All of MSIs FM2 Motherboards Will Support Richland APUs
All of MSI's current FM2 motherboards will support the AMD Richland APUs.
MSI has announced that all of its current FM2 motherboards support AMD's third generation APU processors. All that will be needed from users might be a BIOS update and perhaps a couple of new drivers. The OC Genie II features will still work on Richland APUs, just as they should. AMD's most powerful Richland APU, the A10-6800, features a boost clock speed of 4.4 GHz, an HD 8670D GPU, a TDP of 100 W, and is built on a 32 nm lithography process. The motherboards that are included, as well as the BIOS version required, are listed below:
| Model | Chipset | BIOS Ver. |
|---|---|---|
| FM2-A85XA-G65 | AMD A85X | 2.0 above |
| FM2-A85XMA-P33 | AMD A85X | 2.0 above |
| FM2-A85XMA-E35 | AMD A85X | 2.0 above |
| FM2-A85XA-G43 | AMD A85X | Coming Soon |
| FM2-A75MA-P33 | AMD A75 | 2.0 above |
| FM2-A75MA-E35 | AMD A75 | 2.0 above |
| FM2-A55-G43 | AMD A55 | Coming Soon |
| FM2-A55M-P33 | AMD A55 | 2.0 above |
| FM2-A55M-E35 | AMD A55 | 2.0 above |
| FM2-A55M-E33 | AMD A55 | 2.0 above |
| FM2-A75IA-E53 | AMD A55 | 2.0 above |
Do note, though, that once a motherboard has been updated to BIOS version 2.**, the change cannot be reversed to any V1.** version.
Oh, also I heard that A10-6800k will support 2400Mhz memory without any overclock. This applies to every Richland-Upgraded motherboard?
Because, at the moment any MoBo I see shows that 2400Mhz 'native' support...
I'm quite confused with those new Richland APU...
Same here, I mainly play Dota2 at this moment and A10-6800k seems to be the best CPU out there for this task. Also still Quad-Core and will handle nicely Darktables, Gimp, Rawtherapee and those photography software out there.
The downside is that the Kaveri APU will require the purchase of a new motherboard. The socket is different.