Gigabyte F2A85XN-WIFI Mini-ITX Motherboard Review

1. Introduction2. Gigabyte F2A85XN-WIFI: Packaging and Bundle3. Gigabyte F2A85XN-WIFI: Layout and Features4. Gigabyte F2A85XN-WIFI: BIOS and Overclocking5. Testing Methodology6. Synthetic: PCMark 77. Synthetic: 3DMark8. Synthetic: 3Dmark 119. Synthetic: 3DMark Vantage10. Synthetic: SiSoft Sandra 201311. Synthetic: Cinebench R11.512. Synthetic: Super Pi13. Real World: WinRAR14. Real World: MKV Playback15. Real World: Media Encoding16. Gaming: Battlefield 317. Gaming: Call of Duty Black Ops 218. Gaming: DiRT Showdown19. Technical: Power Consumption20. Closing Thoughts21. View All Pages

BIOS

As you can see from the screenshots above, Gigabyte hasn't chosen to use a UEFI interface for this particular motherboard.  The standard BIOS interface is easy enough to navigate, though, and offers us all the overclocking options we could possibly ask for.  It made overclocking the APU a very simple task indeed actually.

Overclocking

We managed to achieve a decent 4.6 GHz overclock with the AMD Vision A10-6800K (4.1 Ghz stock speed).  This was achieved using a baseclock of 100 MHz with a multiplier of 46x.  We used a fixed voltage of 1.425V to achieve this.

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