Asus Ai Tweaker remains familiar, without so much as a new theme to distract us from its navigational ease. The F2A85-V Pro’s combination of hardware and firmware optimization allowed our A10-5800K CPU to crest 4.5 GHz with no noticeable loss of stability.

Some extra voltage would be needed to achieve that combination of frequency and stability. The motherboard’s 1.4375 V setting gave us around 1.42 V at idle, while its 1.625 V DRAM setting gave us around 1.65 V.

Our target core voltage of 1.45 V was only really needed at full load, and that was achieved by setting the board’s CPU Load Line Calibration to High. Other combinations of higher base voltage and less load line calibration produced less-precise results.

Other Digi+ Power Control settings worked adequately at motherboard defaults.
The F2A85-V Pro doesn’t support XMP, though we wouldn't expect to see this particular Intel technology working in an AMD-based platform. We set our memory’s basic timing values according to the kit's specs, and found that the motherboard itself compensated higher frequency multipliers with appropriately-looser secondary timings.
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- 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
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- 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
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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.

