{"id":54871,"date":"2013-06-14T13:26:09","date_gmt":"2013-06-14T11:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=54871"},"modified":"2013-06-14T13:35:58","modified_gmt":"2013-06-14T11:35:58","slug":"ecs-shows-off-first-socket-fm2-motherboard-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/54871-ecs-shows-off-first-socket-fm2-motherboard-and-more","title":{"rendered":"ECS shows off first socket FM2+ motherboard and more"},"content":{"rendered":"

ECS was at Computex 2013 in Taipei and announced a couple of mid-range products for Intel’s Haswell processor family and AMD’s Kabini processor family.<\/p>\n

As a brand that plays more to the value-over-performance market, ECS hasn’t made super high-end products in the past. This year they’re looking to make a statement and they started it off with the world’s first socket FM2+ motherboard.<\/p>\n

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ECS A78F2-TI<\/p><\/div>\n

Its called the A78F2-TI and it’s the first for many things on the AMD platform. Its the first AMD socket F2+ board to support the upcoming Kaveri family of processors as well as the current Trinity and Richland APU families. Its also the first thin-ITX motherboard for the AMD platform.<\/p>\n

Thin-ITX is a standard created by Intel that allows motherboard manufacturers to make boards to fit into all-in-one barebones PCs, allowing enthusiasts to build up their own all-in-one unit to their liking and at a fraction of the cost of an Apple iMac.<\/p>\n

The board also employs DDR3-SODIMM slots also found on laptops, has mini PCI-E slots for a half-height wireless card and mSATA SSD, has dual HDMI and a single Displayport output and 2:1 channel audio, perfect for those tinny speakers that manufacturers bundle on all-in-one computers.<\/p>\n\n\t\t