ASUS F1A75-M PRO Pro Reviews

The ASUS F1A75-M Pro definitely has strong points and not-so strong points, but overall it performs to a level which you may have expected from a mid-range A75 motherboard. For the features which you get with this motherboard and how it performs, it certainly is not a bad contender in its price bracket of around $110 from Newegg. As with most A75 boards, dual discrete graphics cards in a Llano based system is made possible due to the fact that ASUS have included two full length PCIe slots - however, there are two issues with this. The first problem being the fact that users may be somewhat limited due to the second slot being positioned right at the bottom of the board (as an mATX motherboard would typically be in an mATX sized case, there may not be enough room to fit a dual slot GPU). The second issue is with the chipset being limited to providing a x16/x4 PCIe lane split. This really limits the second slot to any x1/x4 sound or RAID cards at best.

As of July 2011 the ASUS F1A75-M Pro is priced for $120 at Newegg, the ASUS F1A75-M Pro motherboard sits pretty close to the top of the A75 motherboards in price. The most expensive are around $130, with the least expensive coming in around $70. Of course, on those really inexpensive motherboards, you won't find features like DIGI+ VRM, TPU, EPU, MemOK! and all the others we've mentioned. High quality components also feature into the mix, as do a full four DIMM slots. My point here, I suppose, is that ASUS products generally run a little more expensive than other products. They have the reputation and features to support it, so I'd say it's worth it, but I would never complain if I found an ASUS product a little more toward the middle or low-end of the price scale.

If you are a casual gamer looking to put a DirectX 11 capable system together on a budget or plan on running a discrete graphics card, the ASUS F1A75-M Pro has everything that we have come to love from ASUS! Performance, Price, and features make the ASUS F1A75-M Pro a motherboard that should be at the top of your short list!