ASUS F1A75-I Deluxe Review – Llano and Mini-ITX
by Ian Cutress on October 1, 2011 5:30 PM EST- Posted in
- Motherboards
- Asus
- A75
3D Movement Algorithm Test - link
The algorithms in 3DPM employ either uniform random number generation or normal distribution random number generation, and vary in various amounts of trigonometric operations, conditional statements, generation and rejection, fused operations, etc. The benchmark runs through six algorithms for a specified number of particles and steps, and calculates the speed of each algorithm, then sums them all for a final score. This is an example of a real world situation that a computational scientist may find themselves in, rather than a pure synthetic benchmark. The benchmark is also parallel between particles simulated, and we test the single thread performance as well as the multi-threaded performance.
As the 3DPM benchmark is mainly CPU driven, the A6-3650 used in this review performs worse than the A8-3850 used in the A75 Extreme6 review as expected.
WinRAR x64 3.93 - link
With 64-bit WinRAR, we compress the set of files used in the USB speed tests. WinRAR x64 3.93 attempts to use multithreading when possible.
As requested in our A75 Extreme6 review, we ran the memory at DDR3-1866 for the F1A75-I Deluxe benchmark testing. In this case, despite the lower clock speed of the A6-3650 used, the increased memory gave a significant boost to the WinRAR compression time.
FastStone Image Viewer 4.2 - link
FastStone Image Viewer is a free piece of software I have been using for quite a few years now. It allows quick viewing of flat images, as well as resizing, changing color depth, adding simple text or simple filters. It also has a bulk image conversion tool, which we use here. The software currently operates only in single-thread mode, which should change in later versions of the software. For this test, we convert a series of 170 files, of various resolutions, dimensions and types (of a total size of 163MB), all to the .gif format of 640x480 dimensions.
For FastStone, it seems that memory does not play that much of a role, so the F1A75-I Deluxe falls behind the Extreme6 due to clock speed.
Sorenson Squeeze 6.0 - link
Sorenson Squeeze is a professional video encoder, complete with a vast array of options. For this test, we convert 32 HD videos, each a minute long and approximately 42 MB in size, to WMV 512KBps format. Squeeze can encode multiple videos at once, one for each thread.
Video editing is where the improved DDR3-1866 memory setting used with the F1A75-I Deluxe is a tour-de-force, beating the higher clock speed, but slower memory A75 Extreme6 setup.
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bijeshn - Monday, October 3, 2011 - link
How good is the onboard wireless 802.11 b/g/n implementation on this board?mitcoes - Monday, October 3, 2011 - link
I do think this devices are ATOM competence.As they provide a remote control, pobrably to be used as set top boxrs attached to TVs.
Google TV, Android, Desktop Linux, and even Hackintosh are the OSs that will run better.
MS WOS is for AMD Phenom and bulldozers or iNTEL I3 to i9 not for Llano or ATOM.
At this kind of devices nix works far more better than MS WOS.
Death666Angel - Monday, October 3, 2011 - link
And why exactly is that?Also, can Linux play commercial blurays, yet? Can I legally install MacOS on a non-Apple PC? Does Google TV or Android have an easy installation routine and easy navigation on a PC?
CharonPDX - Monday, October 3, 2011 - link
*SEEMS* good. But to use a USB dongle, rather than either CIR (standard WinMCE protocol) or Bluetooth seems dopey. Heck, I'd like to see it use CIR for the WinMCE side, and Bluetooth for the keyboard/mouse half...MobiusStrip - Monday, October 3, 2011 - link
When these babies have Thunderbolt, they're gonna rock.justniz - Tuesday, October 4, 2011 - link
Please stop using 1024x768 for gaming benchmarks.I'm pretty sure practically no gamer uses a 4:3 monitor or plays in such a low resolution.
Whats wrong with 1920x1080?
Furthermore with any modern GPU, at such a low res th'eres a strong chance all you're maxing out is the DMA bandwidth to/from the GPU, not its rendering muscles.
mariush - Tuesday, October 4, 2011 - link
Actually a better resolution would be 1280x720.Since it's 16:9, various wide format monitors would not distort the image and since it's HDMI native TVs would probably upscale it just fine to 1920x1080.
Such resolution is suitable to test on board video cards (and cpu embedded video cards) - with higher resolutions you may get into memory bandwidth issues and then you're not really testing the gpu anymore..
ddrum2000 - Wednesday, October 5, 2011 - link
I agree with many that this review is a bit flawed. I'd like to see this board compared to the AsRock A75M-ITX and the Zotac A75ITX-A-E . In addition the A8-3850 is not the best HTPC CPU because of the high TDP. The A8-3800 with a 65 W TDP (I think) would be a much better HTPC comparison. Thanks to the person who said that the Scythe Big Shuriken will not fit as the was the cooler I was planning to use. Thoughts?AnnihilatorX - Thursday, October 6, 2011 - link
I am looking for a power efficient mini-ITX buildI was hoping to see some power consumption benchmark :/
Soulkeeper - Sunday, October 16, 2011 - link
I think your motherboard review would be improved if you included the following:A table containing the bios min/max for all voltage, fsb, mult, etc. settings
Tomshardware does this when they compare motherboards and it's really helpful :)
Also I can't help but wonder if the wifi can be removed and replaced with a mSATA/'miniPCIe' SSD and used as the boot drive.
Thank you