AMD Vision A8-3850 APU & Asus F1A75-M Pro Motherboard Review

For our tests, we used a Coolit ECO A.L.C. to cool the AMD Vision A8-3850 APU and used an Antec TruePower 550W power supply for the system.  According to AMD, the Lynx platform can experience instability with some larger power supplies (750W+) due to the lower idle power so it is worth bearing this in mind when you're building a Lynx system.

Special thanks to Intel for supplying some hardware at late notice.

AMD Vision A8-3850 System

APU: AMD Vision A8-3850 2.9 GHz
Memory: 4 GB (2x 2GB) Kingston HyperX DD3 (1866 MHz)
Power Supply: Antec TruePower 550W
Motherboard: Asus F1A75-M Pro
Cooler: Coolit ECO A.L.C.
Thermal Paste: Arctic Cooling MX-3
Drive: Kingston SSDNow V100 128 GB
Operating System: Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit
Graphics (APU Only): AMD Radeon HD 6550D (512 MB Allocated)
Graphics (Dual Graphics Mode): AMD Radeon HD 6690D2 (6550D + AMD Radeon 6670) – tests in this mode are listed ‘DG'

Intel Core-i3 2105 System

CPU: Intel Core i3-2105 3.10 GHz
Memory: 4 GB (2x 2GB) Kingston HyperX DD3 (1333 MHz)
Power Supply: Antec TruePower 550W
Motherboard: Asus P8H67-M Pro
Cooler: Thermaltake Contac29 BP
Thermal Paste: Arctic Cooling MX-3
Drive: Kingston SSDNow V100 128 GB
Operating System: Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit
Graphics: Intel HD3000

Other Hardware

OCZ Vertex 3 MAX IOPS 240 GB SSD
Patriot Torqx 2 in Akasa Elite S USB3.0 enclosure
Viewsonic VX2260WM 1920 x 1080 Monitor

Software:

SiSoft Sandra 2011 SP3
Cinebench R11.5
Super Pi Mod 1.5
3DMark 11
3DMark Vantage
PCMark 7
CrystalDiskMark
Cyberlink PowerDVD 11
Cyberlink MediaEspresso 6
DiRT 3
F1 2010
Dead Space 2
Call of Duty: Black Ops

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