ASUS F2A55-M Motherboard Review
Posted: 03 March 2013 02:23 AM   [ Ignore ]
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I Managed to get the chance to to review the F2A55-M Motherboard , its a mATX

Motherboard but it got some nice features and i want to share its results here.


The Box:
http://img22.imageshack.us/img22/6770/201302271821.jpg


The Packaging:

http://img441.imageshack.us/img441/2069/201302271823.jpg


inside the box I found the following:

•User’s manual
•I/O Shield
•2 x SATA 6Gb/s cable(s)
•1 x DVD Drivers
•Manuals

The Motherboard:


http://img543.imageshack.us/img543/5012/201302271824.jpg

the F2A55-M is a mATX motherboard , it have the Solid Capacitors on Board and

they are 5K Capacitors

http://img703.imageshack.us/img703/7319/201302271825.jpg

here is the FM2 Socket and on the the right side are the 4x DDR3 DIMMs on Board

that can holds up to 64GB total RAM with DDR3 2400MHz Speeds (OC)

http://img705.imageshack.us/img705/492/201302271826.jpg

this section views the AMD A55 FCH (Hudson D2) Chipset which controlls 6x SATA

3GB/s ports

http://img811.imageshack.us/img811/9130/201302271827.jpg

there are 2x PCIe 2.0 x16 Slots which can run as single x16 or dual x8 in case

of Crossfire or SLI use, 1x PCIe 2.0 x1 Slot , 1x Standard PCI Slot


http://img826.imageshack.us/img826/2118/201302271828.jpg
the Rear I/O P{anel have 1 x PS/2 keyboard/mouse combo port ,1 x DVI,1 x D-Sub,1

x HDMI,1 x LAN (RJ45) port(s), 2 x USB 3.0 (blue),4 x USB 2.0 and 1 x Optical

S/PDIF out,6 x Audio jacks


Testing and Benchmark setup:

the setup

http://img717.imageshack.us/img717/5295/mbspec.jpg

Benchmarks:

I Also Managed to overclock the CPU to 4.43Ghz Speed and the results were the

following..

http://img18.imageshack.us/img18/2261/benchoe.jpg


Conclusions:

ASUS F2A55-M Motherboard is a Fair Enough for SOHO or Budget HTPC ,the features on board like the DIGI+ helps to make the motherboard perform much better in overclocking and Stability, also the EPU where it allows the motherboard to Save Power a lot.

 

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