Asus F1A75-M Pro Llano Motherboard Review

OverclockingThere are various ways of getting more performance from a system for a very small outlay, and the most common would be to overclock the system. This involves surpassing the recommended performance rating of components to a point that is beyond them.

To overclock, most users would find that altering options directly in the BIOS give the best results, and that’s exactly what we will be doing.

We first decided that 1.55V would be the maximum CPU core voltage we would use but for the most part, the auto voltage settings should do most of the work for us. We would also be running our memory at a slower speed than its stock rating so that it can be put out of the equation and the focus will be solely on the processor.

Having a new processor in our grubby little hands can cause some confusion as reviewers such as ourselves are unaware as to what we should expect from an overclock. After speaking to Asus they confirmed that 3.5-3.6GHz should be an achievable overclock and we reached just that.

We bumped the voltage straight up to our maximum and proceeded to raise the APU frequency so that the CPU and GPU aspects were both being pushed to their fullest. We then hit a brick wall in terms of the speed obtained and the extra volts didn’t make much difference as we were able to drop the voltage down ever so slightly whilst not suffering in terms of stability.

As seen above, a respectable 3.5GHz from its stock 2.9 is good news and was easily obtained using 121×29 at 1.5V.