Asus m32

[psxpetey]

This is a review of the Asus M32 With the core i5 4460 and 1150 socket H81M motherboard.

 

Heres a video for those who hate reading:

 

 

The asus M32 has 5 iterations the AMD a6 4gb ramno gfx card, The AMD A8 6gb ram no gfx card  The AMD A10 12gb ram no gfx card, the intel core i5 6gb ram no gfx card, and the intel core i7 16gb ram Nvidia GTX 750. I chose the Intel core i5 version because it has a pretty good CPU which is capable of being upgraded to the top i7 1150 socket cpu 4790. I did not want a gfx card as aint nobody got time for a gtx 750 ill be going with something a little better. It has a 350w power supply which ill most likely be upgrading. The motherboard has 1 PCIe 3x16 and 2 ram slots as well as an addition PCIex4 (other is taken by wifi card). The case has a rear fan and space for a front fan (although it doesnt look like it) which exausts through the front and out the bottom of the case which I thought was pretty awesome Definitely going to be putting a fan in there!  Nothing in this PC is going to explode your brain cells but for the average user it is more than enough once an awesome graphics card is thrown in, good gaming/video editing and daily use pc. At first I was hesitant of this PC as it had bad reviews due to windows 8.1 silly things. Basically it was setup like a laptop to shut down after 20mins which is silly for a desktop if you ask me. The WIFI was set to AUTO which caused me issues because when I would leave the PC on it would shut off the WIFI card and when I logged back in I could not renable. Once I changed the setting to B/G/N and turned off WIFI power saving it was fine. Only other issue was one update it got stuck at 100% for hours which is apparently a common issue, after rebooting several times and hard reset it finally got out of the loop.Other than that its been a great PC even without a graphics card the HD 4600 seems to do faiirly well on the i5. Skyrim runs easily at medium and low, averaging around 30fps little slow on high. Tomb raider runs awesomely 30fps no problem 55fps on low as well as Shadow of Mordor and Battlefield 4 both on medium. Basically it will run any current gen game on medium. Obviously for ultra settings you will need a graphics card. Video editing it also does well, you can render a 20min video in around 30minutes 1080p.

 

 

 

Some other online reviews report that the i7 version is quite the gaming PC right out of the box. Having no trouble running afore mentioned games on high. The a10 performs not quite as well as the i5 but can run battlefeild 4 and the a8 is below that and can run battlefeild on low. With the a6 you will NEED a gfx card doing anything but daily use. 

 

For 500$ I fell I have made a very good purchase another 300 or so for a good gfx card and 60 for a 600w power supply and ill be golden.. The i7 is 999$ the a10 is 649 the a8 is 450 and the a6 is 350.

 

Update on the M32 while playing farcry 4 and available graphics cards plug and play for the asus m32: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z685gfLBIlk

[partyhardy]

Sort of hate reading, but you made a good video and Asus is a good bet. Thank you sunshine

[psxpetey]

your welcome!

[RagingCanadian10]

hey, do you think a gpu with a backplate would fit? like an r9 390 nitro with the backplate? cause it seems like it would touch the ram slots