A Gallery of AMD FM2 Socket Based Motherboards Seen at Computex 2012
Gigabyte's Triple Offerings for Trinity APUs
This section of the article is an excerpt from a news article that we filed earlier last week.
Gigabyte's Triple Offerings for Trinity APUs
The three FM2 motherboards for AMD’s Trinity APUs on show at Gigabyte's exhibition area were the GA-F2A85X-UP4, GA-F2A55-DS3 and GA-F2A55M-DS2.
The GA-F2A85X-UP4 is based on AMD’s A85X chipset for the upcoming Trinity APUs and since this is slated to be one of the higher-end FM2 motherboards, it features the use of Gigabyte’s Ultra Durable 5 technology (we discussed this at length in an earlier article) as denoted by the "UP" in its model name. It also supports 2-way CrossFireX.
The GA-F2A55-DS3 and GA-F2A55M-DS2 are using the A55 chipset and is positioned a rung below the above mentioned GA-F2A85X-UP4, hence it does not come with the latest Ultra Durable 5 technology and goes with the previous iteration of Ultra Durable 4. In addition, the GA-F2A55M-D2 is of the smaller microATX form factor. The two boards are really targeted at entry-level, mainstream users, who have general computing needs such as word processing and web browsing, but would also like to indulge in some light gaming occasionally.