Besides mini-PCs, we at MadShrimps do really enjoy testing out tiny boards with integrated CPUs; solutions from AMD are even more interesting because the iGPU is most of the time more powerful than the Intel counterparts. BIOSTAR has recently built a board based on AMD Carrizo (AMD FX-8800P Processor) that was considered top-tier from this series back in 2015 and contains two Excavator CPU modules (4 integer and 2 FP units counted as 4 compute cores). The SoC does also include a Radeon R7 iGPU with 8 compute cores (512 shaders), support for DDR4-2133MHz and a video engine (includes UVD6 with hardware HEVC decoding).

The product is shipped inside a medium-sized cardboard enclosure, featuring the new BIOSTAR design:

Some of the product highlights are explained on the back:

After lifting the box cover, we will unveil the multiple compartments inside that hold the mainboard, along with its bundle:

Regarding the bundle, we can remind of the Installation Guide, the disk with drivers and documentation, two SATA cables but also one I/O shield:

The manual does explain the necessary steps in order to get everything started:

An in-depth explanation of the board components is also available here:

The board is further protected inside with an anti-static bag:

A10N-8800E board comes with a black PCB, while the PCI-E slot and the memory slots are colored yellow; there is enough space between the components, but we must assure decent ventilation if the board will be installed inside a case. The M.2 Key M 16Gb/s slot does support different size PCI-E & SATA SSDs: