Oh, the ECS A55F-M4 V2.0 board is capable of bus-overclocking, and I'm at 3.1 GHz right now. That's about 1125 single-thread score, exceeding Celeron G470 that still sells for $27 shipped on eBay.
I was going to ask if that combo could do any overclocking. That's good to hear. I had a 3650K (I think that was it), that I overclocked to 3.0, from 2.7. At least, I think I did. There was some talk about LLano being able to increase the multiplier in BIOS, but it didn't actually clock the chip up. But that makes kind of no sense, if they are sold with unlocked multipliers. If they are sold that way, then they should work.
What does CPU-Z 1.75 benchmark give you for scores, @ 3.1?
Edit: I don't know if this FM1 business is one big elaborate troll or what, but I contemplated it, and I was looking at motherboards and stuff on Newegg's ebay store, and came to a final conclusion that this FM1 deal wasn't so bad, price-wise, and if everything works in Windows 10, it might be a worthwhile purchase, for a limited-usage box.
I really only had one client in mind for the rig, but I bought three of them.
(That client has an E5200 with a G41 GMA graphics onboard, no HDMI, no AHCI either.)
Too bad that these FM1 boards don't have SATA6G ports, that's my only disappointment. They have HDMI and USB3.0, I think, and if they have UEFI, then I suppose that they're modern enough for modern OSes like Win10.
