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ASUS F1A75-I Deluxe Review – Llano and Mini-ITX

 by Ian Cutress on October 1, 2011 5:30 PM EST
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Metro2033 IGP

Metro 2033 is a challenging DX11 benchmark that challenges every system that tries to run it at any high-end settings.  Developed by 4A Games and released in March 2010, we use the inbuilt DirectX 11 Frontline benchmark to test the hardware at 1024x768 with medium settings.  Results are given as the average frame rate from 10 runs.

Metro2033 - IGP

Despite the increase in memory, the 320 SP IGP in the A6-3650 gives fewer frames than the 400 SP IGP in the A8-3850 of the A75 Extreme6.

Dirt2 IGP

Dirt 2 is a racing game released in September 2009, published by Codemasters.  We use the inbuilt benchmark at 1024x768 and medium settings, and the results shown are the average frame rate from 4 runs.

Dirt 2 - IGP

In the EGO engine, faster memory rules here over processing power, giving the A6-3650 at DDR3-1866 a lead.

Left4Dead2

Left4Dead 2 is a classic Steam FPS Shooter.  It changes very quickly from GPU to CPU bound over a certain limit - our test is a time demo taken from a run through of the first level.

Left4Dead - IGP

While the game is GPU bound, memory obviously plays a role.

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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 build
    I 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
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