When we reviewed the AMD Trinity APU, we felt that it fit a very specific niche almost perfectly. I think it makes for a fantastic home-theater gaming build, with the ability to play all the latest games without a discrete GPU at 720p or higher with settings that make the current gen consoles look like an Atari.

However today we’re going to look at it from a different angle, because we have the MSI FM2-A85XA-G65 in for review, and it is a full ATX motherboard that takes the Trinity APU and puts it up against the likes of the Core i3 3220 and AMD FX-4300.