Saturday, March 16, 2013

HTPC segment is filled with new ASUS motherboards for AMD and Intel


Segment HTPC (Home Theatre Personal Computer) - PC for use as a home theater, filled with new motherboards ASUS Series Home Entertainment.
In the motherboard ASUS B75M-A, H61M-PLUS, H61M-A/USB3 and H61M-A four-phase power system is used, based on the 3 +1 scheme, boards are designed for use with Intel processors with LGA 1155. And motherboards A85XM-A, A55M-A/USB3 and A55M-A used pyatifaznaya power system, made ​​by the scheme 3 +2, boards are designed for AMD processors with built-FM2. All new items are the form factor microATX. All of the announced card except the model Z77-A, two slots soldered DDR3. For Intel boards typical memory frequency to 2200 MHz overclocking motherboards for AMD - up to 1866 MHz. Unlike all the novelties of the motherboard ASUS Z77-A completed form factor ATX, it uses pyatifaznaya (4 +1) power supply circuit, the board has four slots for DDR3, which can operate at up to 2400 MHz overclock.
All new products are equipped with advanced technologies, such as:
  • DIGI + VRM - power system controller, which provides load balancing through the channels as required in a particular power supply, thereby increasing the stability and the service fee.
  • EPU (Energy Processing Unit) - processor, designed for energy management and energy efficiency.
  • Fan Xpert - branded utility from ASUS, designed to control the cooling system, fan speed settings.
  • Network iControl - utility that allows you to prioritize bandwidth Ethernet-connections for different applications with user-friendly graphical interface.
  • Anti-Surge - brand development company ASUS, designed to prevent the failure of the motherboard due to power surges.
board ASUS Home Entertainment
According to the manufacturer, the new card is ideal for use in compact desktop and HTPC, thanks to the presence of three video outputs: D-Sub, DVI and HDMI, which will display on all modern devices. The exception was H61-PLUS, which has no video outputs.
HDMI and DVI video outputs
According to the manufacturer, the use of the protocol USB Attached SCSI Protocol (UASP), compared with the usual USB 3.0, achieves superior to 1.7. The function is called «USB 3.0 Boost» and used in all the announced cards. Lucky model Z77-A, B75M-A, H61M-PLUS and H61M-A/USB3 - motherboards for Intel and A85XM-A, A55M-A/USB3 - for AMD.
USB Attached SCSI Protocol faster than the standard USB 3.0 and 1.7 times
All of the ASUS Motherboard Series Home Entertainment are manufactured using high quality solid capacitors, corresponding to Japanese Industrial Standards. According to the manufacturer, the capacitors are able to work 5000 hours at 105 ° C or more than 50 years at an average operating temperature of 65 ° C.
High-quality Japanese solid capacitors

Stainless IO panel
Also marked the use of stainless steel in the manufacture of the rear panel, which is important for computers, operating in an environment with high humidity.
The motherboards B75M-A, H61M-PLUS, H61M-A/USB3, H61M-A and H61-PLUS is used for a single socket PCI Express 3.0 x16, two-slot PCI Express 2.0 x1. Motherboard ASUS Z77-A is equipped with a single-slot PCI Express 3.0 x16 slot and one PCI Express 2.0 x16, as well as single-slot PCI Express 2.0 x1. Outdated PCI slot is used only on Z77-A (two slots), B75M-A (one slot) and H61-PLUS (three connectors).
For connecting drives to motherboards H61M-A/USB3, H61M-A and H61-PLUS has four SATA 3 Gb / s. The motherboard Z77-A uses two SATA 6 Gb / s and four SATA 3 Gb / s. Fee B75M-A is characterized by a single port SATA 6 Gb / s and five ports SATA 3 Gb / s. And H61M-PLUS uses two SATA 6 Gb / s ports and two SATA 3 Gb / s.
Motherboards Z77-A and B75M-A are characterized by the presence of four ports USB 3.0, as well as eight ports USB 2.0. Board H61M-PLUS and H61M-A/USB3 characterized by two ports USB 3.0, as well as eight ports USB 2.0. Board H61M-A and H61-PLUS characterized ten ports USB 2.0.
On motherboards for AMD processors used by a single slot PCI Express 2.0 x16, PCI Express 2.0 x1 and PCI.Fees A55M-A/USB3 and A55M-A characterized six SATA 3 Gb / s. Fee A85XM-A accommodates eight-port SATA 6 Gb / s.
For mass storage, the board A85XM-A uses four ports USB 3.0, as well as the six-port USB 2.0. Fee A55M-A/USB3 characterized by two ports USB 3.0, as well as six ports USB 2.0, and the fee A55M-A characterized eight ports USB 2.0.
Announced on all boards to implement Gigabit Ethernet network chip used RTL8111F.

On the pricing and timing of the sales data yet.
Source: ASUS

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