FM1

Looks like we have our first non-APU processor on AMD’s FM1 socket! AMD’s upcoming Athlon II X4 631 has become official and will be sporting an overall clock speed of 2.6 GHz with four cores and 1MB of L2 cache per core with a total TDP of 100W. What makes this particularly interesting is the [...]

AMD’s “Llano” APUs have been turning heads since they were released last month and while we have previewed a handful of motherboards so far, MSI just released a brand new board sporting the FM1 socket – the A75A-G55. While this motherboard has a lot in common with its mATX-sized little brother, MSI was able to [...]

It has been nearly a month since we took a look at MSI’s high-end A75MA-G55 “Llano” motherboard, which features AMD’s A75 chipset and FM1 socket with a mATX form factor. Well, thanks to the folks over at VR-Zone, we now have MSI’s first ATX “Llano” motherboard for your preview pleasure, the A75A-G35, which will reportedly be followed by [...]

A couple of days ago ASUS announced two FM1A75 motherboards, which feature AMD’s FM1 socket, which is compatible with their “Llano” APUs, and their A75 chipset. Both of these motherboards, the FM1A75-V Pro and FM1A75-V Evo, feature ASUS’ DIGI+ VRM power delivery system, a UEFI BIOS, loads of internal connectivity (4x USB 2.0 internal headers, [...]

Just moments ago we previewed a couple of GIGABYTE’s upcoming A75 “Llano” motherboards and here we are switching gears a little to take a look at an A75 board from another brand as, earlier today, the folks over at VR-Zone revealed some photos of what will be one of ASRock’s premiere A75 motherboards, the A75 Pro4.

After much anticipation, motherboard manufacturer, GIGABYTE, has officially revealed four of their “Llano” motherboards sporting AMD’s FM1 socket. While we are expecting to see twelve boards in total, it’s nice to see four get official. Of these four, we have two using a standard ATX size (GA-A75-D3H and GA-A75-UD4H) and two mATX boards (GA-A75M-D2H and [...]

With no announcements regarding AMD’s upcoming desktop processors, their focus at Computex 2011 was on their upcoming “Llano” APU. Now, thanks to the folks over at German hardware site Computer Base, we have two mini-ITX “Llano” motherboards, complete with FM1 socket and A75 chipset, for your preview pleasure.

Here we go with another AMD “Llano” motherboard for your viewing pleasure. This time, the folks over at Tech Power Up have posted an image of Sapphire’s upcoming Pure Platinum A75 motherboard, which uses the AMD FM1 socket. This board has a couple of very interesting features that make this a very impressive “Llano” motherboard.

With Computex 2011 less than two weeks away, we are expecting a plethora of product leaks leading up their announcements in keynotes at the show. Today, we have a relatively small leak that provides a couple of high-level details for a couple of upcoming ASRock AMD motherboards – the 990FX Extreme4 and the A75 Extreme6. 

AMD is getting ready to launch their latest APU Fusion platform, codenamed “Llano”, sometime next month. Yesterday, the folks over at WCCF Tech previewed the upcoming A8-3530MX APU, which features a quad-core CPU at 1.9 GHz with turbo of 2.6 GHz as well as Radeon HD 6620G integrated graphics. But, more recently, the folks over [...]