Which A88X-Based Board Should You Buy For Your Kaveri APU?
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Properly-configured firmware assures boring benchmark results. Anyone who can’t tolerate the mundane will likely want to skip ahead to our power tests and overclocking results.
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MSI’s A88X-G45 Gaming falls slightly behind in Sandra's Arithmetic module, but a look at our power charts could indicate the reason. Our benchmark script has wait periods between tests.
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The Asus A88X-Pro produces exceptional memory bandwidth scores, even though the board chooses the same DDR3-1600 data rate as every other platform. The difference is likely due to secondary and tertiary timing optimizations.
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Prev Page Test Hardware And Benchmark Configuration Next Page Results: Media Conversion And Content CreationThomas Soderstrom is a Senior Staff Editor at Tom's Hardware US. He tests and reviews cases, cooling, memory and motherboards.
