Gigabyte A75M-D2H FM1 AMD APU Motherboard Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips
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·Linus Tech Tips
·2012-05-07
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today I will be unboxing the super 4 with threeyear warranty and Ultra
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durable 2
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and dxi dxi 1 No actually that's direct
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X11 so here we go what's super four about it super safe okay super speed
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okay super savings okay and Super Sound
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we have this is an fm1 socket motherboard with the a75 chipset which
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does support AMD's Apu products okay
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we've got their 333 onboard acceleration which means USB 3.0 SATA 3 6 GB per
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second as well as USB power 3 which means if you plug into a hub you have
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three times the available power of a standard USB port uses all 50,000 hour
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Japanese solid caps and let's go ahead and see what it has to say for itself on
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the back 108 DB sound to noise ratio
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very very cool stuff lower RDS mosfets
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um one fuse per USB port oh cool so no
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matter what happens you will guard against system malfunction ensure system
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longevity because you won't cause like shorts and stuff cool okay let's open
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her up inside we will find a user's manual with a DVD that you should throw
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away and download the latest from the Gigabyte website we will find an IO
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Shield that you should throw away and download the latest from the Gigabyte no I'm just kidding you'll have you'll need
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that we've got two SATA ports or SATA ports SATA cables one is a right angle
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one is a straight cable they're blue next we have a multilingual installation
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guide book and two more SATA cables they're blue one more straight one more
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right angle finally we have the motherboard itself which is also
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blue and matches the blue cables look at
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Gigabyte putting so much thought into like color scheme these days I'm proud
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of them all right so let's have a look at
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the layout of this fm1 board now this looks like an am2 or an am3 board but
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it's not fm1 means that you have full support for an APU that is Onboard video
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that is right on the chip itself the
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well CPU the Apu the thing that goes here the main guy okay so that means
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that you have support for up to 2560 x600 resolution output by DVI you have
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support for VGA as well as HDMI all
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running in direct X11 off the CPU and it is powerful enough to even run games
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like Dirt 3 very cool you've got your four pin power connector up here in the
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top left in its ideal location you've got whatever cameraman is looking at oh
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direct X11 very good okay we've got the CPU socket in its similarly ideal
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location remember fm1 even though the bracket looks a little different does
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support the same coolers as am2 and am3 CPU fan header is here we have dual
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Channel memory support right about over here and our 24 pin power connectors in
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its ideal location along the right hand edge of the board this is a new one your
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front panel connectors are over here on the right hand edge of the board I
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haven't seen that before but it makes as much sense as any other place to put
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them moving down we have 1 2 3 4 5 six
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SATA 36 GB per second ports those are running off the AMD chipset so that is
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not a thirdparty chipset and next we have front USB 3 look at that on a value
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board front USB 3 with a header very very nice there's a front USB 2 port and
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with that red background in the back you know that's the one that's suitable for
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charging um higher powered devices okay
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and front audio we have look at this we've got uh dual PCI Express 16x
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physical slots but only this one is actually suitable for 16x mode this guy
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right here is actually a 4X electrical slot you can tell from the pins that are
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inside the slot we have a PCI e1x slot and a PCI slot for your legacy expansion
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because if you're running a board like this it's quite likely you'll have
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Legacy expansion cards like maybe a town card or a land card or whatever the case
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may be on the back of the board we find a PS2 mouse keyboard combo Port two USB
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ports a uh wow I'm at a lot
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uh optical audio out USB 3.0 ports times
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2 another couple USB 2 ports so that's a total of four USB 2 ports and two usb3
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ports gigabit Ethernet and 5.1 audio out
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