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today I'm going to be doing my first socket fm1 motherboard unboxing this is the asou f1 a 75 M Pro it uses the AMD a 75 chipset as I mentioned before fm1 socket this is a brand new socket this is for special chips because I can't even call them CPUs anymore that are called APU so they have a CPU component a graphics component and that is a DirectX 11 ready graphics component so let's dive right into this so we've got eight vision or e2 vision I'm actually not familiar with that what that means but the chip that I'll be trying this with is actually an eight CPU GPU APU it's an APU so that is what I will be having in terms of my experience this a vision level okay we have digi+ vrm that's nice to see on a micro ATX port UEFI BIOS also great to see there TPU and EPU processors for performance and energy savings respectively USB 3 is featured on this chipset and let's have a look at the backs of the digi+ vrm they're showing you that lower interference is better I should certainly think so and giving us a little bit more information about those features so the epu is all about detecting your current PCE loadings and automatically adjusting the energy savings TPU is for turbo they've got their auto system level up auto tuning that's available in the BIOS as well and the UEFI BIOS allows you to use a mouse their view EFI BIOS node is actually outstanding so I would definitely recommend using it if you have this board not that you'll have a choice you will have to use it ok this is a slightly different packaging layout than I've seen on a seuss motherboards before so let's take the board up a little bit here and let's have a look at what they've done with their accessories oK we've got to say 2 3 6 gigabit per second cables yes sata3 six gigabit per second native motherboards so the chipset supports it you don't need any third-party chips and that is six ports so they're both straight to right-angled cables we have a user's guide which includes a driver DVD as well as a powered by a Seuss sticker download the latest drivers off the soos or AMD website next we have an i/o shield which is helpfully labeled in terms of what's what now let's have a look at the board itself okay this is gonna be a good unboxing because it's the first one of a brand new platform I'm always excited about that kind of stuff so why don't we start right here this is the socket fm1 now it looks similar to socket am3 but it's not quite the same first of all I want you guys to notice these blocked off pins right here can you see those okay so those blocked off pins right there right away you know socket fm1 if you can't read so you're not going to even be able to physically fit older m2 or am-3 processors into the socket now I also want to show you guys how to tell which way to orient your CPU there's a little triangle right there you're gonna match that up with a little gold triangle on the bottom of your chip that's the way to put it in you lift up your lever you put the CPU and you lock it down that's how it works it works with a four a six and eight ap use and you will have full support for onboard graphics remember one of their competitors had kind of a silly platform before where it's depending on which CPU you plugged in you did or didn't have access to the onboard graphics it will all work no problem okay we've got our eight pin power and it's ideal location up at the top left corner of the board we have a CPU PWM fan header right there we have support for dual channel ddr3 memory up to four slots just like that we have our EP you and TPU switches right here we've also got a memo case which so what that means is no matter what memory you're running in here you can press the memo K button to boot it up and the memory will run at a safe setting so you can get into the BIOS and make any adjustments to the timings and speed our 24 pin connectors in this ideal location along the right-hand edge we've got another PWM chassis fan controller we've got our chipset here which is excellent to see it's got a little tiny heatsink on it so it's clearly not doing much most of the most of the cool stuff is happening up here in the APU we've got six SATA three six gigabit per second ports those are native those are off the AMD chipset awesome love to see that here's our front panel headers so that's for your power switch your LEDs your all that good stuff we have a USB 3 internal header that also oh that's terrific this board has six USB 3 ports on a micro ATX port outstanding we've got 4 USB 2 headers because all that support is still built into the chipset so I guess this is figured well we'll just throw the Hatters on there they can plug in as much USB as they please ok we've got our front panel audio and in terms of the slot level look at that another 4 pin PWM fan this is actually a pretty high-end motherboard especially considering the form factor as well as a 3 pin fan connector so we got 4 PW our three PWM and one 3 pin fan controller alright let's have a look at what we got in terms of slots so we've got a PCIe 16x slot PCIe 1x slot a PCI slot and then a PCIe physical 16x lot but you can actually see in here the wiris it's only wired for 8x so if you were to run crossfire X which means to discrete graphics then you would be running it at 8 X 8 X okay let's see what AMD says about our AMD as sue says about this board you've got dual graphics DirectX 11 support what's dual graphics well dual graphics means to take your APU you put it there you take your GPU you put it there and they will actually work together kind of like a hybrid crossfire used to do except it actually seems to work quite well this time around so that's a pretty cool feature um I guess I'm not really saying too much about it oh yeah this is cool check this out so this bracket here looks kind of different from what we've seen before an AMD motherboard guess what still compatible with your old AMD compatible heatsink so you've got the same mounting holes you've got the same clips right here so you shouldn't run into any problems as far as using your older solutions so you don't have to waste money upgrading stuff that still works just fine we've got 4 USB 3 ports on the back one of those ps2 mouse keyboard combo ports optical audio out HDMI VGA NDVI of note is the fact that the DVI port supports up to 2560 by 1600 dual link very cool haven't seen that on onboard graphics yet two USB 2 ports an Ethernet port Gigabit Ethernet of course and 7.1 audio out thank you for checking out my unboxing of the FM a 75 M pro from a soos don't forget to subscribe to Linus tech tips for more unboxings reviews and other computer videos