MSI A88X-G45 Gaming Motherboard Review

My test system consisted of the MI A88X-G45 motherboard with AMD A10-7850K APU, a Noctua NH-L12 cooler and 16GB of dual channel AMD R9 DDR3-2400MHz memory.

Other parts of the system were a 500GB Samsung 840 EVO SSD (£216) and a Be quiet! Straight Power 400W PSU (£59.99).

I ran a selection of benchmark tests on the MSI A88X-G45 Gaming using three different settings.

First Set: default speeds with the APU at 3.7GHz that boosts to 4GHz with the memory running at 1866MHz.

Second Set: OC Genie Gear 1 with the APU at 4.25GHz and the memory at 2166MHz.

Third Set: I used Gear 2 with the APU at 4.5GHz and the memory at its full speed of 2400MHz.

It is worth emphasizing that I didn't make any changes to the BIOS so the initial PC build was very quick and the configuration was as simple as I could have hoped.

I suffered just one single problem when Media Espresso crashed during the final test with hardware acceleration disabled. That is a minor problem as you wouldn't have much reason to use that particular piece of software without hardware acceleration.

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