ASRock Unveils FM2A85X-ITX Motherboard

btarunr · Jan 30, 2013

In what could bring an ear-to-ear grin on DIY NAS/home-server builders, ASRock launched the industry's first mini-ITX motherboard with a total of eight SATA 6 Gb/s ports (of which one is eSATA 6 Gb/s). The new FM2A85X-ITX, as the name suggests, is a socket FM2 motherboard based on the AMD A85X chipset, in the mini-ITX form-factor. Everything on this board is just where you'd want it to be: the centrally-located APU socket is powered by a fairly strong 6-phase VRM, which along with ancillary phases, draws power from 24-pin ATX and 4-pin CPU power connectors.

The APU socket, which supports today's AMD A-series "Trinity" APUs, and likely tomorrow's A-series "Richland" APUs, is wired to two DDR3-DIMM slots supporting a maximum of 32 GB of dual-channel DDR3-1866 memory; and the lone expansion slot, a PCI-Express 2.0 x16. The AMD A85X FCH wires out seven internal SATA 6 Gb/s ports (with RAID 0/1/10 support), and an eSATA 6 Gb/s port. Display connectivity includes one each of dual-link DVI, D-Sub, and HDMI. The board features a total of four USB 3.0 ports (two on the rear panel, two by headers). Gigabit Ethernet, 8-channel HD audio, PS/2 keyboard, and a number of USB 2.0/1.1 ports make for the rest of the connectivity. The ASRock FM2A85X-ITX is expected to be priced around US $110.

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Frick · Jan 30, 2013

mSATA would make that sort of grin.

brandonwh64 · Jan 30, 2013

Hope this ITX board is better than their first cause it had been know to explode MOSFET's when OCed.

http://www.overclock.net/t/1337304/asrock-fm2a75m-itx-motherboard-fire

Frick · Jan 30, 2013

brandonwh64 said:
Hope this ITX board is better than their first cause it had been know to explode MOSFET's when OCed.

http://www.overclock.net/t/1337304/asrock-fm2a75m-itx-motherboard-fire

I don't want to read through the entire thread, but is that just that one board or are there many reports?

brandonwh64 · Jan 30, 2013

Frick said:
I don't want to read through the entire thread, but is that just that one board or are there many reports?

Many reports, just google "FM2A75M-ITX fire" and see what is posted.

TheinsanegamerN · Jan 30, 2013

I dont think this one will have the fireissues. the a75 version only has a 3+1 phase vrm, this has a 4+2 phase. it was usually that 1 phase for the gpu that lit up. 2 phase should be much more stable.

RaZZ3R · Jan 30, 2013

ASRock fuck'ed me up really bad

brandonwh64 said:
Hope this ITX board is better than their first cause it had been know to explode MOSFET's when OCed.

http://www.overclock.net/t/1337304/asrock-fm2a75m-itx-motherboard-fire

After the last fiasco with ASRock FM2A75M-ITX I'm not so easy in trusting ASRock anymore. While I do like some of there products I still think about my burned 600$ PC when it went up in flames (literally) after 1 minute spent in BIOS. I really hoped that an extra heatsink with thermal glue would have helped but it didn't so it went kboom and burn my CPU water cooler and the fire went out with an epic splash on my motherboard, CPU, RAM and GPU and fried my PSU also. Should have gone with MSI FM2-A75IA-E53 but I was to stubborn . That's the problem with not many products on the market, just 2 motherboards in ITX format for FM2, now 3 with this product. I'll just have to wait for ASUS and A10-6800K for my new PC.

brandonwh64 · Jan 30, 2013

RaZZ3R said:
After the last fiasco with ASRock FM2A75M-ITX I'm not so easy in trusting ASRock anymore. While I do like some of there products I still think about my burned 600$ PC when it went up in flames (literally) after 1 minute spent in BIOS. I really hoped that an extra heatsink with thermal glue would have helped but it didn't so it went kboom and burn my CPU water cooler and the fire went out with an epic splash on my motherboard, CPU, RAM and GPU and fried my PSU also. Should have gone with MSI FM2-A75IA-E53 but I was to stubborn . That's the problem with not many products on the market, just 2 motherboards in ITX format for FM2, now 3 with this product. I'll just have to wait for ASUS and A10-6800K for my new PC.

Its not ASRocks fault if you were OCing a CPU on a media style board that is suppose to be used at stock settings.

Frick · Jan 30, 2013

RaZZ3R said:
After the last fiasco with ASRock FM2A75M-ITX I'm not so easy in trusting ASRock anymore. While I do like some of there products I still think about my burned 600$ PC when it went up in flames (literally) after 1 minute spent in BIOS. I really hoped that an extra heatsink with thermal glue would have helped but it didn't so it went kboom and burn my CPU water cooler and the fire went out with an epic splash on my motherboard, CPU, RAM and GPU and fried my PSU also. Should have gone with MSI FM2-A75IA-E53 but I was to stubborn . That's the problem with not many products on the market, just 2 motherboards in ITX format for FM2, now 3 with this product. I'll just have to wait for ASUS and A10-6800K for my new PC.

If the motherboard did that, I'm pretty sure Asrock would replace all of the stuff you lost. Unless you were overclocking of course.

Kinda sad because i totally love Asrock.

brandonwh64 · Jan 30, 2013

All board manufacturers are not perfect. MSI has had the same issues with there lower end boards like the one I have (785GTM-E45) and the same issue with weak mosfets caused failures twice now and if it blows again I will karate chop this motherboard and make sure it cannot be see by man ever again...

seronx · Jan 30, 2013

A85X series has more VRMs than the A75 series.

My general rule is don't overclock if you have a 4-pin ATX.

Ikaruga · Jan 30, 2013

RaZZ3R said:
After the last fiasco with ASRock FM2A75M-ITX I'm not so easy in trusting ASRock anymore.

There were times when a whole truck of Asrock motherboard arrived in a state where the cheap KZG caps just fell off from the boards when you removed them from the antistatic bag. It was all defective and Asrock put their name on it.
If you see things from that perspective, you could say that it's much better now than how it was 7-8 years ago, more to that, I have to admit that some boards from the Sandy Bridge generation were quite good and well made

Disparia · Jan 30, 2013

Having all 8 SATA ports internal or 7 ports + mSATA would have been the bees knees, but 7 internal ports on mITX is still pretty nice.

RejZoR · Jan 30, 2013

I wouldn't mind if more vendors released more microATX boards. The selection is really poor compared to like 3 years ago...

xorbe · Jan 30, 2013

Someone has one of these already and said the temps are fixed:
http://www.overclock.net/t/1353566/asrock-fm2a85x-itx-the-ultimate-fm2-itx-mobo-to-lust-for
I'm cautiously optimistic.

cadaveca · Jan 30, 2013

I have one of these boards for review. Burn-in Testing will begin on Friday.

brandonwh64 · Jan 30, 2013

cadaveca said:
I have one of these boards for review. Burn-in Testing will begin on Friday.

BrooksyX · Jan 30, 2013

cadaveca said:
I have one of these boards for review. Burn-in Testing will begin on Friday.

Nice, sounds like you might want to have the fire extinguisher ready. :laugh:

Sinzia · Jan 30, 2013

This would sound like a good home server, a shame there's one esata port and its not another internal port tho.

TheGuruStud · Jan 30, 2013

At least they're not ECS :roll:

Their mid and high end boards are fine. Z77/970 extreme 4 and 990fx pro builds I have done are running great, even when OCed.

They've actually become my go to board for anything in that sector b/c they're built well and are much cheaper than competitors. Microcenter also has great deals/combos on them :cool:

blibba · Jan 30, 2013

Sinzia said:
This would sound like a good home server, a shame there's one esata port and its not another internal port tho.

You can always route a sata cable out of the back of the case and into the I/O panel if you're desperate.

TheGuruStud · Jan 30, 2013

blibba said:
You can always route a sata cable out of the back of the case and into the I/O panel if you're desperate.

This makes me want to upgrade my server as 6 on the low end 760 chipset isn't enough (so I stuck in a raid card :laugh:

).

blibba · Jan 30, 2013

TheGuruStud said:
This makes me want to upgrade my server as 6 on the low end 760 chipset isn't enough (so I stuck in a raid card ).

What case are you using with that many drives and no MATX mobo support, out of interest?

TheGuruStud · Jan 30, 2013

blibba said:
What case are you using with that many drives and no MATX mobo support, out of interest?

The MB is microatx and the case is a midtower. Fractal Design Arc Midi Black High Performance PC ...
I was commenting in here b/c I'm looking for something more low power (SoC ITX with lots of satas hopefully, but unlikely).

50 bucks during BF crapfest (one of the few good things). I bought 5 of them

blibba · Jan 30, 2013

TheGuruStud said:
The MB is microatx and the case is a midtower. Fractal Design Arc Midi Black High Performance PC ...
I was commenting in here b/c I'm looking for something more low power (SoC ITX with lots of satas hopefully, but unlikely).

50 bucks during BF crapfest (one of the few good things). I bought 5 of them

Seems like the best value bet would be a lame old C2D era MATX board with an undervolted chip and some PCI sata cards.

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