Gigabyte GA-M57SLI-S4 (NV 570 SLI) AM2 Mainboard Reivew Intro 1/6
Bluetooth 23 May 2006

Gigabyte GA-M57SLI-S4

Gigabyte, one of the top tier mainboard manufacturer releases it flagship AM2 product based on the Nvidia nForce 570 SLI chipset. This new mainboard supports the new AM2 socket 940 processor with DDR2-800 support. The mainboard supports 4 DDR2 DIMM slots, 6 SATA II ports NV RAID ports supporting NV 0, 1, 0+1, 5, JBOD. 10 USB ports 10 ports (6 by cable). It also supports 2 x 8 PCIe lanes sfor SLI operation. Other features include 1394 and GbE(Marvell 1116PHY) and 8 ch HD audio (ALC883 8 Ch HD audio). This mainboard uses a silent cooler, so no more noisy fans. The board is also Windows Vista ready and AMD Live! Ready.

This "S" series board has features that are Safe, Smart, Speed and SLI. the 4 S.

The first "S" , SAFE - The board comes with a Virtual Dual BIOS which supports BIOS crash free protection with physical BIOS and Xpress. BIOS Rescue allows BIOS Settings Recovery, Recoverable safe and frequently used CMOS setting. HDD S.M.A.R.T. allows Hard drive “Self Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology” support. The board also supports C.O.M. (Corporate Online Manager), this allows System administration utility for local area network. Xpress Recovery 2 allows Quick system image backup and restore. Lastly PC Health Monitor checks
System health monitor via bios and EasyTune utility.

The second "S" is SMART. The board comes with Download Center which allows Smart driver selection and download from Gigabyte’s website. Xpress Install complete drivers installation on one simple click. Smart LAN
BIOS built-in program to check LAN cable connection status. @BIOS / Q-Flash for Automatic BIOS update via internet / BIOS built-in flash utility. Boot Menu allows Select boot device without entering bios setup
Smart Fan - Make your system cooler and quieter.

The third "S" is SPEED. With Easy Tune 5 & M.I.T. (Motherboard Intelligent Tweaker) it supports overclocking woth wide range of frequency tuning for CPU/ MEMORY/ PCI Express/PCI bus speed, Overvoltage - Flexible voltage setting for CPU/Memory/PCI-E/Chipset to enhance overclocking ability. R.G.B. (Robust Graphics Booster) enhances Graphic performance through simple BIOS setting.

The fourth "S" is SLI . NVIDIA SLI Multi-GPU function delivers best gaming experience and 3D graphics
performance Multiple monitors support Quad SLI (2*7950GX2).

 

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