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 |
Please note: once a motherboard has been updated to BIOS version 2.**, the change cannot be reversed to any V1.
