We keep turning to our test notes to check playability, and again find that every board plays the game smoothly from the APU's Radeon HD graphics core at 1600x900 and medium quality settings. Higher settings weren't smooth on any board, so we’re left to judge each based on non-gaming criteria.


A difference of 3 FPS does look fairly large when charted on a narrow performance scale, but we’re not concerned, since none of these resolutions are playable at Skyrim’s High quality preset. These averages become additional data for each board’s overall performance index.
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Summary
- AMD's Answer To Ivy Bridge-Based Core i3
- ASRock FM2A85X Extreme6
- FM2A85X Extreme6 Firmware
- Asus F2A85-V Pro
- F2A85-V Pro Firmware
- ECS A85F2-A Golden
- A85F2-A Golden Firmware
- Gigabyte F2A85X-UP4
- F2A85X-UP4 Firmware
- MSI FM2-A85XA-G65
- FM2-A85XA-G65 Firmware
- Sapphire Pure Platinum A85XT
- Pure Platinum A85XT Firmware
- Test Settings And Benchmarks
- Benchmark Results: Battlefield 3
- Benchmark Results: F1 2012
- Benchmark Results: Skyrim
- Benchmark Results: Audio And Video Encoding
- Benchmark Results: Adobe Creative Suite
- Benchmark Results: Productivity
- Benchmark Results: File Compression
- Power, Heat, And Efficiency
- Overclocking
- Of Six Socket FM2 Boards, Two Rise To The Top
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0 Hideswamprat , 26 November 2012 18:26Does the hybrid crossfire thingymajig work (and if so how well) on the desktop APUs? It could be an interesting addition to the discrete graphics 'conundrum' by keeping some of the graphics value of the APU
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0 Hidespare_flash , 28 November 2012 04:16Ha, I followed the link expecting to read an article about a motherboard that would hold 6 processors. I need new glasses.
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0 HideMacheri , 31 March 2013 08:18Does is it really influence the performance? It's nice to have some more connectors but doesn't worth paying 60$ more for an expensive motherboard like these.