ASUS F1A75-M Pro AMD A75 Socket FM1 Crossfire Motherboard Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2012-05-07
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today I'm going to be doing my first socket fm1 motherboard unboxing this is
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the ASUS f1a 75m Pro it uses the AMD a75
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chipset as I mentioned before fm1 socket this is a brand new socket this is for
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special chips cuz I can't even call them CPUs anymore that are called apus so
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they have a CPU component a graphicss component and that is a DirectX 11 ready
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Graphics component so let's Dive Right into this so we've got A8 Vision or E2
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Vision I'm actually not familiar with that what that means but the chip that
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I'll be trying this with is actually an A8 CP GPU Apu sorry it's an APU so that
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is what I will be having uh in terms of my experience this A8 Vision level okay
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we have Digi plus vrm that's nice to see on a microatx board UEFI iOS also great
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to see uh their TPU and epu processors
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for performance and Energy savings respectively USB 3 is featured on this
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chipset and let's have a look at the back so the digi plus vrm they're
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showing you that lower interference is better I should certainly think so and
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giving us a little bit more information about those features so the epu is all
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about uh detecting your current PC loadings and automatically adjusting the
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Energy savings TPU is for Turbo they've got their auto system level up up autot
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tuning that's available in the BIOS as well and the ufi BIOS allows you to use
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a mouse their their ufi BIOS layout is actually outstanding so uh I would
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definitely recommend using it if you have this board not that you'll have a
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choice you'll have to use it okay oh this is a slightly different packaging
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layout than I've seen on isus motherboards before so let's take the
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board out really quick here and let's uh have a look at what they've done with
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their accessories okay we've got two SATA 3 6
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GB per second cable yes this is SATA 3 6 GB per second
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native motherboard so the chipset supports you don't need any third party
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chips and that is six ports so they're both straight to right angle cables we
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have a user's guide which includes a driver DVD as well as a powered by Aus
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sticker download the latest drivers off Theus or AMD website next we have an IO
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Shield which is helpfully labeled in terms of what's what now let's have a
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look at the board itself okay
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this is going to be a good unboxing because it's the first one of a brand
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new platform I'm always excited about that kind of stuff so why don't we start
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right here this is the socket fm1 now it
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looks similar to socket am3 but it's not quite the same first of all I want you
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guys to notice these blocked off pins right here can you see those okay so
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those blocked off pins right there right away you know socket fm1 if you can't
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read so you're not going to even be able to physically fit older am2 or am3
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processors into thisof socket now I also want to show you guys how to tell which
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way to orient your CPU there's a little triangle right there you're going to
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match that up with a little gold triangle on the bottom of your chip
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that's the way to put it in you lift up your lever you put CPU and you lock it
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down that's how it works it works with A4 A6 and A8 apus and you will have full
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support for onboard Graphics remember uh one of their competitors had kind of a
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silly platform before where depending on which CPU you plugged in you did or
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didn't have access to the onboard Graphics it will all work no problem
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okay we've got our eight pin power in its ideal location up at the top left
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corner of the board we have a CPU pwm fan header right there we have support
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for dual Channel DDR3 memory up to four
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slots just like that we have our epu and
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TPU switches right here we've also got a memo k switch so what that means is no
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matter what memory you're running in here you can press the memo okay button to boot it up and the memory will run at
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a safe setting so you can get into the BIOS and make any adjustments to the
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timings and speed our 24 pin connectors in its ideal location along the right
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hand Edge we've got another pwm chassis fan controller we've got our chipset
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here which is excellent to see it's got a little tiny heat sink on it so it's
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clearly not doing much uh most of the most of the cool stuff is happening up
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here in the Apu we've got six theta 3 6
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gbit per second ports those are native those are off the AMD chipset awesome
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love to see that here's our front panel headers so that's for your power switch
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your LEDs your all that good stuff we have a USB 3 internal header that's also
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oh that's terrific to this board has six usb3 ports on a microatx port
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outstanding we've got four USB 2 headers cuz all that support is still built into
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the chipset so I guess assus figured well we'll just throw the headers on
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there they can plug in as much USB as they please okay we've got our front
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panel audio and in terms of the slot L look at that another four pin pwm fan
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this is actually a pretty high-end motherboard especially considering the
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Factor as well as a three pin fan connector so we got four PW or 3 pwm and
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one three pin fan controller all right let's have a look at what we got in
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terms of slots so we've got a PCIe 16x slot PCIe 1X slot a PCI slot and then a
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PCIe physical 16x slot but you can actually see in here the wires it's only
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wired for 8X so if you were to run Crossfire X which means two discret
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Graphics then you would be running it at adex
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adex okay let's see what AMD says about AMD ASUS says about this board you got
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dual Graphics direct X11 support what's dual Graphics well dual Graphics means
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take your Apu you put it there you take your GPU you put it there and they will
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actually work together kind of like a hybrid Crossfire used to do except it
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actually seems to work quite well this time around so that's a pretty cool
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feature uh other than that I guess they're not really saying too much about
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it oh yeah this is cool check this out so this bracket here looks kind of
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different from what we've seen before for on AMD motherboards but guess what
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still compatible with your old AMD compatible heat sink so you've got the
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same mounting holes you've got the same Clips right here so you shouldn't run
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into any problems as far as using your older Solutions so you don't have to
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waste money upgrading stuff that still works just fine we've got four USB three
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ports on the back one of those PS2 mouse keyboard combo ports optical audio out
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HDMI VGA and DVI of note is the fact
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that the DVI port supports up to 25 60 x600 dual link very cool haven't seen
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that on onboard Graphics yet uh two USB 2 ports an Ethernet port gigabit
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Ethernet of course and 7.1 audio out thank you for checking out my unboxing
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