The details of the first AMD 690G chipset based motherboard are just revealed at Asustek’s website. The new Asus M2A-VM mainboard for AMD’s socket AM2 processors has an integrated ATI Radeon X1250 graphics, provided by the long avaited 690G Northbridge.
The Micro-ATX Asus M2A-VM has dual VGA outputs including DVI interface. The RGB output supports up to 2048 x 1536 screen resolution at refresh rate of 85Hz, while the DVI-D out supports up to 2560×1600 at 60Hz. The X1250 graphics incorporated in M2A-VM and AMD 690G chipset provides Microsoft DirectX 9.0 and Shader V2.0. You can use up to 256MB of shared system memory for graphics purposes.
The motherboard supports 800/1000MHz HT (HyperTransport) interface speeds an up to 8GB of DDR2 800/667/533 ECC and Non-ECC un-buffered memory using four 240-pin DIMM slots.
Asus M2A-VM has one PCI Express x16 slot, one PCI Express x1, as same as two PCI slots.
Regarding data storage, M2A-VM’s SB600 Soutbridge provides four Serial ATA 3Gb/s ports with RAID 0, RAID 1 and RAID10 and one UltraDMA 133/100.
This AMD Live! ready motherboard also incorporates ALC883 High Definition Audio 6-channel CODEC and Gigabit Ethernet LAN.
Regarding overclocking features, it has SFS (Stepless Frequency Selection) from 200MHz to 400MHz at 1MHz increment, adjustable CPU Voltage at 0.0125V increment and ASUS C.P.R. (CPU Parameter Recall).
Currently there is no information on Asus M2A-VM pricing and availability.
