After ECS, with A75F-A Black Deluxe, ASRock announced A75-Extreme6 FM1, a new motherboard which is based on AMD‘s Hudson-D3 A75 single-chip chipset. ASRock A75-Extreme4 will use the future AMD socket, FM1. The difference between FM1 and AM3 is the number of pins: 905 for FM1 and 940 for AM3. But the retention brackets haven’t essentially changed, so most AM3 coolers should fit on FM1. ASRock A75-Extreme6 will come with four DDR3 DIMM slots for dual-channel DDR3-1866 MHz memory support, three PCI-Express 2.0 x16 slots (first two PCI-E x16 slots switch to electrical x8 when both are populated and the third slot is electrical x4), one PCI Express x1 and three PCI. Also, ASRock A75-Extreme4 will offer eight internal SATA 6 Gb/s ports, two eSATA, six USB 3.0 ports (four at rear-panel, two by header), DVI, HDMI 1.4a, D-Sub, 8 + 2 channel HD audio, gigabit Ethernet and FireWire. So, everything you need, you will have on this motherboard. And, one more thing, ASRock A75-Extreme6 has solid capacitors on entire surface. That’s mean quality, high-performance and stability. Maybe, with this new generation of chipsets and processors, AMD will offer something more than old models and, this time, AMD will be a real competitor for Intel. Because, for the moment, Intel make the rules on the market, even many of us don’t want to accept this situation.
