Asrock fm2a75 pro4 review cpu support năm 2024

The ASRock FM2A75 Pro4 uses the AMD Socket FM2 CPU socket. Any compatible AMD CPU will have the same socket entry. It uses the DDR3 memory type, with maximum speeds of up to 2133 MHz, and 4 DDR3 slots allowing for a maximum total of 64 GB RAM.

Released on 04 Sep 2012, the ASRock FM2A75 Pro4 is now over 11 years old, which means it is extremely out of date and is based on very aged technologies. This motherboard will be dwarfed in performance by its modern counterparts, and will likely have very little support from ASRock.

Conforming to the ATX standard, the ASRock FM2A75 Pro4 should fit into the majority of cases. ATX is the most common form factor, and as such has a high degree of compatibility with other components while providing a decent number of slots to widen your expansion options.

The ASRock FM2A75 Pro4 has 5 SATA 3.0 hard drive slots. These allow for theoretical data transfer speeds of up to 6GB/s, as opposed to the 3GB/s of SATA 2.0. Generally speaking, only high performance hard drives, specifically solid-state drives, will be able to take advantage of the bandwidth potential of SATA 3.0 ports, though it is backwards compatible, so you do not have to take advantage.

The ASRock FM2A75 Pro4 supports onboard graphics. This allows for integrated graphics when paired with a compatible CPU that supports them. Integrated graphics are a cheap alternative to using a graphics card, but should be avoided when frequently using modern applications or games that require intense graphical processing. There are 2 PCIe x16 slots on this motherboard. This means it is perfectly capable of accommodating the latest graphics cards, although it is important to try and use a graphics card with the same graphics card interface of PCIe v2.x, as anything below will not reach the motherboard's potential, and anything above will have its performance slashed to the bandwidth maximum of the ASRock FM2A75 Pro4's PCIe v2.x. The ASRock FM2A75 Pro4 supports up to 4 AMD Crossfire connected graphics cards for improved overall graphical performance at the cost of multiplied graphics-based power consumption as well as the price of the cards themselves. Nvidia SLI is not supported.

The ASRock FM2A75 Pro4 has 3 USB 2.0 slots and 7 USB 3.0 slots. USB 3.0 slots are theoretically capable of data transfer speeds of up to 5 Gbit/s, which is over 10 times faster than the USB 2.0 top speed of 480 Mbit/s. Although USB 2.0 slots alone currently serve as well as ever, an upgrade would better future-proof your system as more USB 3.0 compatible peripherals emerge. USB 3.0 is also backwards compatible with USB 2.0, which means you do not even have to use the newer slot functionality if you do not wish to.

This mid-range FM2 motherboard uses AMD’s A75 chipset and supports the second-generation A-series of processors. Its M suffix denotes it’s the microATX version of its larger cousin, the Pro4, but there’s still plenty of features here to suit all types of users.

With five SATA3 ports located in the front corner, there’s no need to compromise on speed and you can happily get the most out of a fast SSD, while leaving enough ports free for tons of hard disks. USB support is equally as good, with two USB3 and four USB ports on the back panel, and one USB3 and two USB headers for further expansion. There is also one eSATA3 port, five 3.5mm audio jacks for 7.1 analogue sound and a S/PDIF output, as well as a Gigabit Ethernet and a PS/2 port.

There’s the usual VGA, DVI-D and HDMI graphics outputs, so you can use the processor’s on-chip GPU. Asrock also states that all three outputs can be used at the same time, so you can run up to three monitors from the processor’s graphics chip, which means you may not need a discrete graphics card at all.

There’s a decent amount of room for expansion, too, including four DDR3 DIMM memory slots for a maximum of 64GB of RAM that can run up to speeds of 2,600MHz when overclocked. There are also two PCI-E x16 slots that can be used in CrossfireX mode with two graphics cards, Crossfire X and Dual Graphics mode, but only one of these will run at the full bandwidth, with the other running at x4. Elsewhere, there’s one PCI slot and one PCI-E x1 slot, although the latter will get blocked if you install a graphics card.

The FM2A75 Pro4-M’s performance was more or less spot-on in our benchmark tests, as our AMD A10-5800K processor and 4GB of 1600MHz DDR3 scored 63 overall. We’ve seen faster scores for this processor, but this is still roughly what we’d expect to see from an A10-5800K. Overclocking is easy, too, as its UEFI BIOS is very easy to navigate.

Asrock’s FM2A75 Pro4-M is a great micro-ATX motherboard with a wide range of features, but there’s very little to distinguish it from the similarly-priced and budget-buy winning Gigabyte F2A85XM-D3H. We much prefer Asrock’s BIOS interface, but ultimately it’s just not as good a deal as Gigabyte’s A85X-based board. Still, if you can find this motherboard cheaper elsewhere, it’s still a great choice.