MSI reveals its A75 Series AMD motherboard

TAIWANESE PC MAKER MSI has announced its military grade A75 motherboard that is capable of dual graphics and easier overclocking.

The A75MA-G55 is the Micro Star International (MSI) outfit's latest motherboard and it is based around the AMD Hudson D3 chipset. The MicroATX board uses Military Class II components and will support AMD A8, A6, A4 and E2 processors in an FM1 socket.

MSI said, "AMD's new APU combines dual and quad-core CPUs with the fastest integrated graphics on the market. The most stable Military Class II Components available have been used to make MSI's A75-Series mainboards."

The A75 board is the "world's easiest 1 second overclock", according to MSI. This is achieved by using OC Genie II which, with a push of a button, overclocks both the processor and memory and apparently "unlocks hidden CPU cores".

Support for AMD Hybrid Crossfire allows for scalability with multiple AMD Radeon graphics cards by using dual graphics.

Expansion-wise the A75 has two PCI-Ex16 slots, one PCI-E slot and one PCI slot. Four memory DIMMs support up to 32GB of DDD3 RAM. There are also six SATA 6Gbits/s ports with RAID support.

Rounding off the design is eight channel audio, a 10/100/1000 Mbits/s LAN, four USB 3.0 ports and eight USB 2.0 ports, plus HDMI, DVI and D-Sub outputs. The BIOS system is user friendly with the ability to make changes using either a mouse or just a keyboard. µ