Siddharth Parwatay

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Posted on 07-07-2011

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Very recently AMD revealed its Llano line of A series Fusion APUs which will directly combat Intel’s Sandy Bridge. This new Socket FM1 A75 chipset makes for a very interesting value proposition considering that the integrated GPU on this processor (AMD likes calling the chip an Accelerated Processing Unit) is from the good ‘ol Redwood lineage. We’re talking HD 5670 + level graphics on an integrated chip. Hence this could very well be the first time we’ll be seeing a decent graphics solution (for gaming, not just encoding/rendering) pushed onto a single chip. Also we’re hearing news of the integrated graphics units being overclocked to mind boggling heights. All of this makes us eagerly await the first few of these APUs to be shipped to India. Meanwhile, boards for the A75 Llano chipset have already started making inroads. Here we do a preview of the first board of its kind to come to our test center - ASUS’s F1 A75-V Pro - and in effect get you acquainted with this chipset and what it has to offer. Lets start with the package and bundle.

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Package and Bundle
As you can see from the package, it follows pretty much the standard information outlay that we’re accustomed to for any of ASUS’s pro series boards. You’ve got logos for specific standards and features such as Vision and UEFI etc.

The back explains some of the features in more detail. The most interesting of these were the TPU and EPU boxes which we will talk about in a bit once we focus on those particular chips and what they do.

Inside the bundle we have a couple of things as expected. The Manual, Driver CD, couple of connectors, two SATA cables and the I/O panel shield. The IO shield in fact was interesting in a way that it had a soft sponge back, which is not something we’ve seen. The sponge allows for nice play when mounting the board in a case.

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