14 DAY TRIAL // It appears that the impending arrival of AMD's Llano accelerated processing units has led to a veritable stream of motherboard launches, one that ASUS gladly joined by presenting its F1A75-V models.
Advanced Micro Devices may not have yet officially launched its Llano accelerated processing units (APUs), but this doesn't mean its partners are going to stay silent while they wait for the event.
This is not to say that the chip will come earlier from any other source, but that motherboards designed with the A75 chipset have already shown up.
It is this very sort of motherboards that ASUS has now completed, two of them to be exact, with the names of F1A75-V EVO and F1A75-V Pro.
They have quite a few things in common, and this extends to more than just the connectivity and I/O capabilities (USB 3.0, eSATA, Gigabit Ethernet, 7.1 channel audio, D-Sub, DVI and HDMI).
In fact, with their FM1 sockets, they boast a Dual intelligent Processors 2 setup, which means that both a TPU (TurboV Processing Unit) and en EPU (Energy processing Unit).
There are four DDR3 RAM (random access memory) slots on both platforms, as there are seven SATA ports, of which at least six are of the SATA 6.0 Gbps variety.
Three PCI Express x16 slots will let one set up multi-GPU CrossFireX configurations, although the Dual Graphics technology is also present.
For those that want an update, the Dual Graphics technology can link the APU's integrated GPU with a mainstream graphics adapter, for up to 128% better performance.
All the above are made to fit on the ATX form factor, along with UEFI BIOS and advanced overclocking abilities. Prices, unfortunately, have not been made clear, but since the two will come out next month, this final mystery (along with the exact difference between the boards) will be unraveled soon.