Gigabyte GA-M59SLI-S5 Motherboard Review
By Gabriel Torres on August 28, 2006 Page 4 of 10

Main Features

Hardware Secrets Golden AwardGigabyte GA-M59SLI-S5 main features are:

  • Socket: AM2.
  • Chipset: nVidia nForce 590 SLI.
    Super I/O: ITE IT8716F.
  • Parallel IDE: One ATA-133 port controlled by the chipset.
  • Serial IDE: Six SATA-300 ports controlled by the chipset (NCQ, RAID0, RAID1, RAID0+1, RAID5 and JBOD) and two SATA-300 ports controlled by “Gigabyte SATA 2” chip – actually a Jmicron JMB363 (NCQ, RAID 0, 1 and JBOD and Port Multiplier).
  • USB: 10 USB 2.0 ports (four soldered on the motherboard and six available thru I/O brackets that don’t come with the motherboard).
  • Firewire (IEEE 1394a): Three ports controlled by Texas Instruments TSB43AB23A chip, one miniature connector soldered on the motherboard and two available thru an I/O bracket that don’t come with the motherboard.
  • On-board audio: Produced by the chipset together with Realtek ALC888DD codec (eight channels, 97 dB output signal-to-noise ratio and 90 dB input signal-to-noise ratio) with optical SPDIF output soldered on the motherboard.
  • On-board video: No.
  • On-board LAN: Yes, two Gigabit Ethernet controlled by the chipset together with two Marvel 88E1116 chips.
  • Buzzer: No.
  • Power supply: ATX12V v2.x (24-pin).
  • Slots: Three x16 PCI Express slots (one of them working at x8 rate and two SLI x16), two x1 PCI Express slots and two PCI slots.
  • Memory: Four DDR-DIMM sockets (up to 16 GB up to DDR2-800/PC2-6400).
  • Number of CDs that come with this motherboard: 1 CD.
  • Programs that come with this motherboard: Norton Internet Security, drivers and utilities.
  • Extra features: Passive copper heatsinks with heat-pipes, TPM connector and dual BIOS.
  • More Information: http://www.gigabyte.com.tw.
  • Average price in the US*: USD 190.00

* Researched at Shopping.com on the day we published this review.


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