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benjamin b.

benjamin b.

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Issue with A10-7850k

GIGABYTE GA-F2A88XN-WIFI FM2+ / FM2 AMD A88X (Bolton D4) SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 HDMI Mini ITX AMD Motherboard
GIGABYTE GA-F2A88XN-WIFI FM2+ / FM2 AMD A88X (Bolton D4) SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 HDMI Mini ITX AMD Motherboard

Pros: Nicely specked board on non marking junk. The marketing junk I couldn't really care otherwise. I like the overall placement of parts and locations of connections.

Cons: DOES NOT SUPPORT Kaveri out of the box, requiring me to order a 50$ cpu to get it to work. Would have been nice to note that the CPU requires another older CPU for it to post before installing new cpu.

Overall Review: Too bad not possible to upgrade BOIS via some odd non cpu related mechanism.

Meh

Zotac Mini PC ZBOX ZBOX-PI320-W2 Z3735F (1.33 GHz) 2GB DDR3 32GB eMMC SSD Intel HD Graphics Windows 8.1 with Bing
Zotac Mini PC ZBOX ZBOX-PI320-W2 Z3735F (1.33 GHz) 2GB DDR3 32GB eMMC SSD Intel HD Graphics Windows 8.1 with Bing

Pros: Small, no fans, low power and quiet.

Cons: DOES not support 64 bit EFI booting or 32bit BIOS boot. Will only boot 32bit EFI. Getting linux to run on this computer is still very much a work in progress. Grub2 is not easily supported. CPU will run 64bit code but on-board EFI is 32bit and will only boot to a 32bit EFI boot loader. Contacted support for a possible 64bit EFI or 32bit bios load and no luck. 99%~ of the systems out there run either 32bit BIOS or 64bit EFI not 32bit EFI Windows 10 32bit will load and install no issue however no drivers at this time for wifi and video. If you are looking to run 64bit windows or linux look elsewhere. Support for this product both from Intel and Zotac was lack luster. Disappointed would some things up.

Overall Review: Was looking for a small portable Python testing computer running x86. Will have to look elsewhere. BTW I abhor windows 8.1

11/30/2014
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Not AM4 compatible.

Was listed as "AMD compatible" But apparently not AM4.

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