Sapphire Pure Platinum A75

This motherboard does support AMD Dual Graphics technology, which is like CrossFire between the internal APU Radeon graphics and a discrete AMD Radeon graphics card connected via PCI Express x16. However, under Linux, AMD Dual Graphics on the proprietary Catalyst driver is not to any real advantage with the lack of demanding OpenGL workloads.

Next to the AMD Socket FM1 for A-Series and E-Series Fusion APUs is a large heatsink covering some of the power circuitry for the motherboard. Behind the heatsink is the 8-pin power connector.

Rear panel I/O ports include four USB 2.0, two USB 3.0, one HDMI, one DisplayPort 1.1a, six audio I/O, one Bluetooth 2.1, eSATA, one single-link DVI, one Gigabit Ethernet, and one PS2 keyboard/mouse combination port. Some of the ASICs on the Sapphire Pure Platinum A75 include the Atheros AR3011 providing the Bluetooth support, Marvell 88E8059 for Gigabit networking, and Realtek ALC892 HD Audio.