Socket-A AMD 760 Motherboard Roundup: Farewell to a Beauty

FIC AD11

Click to Enlarge

FIC worked very closely with AMD in developing their DDR platform, allowing them to be one of the first to release a 760 solution, the AD11. Shortly before this roundup, we received an updated revision of the board from FIC, which now has a full HSF unit on the AMD 761 North Bridge. FIC also told us that there are some minor changes on the board for better performance, which seem to be borne out in our test results.

The HSF unit actually uses one of the system fan headers.

The board does not have any settings for I/O voltage, but it does have clock multiplier and CPU core voltage control through two sets of dipswitches. FIC sells the AD11 with a stick of Smart Technology 128MB PC2100 DDR SDRAM as an option. The memory is of quite high quality, and so far the memory has worked great in our lab.

The AD11 is a very nice board for the average user, but overclockers might want to look elsewhere.