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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.

The BIOS Interface Part II

Smart Fan Control is the place to go on the first boot because if this feature is disabled, the fan will run at max settings and it is really loud; we can also calibrate the fan here and adjust different PWM settings:

The SuperIO Configuration menu allows us to work with both Serial and Parallel Port interfaces:

From the PC Health Status (H/W Monitor) menu, we will be able to monitor temperatures, fan speeds and voltages, but also enable some related settings:

Network Stack menu has a single option we can work with:

The Chipset section also has some sub-menus available:

-South Bridge

-North Bridge

-Onboard Device

The South Bridge menu takes care of some custom USB configuration options but also here we can enable or disable the audio features:

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