AMD Lynx Platform (Llano A6-3650 CPU, ECS A75F-A Motherboard) Review

Others/Miscelleneous by stefan @ 2011-09-06

The AMD Lynx Platform comes at a decent price and offers DX11 compatible integrated graphics, which is more than enough for performing some of the daily tasks or watching HD multimedia content. For increasing the 3D performance even further, we can either overclock the APU or buy a separate graphics card from the supported models (RADEON HD 6400, 6500 or 6600 Series).

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A Closer Look Part III

The A75 FCH is covered with a small aluminum heatsink, which gets pretty hot during operation:

 

 

 

The backplane of the motherboard has the following I/O ports:

 

-PS/2 mouse and keyboard combo connector

-HDMI port

-DVI port

-VGA port

-Clear CMOS button

-2x USB 2.0 ports

-2x USB 3.0 ports

-LAN port

-eSATA port

-Optical SPDIF output

-Audio ports

 

 

 

The A6-3650 CPU was shipped inside a small plastic green enclosure:

 

 

 

After opening it, we can discover the CPU inside and can find on the HSF information like serial number, batch number:

 

 

 

 

The CPU can be installed really easy inside the socket, by operating the lever:

 

 

 

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