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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 III

The 24-pin ATX power connector is accompanied by a SYSTEM fan header, but also by the CMOS battery:

The PCI-E slot is ideal for installing low-end to mainstream video cards, sports version 2.0 and is only x4 electrical:

On this system we can install up to 16GB of DDR3 RAM, thanks to the two available memory slots:

The small fan placed on the aluminum sink is enough to cool our APU at speeds much lower than the max in normal usage conditions:

Here is also a look on the back side of the motherboard, where the manufacturer has placed a sticker with the product serial numbers:

On the I/O we do have one PS/2 keyboard and mouse port, one HDMI port, one VGA port, two USB 3.0 ports, two USB 2.0 ports, one LAN port but also the 3.5mm audio jacks:

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