14 DAY TRIAL // While we are still a few weeks away from the official launch of AMD's Llano accelerated processing units (APUs), ECS has already sent out a press release to announce its first FM1 motherboards that will support the yet-unveiled processors.
The new ECS motherboard series will be comprised of three models which include the Black Deluxe ECS A75F-A, and the mainstream A75F-M and A75F-M2 motherboards.
All of these are based on the AMD A75 chipset, also known as the Hudson D3, which offers native support for USB 3.0 and SATA 6Gbps.
Starting with the most feature rich of the three models, the A75F-A Black Deluxe, this packs four DDR3 memory slots, four USB 3.0 ports, five SATA 6.0Gbps connectors and an additional eSATA 6.0Gbps port, one PCIex16 slot, HDMI, DVI and D-Sub video outputs as well as 8-channel HD audio with S/PDIF out.
The A75F-A uses the micro-ATX form factor, unlike the two other motherboards which come as mATX offerings.
As far as the feature list is concerned, the A75F-M looks remarkably similar to the Black Deluxe model, just that it doesn't feature a 6Gbps eSATA port.
The last model of the three, the A75F-M2, is a cut-back version of the A75F-M and drops two of the DDR3 slots of its older brother and also comes with a simpler audio codec which supports only 5.1-channel sound and loses the S/PDIF output.
All the motherboards use the FM1 socket and are compatible with AMD's upcoming Llano APUs.
These use the company's K10.5+/Husky x86 processor architecture and pair it together with a DirectX 11 compatible on-die GPU.
This can feature up to six SIMD engines with 80 stream processors each and the GPU is also accompanied by an integrated dual-channel DDR3 memory controller, a PCI Express controller, up to 4MB of cache and select CPUs even pack AMD's Turbo Core 2.0 dynamic acceleration technology.
The first AMD Llano accelerated processing units are expected to arrive on June 1, at the Computex 2011 fair.