
| ECS A890GXM-A2 (Phenom II 1090T BE) | 878 | 100.80 % |
| ASUS M4A78-HTPC (DDR2-800-CL4) (Phenom II 1090T BE) | 871 | 100.00 % |
| ASUS F1A75-V Pro (A8 3850) | 570 | 65.44 % |
| Higher is better | ||
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SiSoft Sandra 2
At this point we deliver the values regarding Memory Bandwidth, Memory Latency as well as Memory and Cache Access.
Memory bandwidth
| Integer | GByte/s | Percent |
| ASUS F1A75-V Pro (A8 3850) | 15.13 | 153.76 % |
| ASUS M5A99X Evo (Phenom II 1090T BE) | 14.29 | 145.22 % |
| ASUS Crosshair IV Extreme (Phenom II 1090T BE) | 14.24 | 144.71 % |
| Gigabyte MA790FXT-UD5P (Phenom II 1090T BE) | 13.00 | 132.11 % |
| ECS A890GXM-A2 (Phenom II 1090T BE) | 13.00 | 132.11 % |
| ASUS M4A78T-E (Phenom II 1090T BE) | 13.00 | 132.11 % |
| ASRock M3A790GXH/128M (Phenom II 1090T BE) | 13.00 | 132.11 % |
| DFI LanParty DK 790FXB-M3H5 (Phenom II 1090T BE) | 12.70 | 129.06 % |
| ASUS M4A78-HTPC (DDR2-800-CL4) (Phenom II 1090T BE) | 9.84 | 100.00 % |
| Higher is better | ||
| floating point | GByte/s | Percent |
| ASUS F1A75-V Pro (A8 3850) | 15.00 | 152.44 % |
| ASUS M5A99X Evo (Phenom II 1090T BE) | 14.30 | 145.33 % |
| ASUS Crosshair IV Extreme (Phenom II 1090T BE) | 14.24 | 144.71 % |
| Gigabyte MA790FXT-UD5P (Phenom II 1090T BE) | 13.00 | 132.11 % |
| ECS A890GXM-A2 (Phenom II 1090T BE) | 13.00 | 132.11 % |
| ASUS M4A78T-E (Phenom II 1090T BE) | 13.00 | 132.11 % |
| ASRock M3A790GXH/128M (Phenom II 1090T BE) | 13.00 | 132.11 % |
| DFI LanParty DK 790FXB-M3H5 (Phenom II 1090T BE) | 12.75 | 129.57 % |
| ASUS M4A78-HTPC (DDR2-800-CL4) (Phenom II 1090T BE) | 9.84 | 100.00 % |
| Higher is better | ||
Memory latency
| Memory latency | ns | Percent |
| ASUS Crosshair IV Extreme (Phenom II 1090T BE) | 70.40 | 92.39 % |
| ASUS M4A78T-E (Phenom II 1090T BE) | 72.50 | 95.14 % |
| ASRock M3A790GXH/128M (Phenom II 1090T BE) | 75.60 | 99.21 % |
| Gigabyte MA790FXT-UD5P (Phenom II 1090T BE) | 75.50 | 99.08 % |
| ASUS M4A78-HTPC (DDR2-800-CL4) (Phenom II 1090T BE) | 76.20 | 100.00 % |
| ASUS M5A99X Evo (Phenom II 1090T BE) | 76.30 | 100.13 % |
| ECS A890GXM-A2 (Phenom II 1090T BE) | 81.00 | 106.30 % |
| DFI LanParty DK 790FXB-M3H5 (Phenom II 1090T BE) | 85.90 | 112.73 % |
| ASUS F1A75-V Pro (A8 3850) | 79.20 | 103.94 % |
| Lower is better | ||
Memory and cache access
| Memory and cache access | GByte/s | Percent |
| ASUS M5A99X Evo (Phenom II 1090T BE) | 85.84 | 105.84 % |
| ASUS Crosshair IV Extreme (Phenom II 1090T BE) | 84.48 | 104.17 % |
| DFI LanParty DK 790FXB-M3H5 (Phenom II 1090T BE) | 83.87 | 103.41 % |
| Gigabyte MA790FXT-UD5P (Phenom II 1090T BE) | 81.70 | 100.74 % |
| ASUS M4A78T-E (Phenom II 1090T BE) | 81.30 | 100.24 % |
| ASUS M4A78-HTPC (DDR2-800-CL4) (Phenom II 1090T BE) | 81.10 | 100.00 % |
| ECS A890GXM-A2 (Phenom II 1090T BE) | 81.14 | 100.05 % |
| ASRock M3A790GXH/128M (Phenom II 1090T BE) | 80.70 | 99.50 % |
| ASUS F1A75-V Pro (A8 3850) | 56.74 | 69.96 % |
| Higher is better | ||
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Super Pi 1M / 32M, wPrime
Meanwhile Super Pi even in its latest version has become pretty old. Never the less it is able to show scaling to the clock speed nicely. Following we will also run Super Pi with different memory frequencies as well as different latencies. This shows the influence of the memory subsystem.
Super Pi 1M
| SuperPi Mod 1.5 XS 1M | Percent | |
| Asus Crosshair IV Extreme (Phenom II 1090T BE) | 21.341 sec | 98.77 % |
| ASUS M5A99X Evo (Phenom II 1090T BE) | 21.357 sec | 98.85 % |
| Gigabyte MA790FXT-UD5P (Phenom II 1090T BE) | 21.403 sec | 99.06 % |
| ASUS M4A78T-E (Phenom II 1090T BE) | 21.481 sec | 99.42 % |
| ASRock M3A790GXH/128M (Phenom II 1090T BE) | 21.563 sec | 99.80 % |
| DFI LanParty DK 790FXB-M3H5 (Phenom II 1090T BE) | 21.590 sec | 99.93 % |
| ASUS M4A78-HTPC (DDR2) (Phenom II 1090T BE) | 21.606 sec | 100.00 % |
| ECS A890GXM-A2 (Phenom II 1090T BE) | 21.653 sec | 100.22 % |
| ASUS F1A75-V Pro (A8 3850) | 25.319 sec | 117.19 % |
| lower is better | ||
wPrime 32M
wPrime is based on a multithreaded algorithm to calculate the square root to up to 32 billion digits. Therefore it is possible to put 100 percent load on every core or thread and to see differences between architectures.
| WPrime v1.55 32M | Percent | |
| ECS A890GXM-A2 (Phenom II 1090T BE) | 8.143 sec | 98.86 % |
| ASUS M4A78-HTPC (DDR2) (Phenom II 1090T BE) | 8.237 sec | 100.00 % |
| ASUS M5A99X Evo (Phenom II 1090T BE) | 8.269 sec | 100.39 % |
| Gigabyte MA790FXT-UD5P (Phenom II 1090T BE) | 8.344 sec | 101.30 % |
| Asus Crosshair IV Extreme (Phenom II 1090T BE) | 8.345 sec | 101.31 % |
| ASUS M4A78T-E (Phenom II 1090T BE) | 8.502 sec | 103.22 % |
| ASRock M3A790GXH/128M (Phenom II 1090T BE) | 8.531 sec | 103.57 % |
| DFI LanParty DK 790FXB-M3H5 (Phenom II 1090T BE) | 8.656 sec | 105.09 % |
| ASUS F1A75-V Pro (A8 3850) | 17.315 sec | 210.21 % |
| lower is better | ||
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Games
Crysis DX9 800 x 600, low details
Crysis is still one of the games which has very high system requirements. Therefore developer Crytek implemented Direct3D-10-API, High-Dynamic-Range-Rendering, Parallax Occlusion Mapping, Soft Shadows, Motion Blur, Depth of Field as well as Soft Particles. We test Crysis by using DirectX9 to show CPU-sacaling especially which low resolutions. If we look at the high resolutions we are able to spot that the CPUs influence compared to the graphic card becomes much less important.
| Crysis DX9 800 x 600, low details | Percent | |
| Asus Crosshair IV Extreme (Phenom II 1090T BE) | 118.78 fps | 103.11 % |
| Gigabyte MA790FXT-UD5P (Phenom II 1090T BE) | 118.61 fps | 101.62 % |
| ASUS M5A99X Evo (Phenom II 1090T BE) | 123.32 fps | 101.53 % |
| ASUS M4A78T-E (Phenom II 1090T BE) | 118.30 fps | 100.88 % |
| ASUS M4A78-HTPC (DDR2-800-CL4) (Phenom II 1090T BE) | 117.05 fps | 100.00 % |
| ASRock M3A790GXH/128M (Phenom II 1090T BE) | 118.68 fps | 95.95 % |
| ECS A890GXM-A2 (Phenom II 1090T BE) | 111.22 fps | 94.54 % |
| DFI LanParty DK 790FXB-M3H5 (Phenom II 1090T BE) | 113.25 fps | 92.31 % |
| ASUS F1A75-V Pro (A8 3850) | 91.87 fps | 78.49 % |
| Higher is better | ||
Resident Evil 800 x 600, low details
Resident Evil uses nearly every modern rendering technology: HDR, Hemisphere Lighting, Soft Shadows, Soft Particles, Field- und Motion-Blur oder auch Alpha to Coverage and static Ambient Occlusion. Furthermore Resident Evil 5 has been optimized for multicore architectures and already comes DirectX11 ready. By using the DirectX9 as well as the DirectX10 benchmark we can again show you CPU-scaling with low resolutions and the compared to the CPU overproportional influence of the graphics card at high resolutions.
| Resident Evil DX9 800 x 600, low details | Average | Percent |
| Asus Crosshair IV Extreme (Phenom II 1090T BE) | 134.0 fps | 102.37 % |
| ASUS M5A99X Evo (Phenom II 1090T BE) | 133.2 fps | 109.18 % |
| DFI LanParty DK 790FXB-M3H5 (Phenom II 1090T BE) | 130.9 fps | 107.29 % |
| ASRock M3A790GXH/128M (Phenom II 1090T BE) | 130.1 fps | 106.64 % |
| Gigabyte MA790FXT-UD5P (Phenom II 1090T BE) | 129.5 fps | 106.15 % |
| ASUS M4A78T-E (Phenom II 1090T BE) | 127.9 fps | 104.83 % |
| ECS A890GXM-A2 (Phenom II 1090T BE) | 124.3 fps | 101.88 % |
| ASUS M4A78-HTPC (DDR2-800-CL4) (Phenom II 1090T BE) | 122.0 fps | 100.00 % |
| ASUS F1A75-V Pro (A8 3850) | 82.80 fps | 67.87 % |
| Higher is better | ||
Street Fighter 4 800 x 600, low details
Street Fighter 4 comes with an extra benchmark version which makes testing you system childrens play. At low resolutions the system requirements are pretty low and we can see CPU-scaling in the results. At high resolution the graphic card becomes more important and the CPUs clock speed has less influence on the fps.
| Street Fighter 4 800 x 600, low details | Average | Percent |
| ASUS M5A99X Evo (Phenom II 1090T BE) | 596.11 fps | 109.41 % |
| Asus Crosshair IV Extreme (Phenom II 1090T BE) | 566.52 fps | 103.98 % |
| ASUS M4A78-HTPC (DDR2-800-CL4) (Phenom II 1090T BE) | 544.85 fps | 100.00 % |
| ASRock M3A790GXH/128M (Phenom II 1090T BE) | 527.78 fps | 96.87 % |
| Gigabyte MA790FXT-UD5P (Phenom II 1090T BE) | 518.49 fps | 95.16 % |
| ASUS M4A78T-E (Phenom II 1090T BE) | 517.81 fps | 95.04 % |
| ECS A890GXM-A2 (Phenom II 1090T BE) | 516.37 fps | 94.77 % |
| DFI LanParty DK 790FXB-M3H5 (Phenom II 1090T BE) | 503.59 fps | 92.47 % |
| ASUS F1A75-V Pro (A8 3850) | 177.10 fps | 32.50 % |
| Higher is better | ||
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Conclusion
| Overall | + | - | |
| At a first glance ASUS leaves a good impression with its F1A75-V Pro. Especially the digital power design as well as the space between the PCI-Express x16 slots are major plus points. Furthermore we very much like the color design and to us it's very appealing. | -
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| Layout | + | - | |
| Generally the F1A75-V Pro's layout is well thought. Once more very practical are the angled SATA connectors. Furthermore the placement of the PCI-Express x16 slots is well thought too and therefore nothing needs to be criticized at this point as there is space between them and the last one isn't close to the motherboard bottom's edge. You will also find an entire set of video outputs consisting of no less than four video connectors. What was also very practical is, that it uses the same CPU mounting kit as AMD AM2/3's motherboards, which means the socket is compatible to older coolers. And of course, the possibility of adding up to six USB3.0 devices is also very practical. The only inconvenient concerns the memory slots which are quite close to the socket and it can cause incompatibilities with big heatspreaders and huge CPU coolers. | - Angled SATA connectors - Connectors a the bottom edge accessible in any case - All Video output - Removable BIOS chip - Same mounting kit as AM2/AM3 Boards | - Memory slots quite close to the socket | |
| Performance | + | - | |
| Because this is the first socket FM1 board we review we compare the performance value to socket AM3 and socket AM3+ boards. Generally the board didn't show any performance drops which already leaves a good impression. It absolutely isn't surprising that a four core Llano CPU is slower than a six core Phenom II. Nevertheless it is very interesting to see that the budget CPU comes with a new memory interface that can outperform Phenom II by quite a margin. | - Memory bandwidth | ||
| Recommendation | + | - | |
| If you should consider assembling an energy efficient home server or desktop PC then the F1A75-V Pro will be a good choice. | - Home-Server - Office PC |
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| Rating | |||
| The ASUS F1A75-V Pro receives four out of five stars. | |||
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Author :Christian Ney, c.ney@ocaholic.ch Copy edited and translated : Christian Ney, c.ney@ocaholic.ch & Marc Buechel, m.buechel@ocaholic.ch