APU: AMD A8-3850
Motherboards
- Foxconn A75M
- GIGABYTE GA-A75M-UD2H
Memory Team Xtreem PC3 12800 DDR3 1600 7-7-7-21
CPU Cooler CoolerMaster Hyper 212+
Graphics
- Integrated Radeon HD 6550D
- Discrete AMD Radoen HD 6570
PSU OCZ StealthXtream 2 600W
HDD Western Digital Caviar Blue 500GB 7200RPM SATAIII
Overclocking
Unfortunately there were no options at all to overclock within the BIOS, however it is touted that this motherboard supports 1866MHz memory speeds, which is the native speed for the AMD A6 and A8 APUs as well as displaying supposed overclocking features on the packaging. Whether or not the overclocking features will be enabled via BIOS update or if they simply do not exist and the mention on the packaging is a mistake is to be seen. However, the primary deal breaker is the lack of manual DRAM settings which allows the use of faster memory speeds.
Cool & Quiet enabled, though base clock is amiss by 0.2MHz.
Running at full speed, well, almost.
CrossfireX Setup
More bad news, despite my best efforts to try to get dual graphics to to work on the Foxconn A75M I could not get CrossfireX with the HD 6550 and HD 6570 to work. In the northbridge option in the Advanced BIOS tab, the only option available is to set IGP memory allocation. I set this to manual> 512MB in hoping this would manually force the motherboard to start with both iGPU and dGPU active, however this resulted in no POST and required me to clear CMOS to regain access to the system. This is another huge blow.
