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post #1 of 193
1/25/13 at 6:14pm
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Big thanks to my pals at Asrock Taiwan for rushing over this preview sample to me yesterday, before the CNY holiday festivities and long break kicks in.


Asrock FM2A85X-ITX
A85 chipset, 7 SATA ports, 4+2 phase power with heatsinks, dual-Stack MOSFET, premium caps... is this the ultimate FM2 ITX mobo to lust for? biggrin.gif


Official specs
ASRock > FM2A85X-ITX








Unboxing







Badge
Looks like Asrock has finally bundled its own casing badge





Mobo
Nicely finned heatsinks on Southbridge and power subsystem, SATA port galore on ITX







Note the BIOS sticker is printed as L0.12B... gosh, a very early beta indeed.


Ambient air ~28C


★ Asrock FM2A85X-ITX | AMD Trinity A10-5800K | 2 x 4GB KVR1333@1866 | Corsair H55 CLC | Corsair AX760i ★


LinX
Great tool for quick rough o'c screening





P95 Blend
My usual 15mins which is all I can bear for this ultimate boring test





Ripbot264
My current fave productive stress test







Cinebench





WinRAR





7Zip





Yes, it's looking good so far. smile.gif
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1/25/13 at 6:22pm
This is good news! Hopefully no VRM issues like the A75 version. I Also noticed that ASrock has thin-mini-ITX intel boards now too! Now I really can't decide what to do for my next build smile.gif

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post #3 of 193
1/25/13 at 6:29pm
Any idea when this comes out in the US and how much it costs?
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post #4 of 193
1/25/13 at 7:06pm
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Originally Posted by yanks8981 View Post

Any idea when this comes out in the US and how much it costs?

Directly from Asrock

"Should be by end of the month and estimate MSRP is $115.99. Thanks "

So, like a week.
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post #5 of 193
1/25/13 at 7:11pm
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Guru3d.com News -ASRock FM2A85X-ITX Mini-ITX Motherboard
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The FM2A85X-ITX will become available from January 25th for 10,480 Yen (about $116).
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1/25/13 at 7:16pm
Could you possibly do some heat checks on the VRMs while it is overclocked or confirm that the overheating issues have been fixed?
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post #7 of 193
1/25/13 at 7:20pm
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I actually had posted this earlier in the AMD FM2 thread here
http://www.overclock.net/t/1301979/trinity-apu-amd-socket-fm2-motherboard-discussion-gallery/540_20#post_19137630
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I used a cheap infra red gun to read the temps off the mosfet/Southbridge heatsinks while in the BIOS and while transcoding, the max reached was 35C, ambient 25C.
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post #8 of 193
1/25/13 at 7:40pm
For a server build.....

FM2A85X-ITX + AMD A4-5300 (or a Athlon II X4 740 if I can find one)
OR
P8H77-I + Celeron G1620


Hmmmmmmmm........
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post #9 of 193
1/25/13 at 7:52pm
Think Asrock is cornering the FM2 ITX market?

I thought the main reason for A85X was a second PCIE slot? (there's usually not enough room to make use of the extra SATA ports)

The fact that A85X hardware-wise is geared towards OCing and enthusiasts is more or less market segmentation (Kind of like 990FX vs 990X)
Edited by AlphaC - 1/25/13 at 7:55pm
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post #10 of 193
1/25/13 at 8:11pm
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For a server build.....

FM2A85X-ITX + AMD A4-5300 (or a Athlon II X4 740 if I can find one)
OR
P8H77-I + Celeron G1620


Hmmmmmmmm........

I feel exactly the same way. If you went with the H77-i, what heatsink would you use? I hate how there are circuits on the back that basically makes any backplate impossible to install.
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