Hardware manufacturer ECS has with the introduction of three motherboards with the FM1 socket for AMD’s A-Series apus to its range of motherboards for the Fusion platform doubled. The three signs have the A55 chipset on board.
ECS has three A55-based motherboards released. Two of them are in the matx format cast, while the third-the full atx format. The largest sign, the A55F-A, is equipped with four memory slots, two pci-express x16 slots and an equal number of x1 slots. Also, three pci slots, five sata-300 ports and twelve usb 2.0 ports available. Faster interfaces such as sata-600 and usb 3.0 ports are absent.
The two matx boards, A55F-M2 and A55F-M3, each have only two memory slots and one pci-express x16 slot. The M2 has next to the pci slot two pci-express x1 slots, while the M3 is also a pci slot, but only one x1 slot. The M2 has six sata-300 ports and twelve usb 2.0 ports, and the M3 has, there are respectively four and eight. Also the M3 only a D-sub connector for video, while the M2 which extends with a hdmi port.
The A55 chipset is the budgetversie for the A-Series apus, or Fusion processors from AMD. The chipset for the Llano processors is easier than the A75 chipset, which ECS all three motherboards uitrustte. The A55 chipset has no sata-600 support on board and ECS provides the boards of usb 3.0 connectivity, such as the A75 boards. Prices made ECS is not yet known, but that would be below the level of the A75 motherboards are.
