ASUS has revealed their plans to launch the world’s first socket FM2+ motherboards for AMD’s Trinity, Richland, and upcoming Kaveri processors.<\/p>\n
The company has planned the launch of the A88XM-A and the A55BM-A\/USB3, two mATX motherboards that should take the fight straight to motherboards sporting Intel’s H81 and H87 chipsets.<\/p>\n
ASUS South Africa has confirmed to MyGaming that there isn’t yet a big enough need for importing these motherboards into South Africa. As such, they will only be available in the US and Canada, and most of Europe including the United Kingdom.<\/p>\n
The A55BM-A is the cheaper of the two and is a nice compact design. It has two DDR3 slots supporting up to 32GB of DDR3-2133 memory, one PCI-Express 3.0 slot, six SATA 3GB\/s ports, two USB 3.0 ports at the rear along with VGA, DVI-D and HDMI-out. It only has a four-phase VRM bank and won’t overclock too high, but will allow for some tweaking of the processor’s clock speed and memory speeds.<\/p>\n
The slightly more expensive but very similar-looking A88XM-A is a bit wider to allow for space for another two memory slots and six SATA 6GB\/s ports. It also has PCI-Express 3.0 and tacks on two front-panel USB 3.0 ports, an extra VRM phase and AMD’s A88 chipset, which allows for more tweaking and overclocking and additionally opens up support for 64GB of DDR3-2133 RAM.<\/p>\n\n\t\t