14 DAY TRIAL // The steadily growing list of motherboards designed for the AMD A-Series of accelerated processing units has again grown, this time thanks to an addition from Micro-Star International, much to no one's real shock.
There is hardly anything surprising about the fact that the past week saw the appearance of a bunch of AMD-based motherboards.
Since the A-Series of accelerated processing units (APUs), otherwise known as Llano, are already up for order on the mainstream, it only makes sense that platforms designed for it would debut as well.
Coming to join ASUS, ASRock, ECS and Biostar is MSI, per online reports, for a price of under 80 Euro.
The platform in question is the MSI A75MA-G55 micro-ATX motherboard with a pair of PCI Express x16 slot.
Other things that the outfit was able to put on this micro-ATX device are a PCI slot, a PCI Express x1 slot, USB 3.0 (SuperSpeed), SATA 6.0 Gbps support and four DDR3 DDR3-1866 (OC) memory slots (for up to 32 GB of RAM).
What's more, MSI threw in Military Class II components, like Hi-c Caps and SFC, for a current capacity up to 30% higher than possible on standard ones. Solid CAPs are also on the endurance-adding component list.
Not only that, but Click BIOS is present, along with an HDMI output, a DVI port and a D-Sub, plus eight USB 2.0 ports in addition to the four USB 3.0 ones already mentioned.
Finally, Gigabit LAN is present and, naturally, the Hudson D3 chipset will support socket DM1, A8, A6, A4 and E2 APUs.
Interested users should be able to soon find the MSI A75MA-G55 up for order online, if it hasn't already been listed that is. Whether or not more, and perhaps larger format, A75 MSI platforms debut, and when, is something that remains to be seen.