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BIOSTAR A68N-5200 Motherboard Review

Motherboards/IntegratedCPU by stefan @ 2016-01-19

The A68N-5200 board, by incorporating one A6-5200 Kabini-based APU, is bringing to the table even more raw performance when compared to its A4-5000, while the GPU component gets a 100Mhz boost. While the increased 3D performance is minimal versus the A4, other tasks which require CPU performance will get up to 25% performance boost. Despite the fact that this is a cheap and low-powered board, BIOSTAR saw fit to include a fully-fledged UEFI interface which also contains some performance tuning options. Last but not least, we do get with the A68N-5200 one very-welcome PCI-E 2.0 x16 (x4 electrical) which invites us to install a dedicated video card.

A Closer Look Part II

The ATX 4-pin power connector is also located nearby:

The vicinity also exposes the CPU VRM components:

One SPDIF OUT connector is available for us quite close to the CPU fan connector:

For this board, BIOSTAR has opted to use one REALTEK 8111G Gigabit LAN controller:

The audio CODEC, REALTEK ALC662 is placed near the PCI-E slot:

Near the APU area, we will also spot two USB 2.0 headers along with two SATA headers:

One ITE IT8728F SuperIO monitoring chip is also placed here:

On the bottom right area of the PCB, we will get to see the F_PANEL header, the CMOS Reset jumper, the BIOS chip, one COM header but also one LPT header:

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