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MSI FM2-A85XA-G65 (A85X) Motherboard Review
Posted by Philipp Esselbach on: 10/03/2012 09:16 AM [ Print | 0 comment(s) ]
eTeknix.com posted a review on the MSI FM2-A85XA-G65 (A85X) Motherboard
Today sees the official launch for AMD’s new APU platform named Virgo. It doesn’t just include a whole stack of new APU processors, but also sees a release of some new motherboards, featuring the FM2 socket and of course a variety of new chipsets.
The flagship chipset for the FM2 platform is the A85X chip which is featured on the MSI motherboard we’re looking at today, which is conveniently called the FM2-A85XA-G65 so you’ll be sure to know what socket and chipset it is, just from the name. Being called the “G65″ also means that it’s pretty high-end. Unless MSI release a Big Bang version, we can’t see anything topping this out of their own range.
For those frequent readers of eTeknix, you may have seen the preview we did on this board last week, which can be found here. We focussed on the board itself, getting into the aesthetics, design and functionality but even though we could have showed a few benchmarks, we decided to wait, and instead showed a few power consumption figures, purely so you could wet your lips until today; the full review.
The flagship chipset for the FM2 platform is the A85X chip which is featured on the MSI motherboard we’re looking at today, which is conveniently called the FM2-A85XA-G65 so you’ll be sure to know what socket and chipset it is, just from the name. Being called the “G65″ also means that it’s pretty high-end. Unless MSI release a Big Bang version, we can’t see anything topping this out of their own range.
For those frequent readers of eTeknix, you may have seen the preview we did on this board last week, which can be found here. We focussed on the board itself, getting into the aesthetics, design and functionality but even though we could have showed a few benchmarks, we decided to wait, and instead showed a few power consumption figures, purely so you could wet your lips until today; the full review.
MSI FM2-A85XA-G65 (A85X) Motherboard Review
