Socket FM2 is (almost) there

[Dirk Broer]

Prices of the top FM2 boards have suddenly dropped significantly here in the Netherlands, Gigabyte's GA-F2A85X-UP4 now going for prices as low as 77 Euros (was 119 at a time) and Asrock's FM2A85X Extreme6 going for 86 Euros (was 106). Only ASUS still thinks to be able to cash in on the F2A85-V Pro (119 Euro's, was 135 ) and Sapphire has lost its marbles; the Pure Platinum F2A85X still being offered for 124 Euro's.
No doubt the coming of the FM2+ boards is the reason the older FM2 boards are dumped right now. Now for the FM2 APUs....I wouldn't mind buying a Trinity A10 at a lower price than there're offered now (105 Euro's)

[Dirk Broer]

As was to be expected: the prices of FM2 mobo's dropped because of the advent of FM2+ mobo's.
After a host of Kabini iTX mobo's from Asrock, ASUS, ECS, Sapphire and two ASUS FM2+ μATX mobo's, of which one with the new A88 chipset) now also Gigabyte has shown their new FM2+ offerings:
The here now suddenly quite affordable has to go for
with a much more pronounced heatsink solution, while this one is entirely new:

If it features Lucid Virtu™ Universal® MVP GPU virtualization support you can combine a nVidia video card with an AMD one -at least under Windows- and get the best of both worlds. The PCIe slots already have a perfectly matching color for an nVidia card, and here are the matching memory sticks...

These two Gigabyte mobos form the top of the Gigabyte FM2+ offerings, others are:

• F2A88X-D3H
• F2A88X-HD3
• F2A88XM-D3H
• F2A85XM-DS2
• F2A88XM-HD3