14 DAY TRIAL // It appears that Gigabyte doesn't mind acting a bit faster than its rivals, this once at least, as some of the motherboards intended for AMD's as yet unannounced Llano desktop chips have been officially unveiled.
The Fusion technology from Advanced Micro Devices has already spawned a number of accelerated processing units.
Still, the official launch of the company's Llano units, the mainstream APUs for desktops, won't happen for about a week yet.
Nevertheless, this doesn't mean that motherboard makers can't act any faster, as this is precisely what Gigabyte has now done.
Four of the mainboards that will eventually grace the market with their presence have been added to the official website.
The GA-A75-UD4H and GA-A75-D3H feature the full ATX form factor, while the GA-A75M-UD2H and GA-A75M-D2H are of the microATX variety. All of them, as their names imply, utilize the AMD A75 chipset.
All four newcomers have different memory and I/O options but do share some similarities, such as the Super4 features (Super Safe, Super Speed, Super Savings and Super sound).
The highlight of the revelation, however, is the set of optimizations that Gigabyte made to the BIOS and everything that has to do with graphics.
AMD's Llano APUs won't have breakneck CPU performance, so their graphics will be the main selling point. As such, Gigabyte made it so that said built-in GPUs work faster than AMD's initial plans, enabling, according to the folks over the VR-Zone, a score of over P6000 points in 3DMark Vantage.
To be more specific, the system was based on the A75M-UD2H motherboard and the A8-3850 APU (3.77 GHz) on a 145MHz bus, while the IGP ran at 870 MHz and the DDR3 at 2,320 MHz.
The APUs will debut in about a week, at which point these four mainbaords, along with all other Gigabyte models on the way, will be priced and sent out.