April 15 2011 review by ixbtlabs

This mobo has a good set of features. Four SATA3 connectors make it a nice foundation for a HTPC, home server or a shared storage PC. USB3 lets you use the highest-speed external devices today. The fan controls could be better, installing a custom cooler will void the warranty, because the panel is pressed into the heatsink.

Benchmarks:

7Zip, Crysis, Devil May Cry 4, Far Cry 2, WinRAR, World in Conlict, x264, XviD.

Test Setup:

• CPU : AMD Phenom II X4 810
• HDD : Seagate BaRAM : acuda 7200.10 7200rpm
• Memory : 2 x 2GB Apacer DDR3-1333 CL9
• OS: Windows Vista SP1 x64
• Power Supply : AcBel ATX-550CA-AB8FB
• Video Card : ATI RADEON HD4850, 512 MB GDDR3

Overclocking:

The motherboard doesn't allow overclocking the processor. It only lets you adjust memory frequency and timings.

April 8 2011 review by vr-zone

This cheap, Space-saving, mini-desktop cannot be compared to a 'real desktop' computer, especially in gaming, on the other hand the AMD APU is sufficient for office use and surfing the web. The power consumption is app. the same as a laptop, and it generates virtually no heat.

Benchmarks Tested:

3D Mark 2006, 7zip, AIDA64, Cinebench, Power Consumption, Resident Evil V, SuperPi, Temperature testing, Winrar.

Overclocking:

The reviewers did not perform any overclocking, Overclocking is not available on this board.

Compared To:

This mainboard was not compared to another board.

Test Setup:

• HDD : Western Digital Scorpio Black 750GB
• Mainboard : MSI E350IS-E45
• Memory : 2x2GB Kingston HyperX DDR3 'LoVo' 1600MHz
• Power Supply : FSP 300W SFX

3-5-2011 review by pcper

This mobo did better than than the reviewers expected. It outperformed previous results in basic gaming tests as well as the CPU utilization in Flash. This mainboard is cheap yet has features like SATA3 and USB3. The power consumption was relatively low and the performance was better than the results with Intel's Atom, this board is a great option for people looking for a mini-ITX PC.

Compared To:

AMD E-350 1.6 GHz APU, Intel SU2300 CULV + ION, Intel Atom D510 + NM10.

Benchmarks:

3D Mark Vantage, Blu-ray playback, CineBench 10 and 11.5, Flash 10.1 video playback, HTML5-based IE9 tests, Left 4 Dead 2, MP3 encoding, PC Mark Vantage, Power Consumption, SiSoft Sandra 2011, Valve multi-core CPU tests.