Concluding Thoughts

Earlier we go any further, it's fair to say that all three A75 motherboards offer acceptable performance, overclocking abilities, features and value. However, the indicate of this commodity is to determine what production we feel is the best choice.

In terms of features, nosotros think Asrock's A75 Extreme6 is the best offer with its superior SATA back up, expansion slot design, inclusion of Firewire and an hands accessible CMOS reset switch along with onboard ability/reset buttons. Although Asus added DisplayPort forth with an extra audio jack, this isn't plenty to dethrone the A75 Extreme6. Too, the Gigabyte A75-UD4H has a meliorate audio solution, simply it's only a marginal comeback over Asrock and Asus boards. In fact, we bet you wouldn't even find the difference between the two Realtek chips.

As for performance, if you lot looked at any of the benchmark pages then you undoubtedly noticed the Asus F1A75-V maintained a dominant position throughout virtually every test. Asrock'southward XFast USB utility was impressive as it significantly boosted USB iii.0 performance, but the A75 Extreme6 ranked last in nearly tests. Although Gigabyte's A75-UD4H delivered superb overclocking results, the F1A75-V was the better overall performer -- both in speed and ability consumption.

We didn't dedicate a section for our installation impressions of each board, just information technology should be noted that the testing phase wasn't without hiccups. Get-go, we were unable to configure the F1A75-V'south UEFI with the Logitech Wireless Moving ridge keyboard and mouse. The mouse could only rail horizontally, while the keyboard was then laggy information technology was unusable. Switching to the Logitech MX5500 solved the issue, just this was an annoying compatibility problem nonetheless.

Meanwhile, Asrock'due south A75 Extreme6 was quite sensitive to memory timings. As we discovered when overclocking, many frequencies and timings accepted past Asus and Gigabyte boards would non work with Asrock's. The board was easy to configure when overclocking, but you'll definitely want to be cautious when tinkering with your memory.

Gigabyte's A75-UD4H worked well for the about role, yet, nosotros kept running into hard drive detection issues with AHCI enabled. For some reason drives would often go missing with AHCI on and we couldn't determine why. There were no such problems in IDE style and the lath worked flawlessly. Updating the BIOS to the latest F3 release didn't help.

On paper, the A75 Extreme6 does well in the value department as it'south the same price as the F1A75-V while offering more features and a better layout. Even so, the F1A75-5 proved to be somewhat faster in our tests. On the other hand, the Gigabyte A75-UD4H appears to offer better build quality.

With that, we can conclude that you tin't really become wrong with either board overall, but depending on your needs you should focus on Asrock's board if you demand sure features such as its superior PCIe configuration. Value-minded folks should consider Gigabyte'southward board for its college build quality, improve overclocking capabilities and slightly lower cost. Ultimately, Asus offers the best overall solution, providing a feature-packed board with the best overall operation, solid overclocking and power consumption.