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Gigabyte A75M-D2H FM1 AMD APU Motherboard Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips

2011-08-27
today I will be unboxing the super 4 with 3 year warranty and ultra durable 2 and DX DX I won no actually that's DirectX 11 so here we go what's super 4 about it super safe ok super speed ok super savings ok and super sound we have this is an fm1 socket motherboard with the a75 chipset which does support AMD's apu products okay we've got there three three three onboard acceleration which means USB 3.0 SATA 3 6 gigabit per second as well as USB power 3 which means if you plug into a hub you have three times the available power the standard USB port uses all 50000 our japanese solid caps and let's go ahead and see what it has to say for herself on the back 108 decibels sound to noise ratio very very cool stuff lower RDS MOSFETs one fuse per USB for it oh cool so no matter what happens you will guard against system malfunction or sure system longevity because you won't cause like shorts and stuff cool ok let's not find a user's manual with the DVD that you should throw away and download the latest from the gigabyte website we will find an i/o shield that you can throw away and download the latest from the gigabyte what no I'm just kidding y'all ha you'll need that we've got 2 SATA ports apart SATA ports SATA cables one is the right angle one is a straight cable they're blue next we have a multilingual installation guidebook and two more SATA cables there blue one more straight one more right angle finally we have the motherboard itself which is also blue and matches the blue cables ok goodbye putting so much thought into like color scheme these days I'm proud of them alright so let's have a look at the layout of this FM one board now this looks like an AM tour at a three-word but it's not FM one means that you have full support for an APU that is onboard video that is right on the chip itself the CPU the APU the thing that goes here the main guy ok so that means that you have support for up to 2560 by 1600 resolution output by DDI you have support for VGA as well as HDMI all running in DirectX 11 off the CPU and it is powerful enough to even run games like dirt 3 very cool you've got your 4 pin power connector up here in the top left and it's ideal location you've got whatever camera man is looking at how DirectX 11 traded okay we've got the CPU socket in its similarly ideal location remember at them 1 even though the bracket looks a little different does support the same coolers as a m2 and aims three CPU fan header is here we have dual channel memory support right about over here and our 24-pin power connectors in its ideal location along the right hand edge of the board this is a new one your front panel connectors are over here on the right-hand edge of the board I haven't seen that before but it makes as much sense as any other place to put them moving down we have 1 2 3 4 5 6 this a 2 3 6 gave it per second ports those are running off the AMD chipset so that is not a third-party chipset and next we have front USB 3 look at that on a value board front USB 3 with a header very very nice there's a front USB 2 port and with that red background in the back you know that's the one that's suitable for charging higher powered devices ok and front audio we have look at this we've got dual PCI Express 16x physical slots but only this one is actually suitable for 16x mode this guy right here is actually a 4x electrical slot you can tell from the pins that are inside the slot we have a PCI you want ex lot and a PCI slot for your legacy expansion because if you're running a board like this it's quite likely you'll have legacy expansion cards like maybe a sound card or a LAN card whatever the case may be on the back of the board we find a ps2 mouse keyboard combo port two USB ports a wow I'm at a loss optical audio out USB 3.0 ports times 2 have come another couple of USB 2 ports so that's a total of 4 USB to ports and 2 USB 3 ports Gigabit Ethernet and 5.1 audio out thank you for their hangout my unboxing at the a 75m d2h and don't forget to subscribe to Linus tech tips from our unboxings reviews and other computer videos
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