Biostar Unveiled Two AMD Llano Micro-ATX Motherboard


In addition to marketing the motherboard has a stylish TA75A + Full ATX, Biostar also reportedly been re-introduced two new solutions to the model TA75M FM1 + and TA75M equally use a micro ATX form factor. And for those who are interested in building a HTPC system or gaming systems based on the latest Llano APUs, reportedly can use both solutions offer the FM1 is Biostar.


Although the two motherboards are equally equipped with a series of features built around the Fusion Controller Hub (FCH) AMD A75, but the layout and design of both of them appear to look a little different. Both of these motherboards were already equipped with four DDR3 DIMM sockets, an ordinary 32-bit PCI, a PCI-E x1 slot and a pair of PCI Express x16 slot.
Amazingly, they also have been compatible with AMD's dual-GPU CrossFireX setup. And a drop to x8 mode, of course, it is associated with the presence of PCI Express controllers in the Llano APUs that reportedly only has 16 lanes of bandwidth only.


In support of storage media that will be applied, either the motherboard or TA75M + TA75M seem alike have been armed with six SATA ports, although the placement itself is a bit different and special on the motherboard TA75M appear to look more circuit wiring.


Some other features are included to support the solution FM1 includes four USB 3.0 ports that are controlled by the A75 FCH (two on the back panel I / O and the other two via pin header on-board existing), 7.1-channel audio on TA75M +, connectors USB 2.0 and VGA video outputs, DVI and HDMI.



In both of these micro-ATX motherboard, users will also recognize a series of other key features such as on-board Power and Reset button and debug BIOS screen.


Although so far Biostar has not mentioned a release date and price for the motherboard and TA75M newest TA75M +, but both models reportedly will be marketed starting in July 2011 just after AMD released the latest official desktop Llano APUs.