3/08/2012 07:47:00 PM
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ASRock gives us a break from all the Intel Z77 powered motherboard present at this year’s CeBIT 2012 fair with the introduction of the A75 Pro4/MVP, the first AMD Llano board out there to support the Lucid Virtu Universal MVP technology.
The LucidLogix technology embedded in ASRock’s motherboard was specially designed to allow for on-die GPUs to be used together with discrete graphics cards.
Unlike AMD’s Hybrid graphics implementation found in the A-Series chipsets, the Lucid Virtu Universal MVP technology has the benefit of being vendor agnostic.
This means that it allows users to install discrete graphics cards built by either Nvidia or AMD and use them together with their on-board Radeon GPU in order to improve the overall performance of the system.
According to ASRock’s internal tests, when pairing the Radeon HD 6550D GPU found in the A8-3870 APU with a discrete Nvidia GTX 560 graphics card, this technology provides a 41.12% performance boost in 3DMark 11 (Extreme mode) benchmark.
Besides the inclusion of the Lucid Virtu Universal MVP technology and the new all-black paint scheme, the A75 Pro4/MVP seems to resemble the company’s previous A75 Pro4 motherboard to a great extent.
For those of you in need of a quick reminder, ASRock’s FM1 solution features dual PCI Express x16 slots (the second one is x4 electronically), five SATA 6Gbps ports and 7.1-channel audio with THX TruStudio certification.
The sixth SATA port available in the AMD A75 FCH is routed to the back of the board as an eSATA connector where is joined by four USB 3.0 ports, as well as by various video outputs including DVI-D and HDMI.
ASRock hasn’t provided any details regarding the availability of the A75 Pro4/MVP, but we expect the motherboard to arrive in the coming weeks. Pricing hasn't been disclosed either.
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