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MSI A75MA-G55 AMD Socket FM1 Motherboard Review

Manufacturer: Micro-Star International
Product: MSI A75MA-G55
Date: Tue, Jul 26, 2011 - 08:00 AM
Written By: Dan Stoltz -
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SuperSpeed USB 3.0 Performance Testing

HD Tach is a low level hardware benchmark for random access read/write storage devices such as hard drives, removable drives (ZIP/JAZZ), flash devices, and RAID arrays. HD Tach uses custom device drivers and other low level Windows interfaces to bypass as many layers of software as possible and get as close to the physical performance of the device as possible.

HD Tach

Testing of the USB3 was done using the SUNBEAMTECH Airbox USB3.0 External Hard Drive Enclosure. The drive used was a Crucial Technology RealSSD C300 SSD.

MSI A75MA-G55 USB3 HD Tach Benchmark Results

Benchmark Results: The USB 3.0 performance on the MSI A75MA-G55 was far from impressive. The average read was only 37.8MB/s and the average write was only 34.8MB/s. With the enclosure that we use there seems to be an issue between the two components. We contacted MSI USA who contacted MSI Taiwan and they are working on sorting out the issue.

HD Tune Pro 4.01 is an extended version of HD Tune which includes many new features such as write benchmark, secure erasing, AAM setting, folder usage view, disk monitor, command line parameters and file benchmark.

HD Tune

HD Tune

Our testing of the USB 3.0 performance was done using the SUNBEAMTECH Airbox USB3.0 External Hard Drive Enclosure. The drive used was a Crucial Technology RealSSD C300 SSD.

MSI A75MA-G55 USB3 HD Tune Benchmark Results

Benchmark Results: HD Tune is showing us the same issue as above. The Average Read was only 34.6MB/s and the Average Write was only 33.7MB/s.

MSI A75MA-G55 Super Speed USB 3.0 Results

To confirm that the USB 3.0 works properly we fired up a Thermaltake BlacX 5G USB 3.0 dock with an OCZ Vertex 3 SSD. As we can see above, the MSI A75MA-G55 didn't have any issues running this with some pretty impressive numbers. It was able to average 211.5MB/s read and 151.9MB/s write.

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Review Index
Page 1 - MSI A75MA-G55 Motherboard Review
Page 2 - Retail Packaging
Page 3 - Motherboard Layout
Page 4 - MSI A75MA-G55 Click BIOS
Page 5 - The Legit Reviews Test System
Page 6 - SiSoftware Sandra 2011 SP3 Memory Bandwidth
Page 7 - MSI A75MA-G55 IGP Directx 9 Performance
Page 8 - MSI A75MA-G55 IGP DirectX 11 Performance
Page 9 - MSI A75MA-G55 Dedicated Card performance
Page 10 - Futuremark 3DMark11 Synthetic Gaming Benchmark with Discrete Graphics
Page 11 - Futuremark 3DMark Vantage Synthetic Benchmark
Page 12 - Rightmark Audio Analyzer
Page 13 - SATA III 6Gbps Performance Testing
Page 14 - SuperSpeed USB 3.0 Performance Testing
Page 15 - MSI A75MA-G55 System Power Consumption
Page 16 - Overclocking the MSI A75MA-G55 APU Motherboard
Page 17 - Final Thoughts and Conclusion