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Gigabyte GA-M59SLI-S5 motherboard Socket AM2 ATX (GA-M59SLI-S5)

Gigabyte GA-M59SLI-S5 motherboard Socket AM2 ATX

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  • - AMD Socket AM2
  • - ATX Realtek ALC888DD
  • - 4 ECC Maximum internal memory: 16 GB
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Introduction
GIGABYTE Technology latest S-series motherboards for AMD socket AM2 platform, featuring with five innovative features- Safe, Smart, Speed, SLI, and Silent-Pipe Technologies. The new S-series motherboards GA-M59SLI-S5; supporting AMD new generation AM2 processor with dual channel DDR2 800MHz high frequency memories, providing reliable and user friendly computing and reaching the maximum system performance easily via personalized software settings. In addition, the leading Silent-Pipe Technology provides an ultimate cooling yet silent solution for motherboard and the outstanding graphics performance through NVidia SLI™ dual PCI Express x16 architecture provide the S-series motherboards excellent scalability for extreme gaming and 3D graphics. GIGABYTE S-series motherboards, the champion’s choice for AMD Socket AM2 platform!

Silent-Pipe
The revolutionary GIGABYTE Silent-Pipe Technology compliant S-series motherboards featuring 0dB soundless heat-pipe thermal cooling solution, convergence with GIGABYTE Crazy Cool Technology, enhances heat dissipation efficiency from the critical Chipsets and CPU power components!

SLI
The SLI compliant motherboards of GIGABYTE S-series support NVidia SLI™ multi-GPU function, not only to provide extreme graphics performance, but also provide efficient expandability and multi-display function. A must-have feature for enthusiasts in gaming platform!

Speed
The Speed compliant motherboards of GIGABYTE S-series provide intelligent over-clocking and over-voltage software settings through the well known EasyTune™ 5, R.G.B. and & M.I.T. utilities!

Smart
The Smart featured motherboards of GIGABYTE S-series provide GIGABYTE proprietary innovative software such as Download Center, @BIOS, Q-Flash, Xpress Install, Boot menu, and Smart Fan. BIOS and driver management now becomes much easier and user friendly through GIGABYTE Smart features!

Safe
Safe is the key feature of GIGABYTE S-series motherboards with the following elements: Excellent hardware design, reinforced BIOS protection through GIGABYTE Virtual Dual BIOS Technology and GIGABYTE BIOS Setting Recovery Technology. Unique system software such as Xpress Recovery 2, PC Health Monitor, HDD S.M.A.R.T., and C.O.M. further strengthen the stability and reliability of your PC!

Windows Vista Premium Logo Certified
Windows Vista Premium promises to deliver a streamlined computing experience designed to fundamentally change how users view, find and organize their digital information. With GIGABYTE new S series socket AM2 solutions all enabling support for Vista Premium, GIGABYTE offers a fresh and unique desktop experience that will be more informative, intuitive and completely new.

Essential Vista
NVIDIA nForce® motherboards and GeForce® GPUs, world renowned for innovation, stability, and award-winning performance, are the choice of reviewers and consumers worldwide. Together, they are essential ingredients for the best Windows Vista experience.

AMD Live Ready
AMD Live Ready Requirement

AMD Athlon™ 64 FX/ 64 X2 / 64 /Sempron™ Processor
The leading-edge performance and unparallel technology of AMD Athlon™64 socket AM2 series processor has built its strength on the well-known AMD64 framework which consisted of 64-bit computing platform, HyperTransport Technology, and integrated memory controller. The latest Athlon™64 socket AM2 processor brings the power and multitasking performance on the desktop platform and ensures superior performance on mission critical business applications.

NVIDIA nForce 590 SLI
NVIDIA nForce® 590 SLI™ media and communications processors (MCPs) deliver the tools and performance PC enthusiasts demand. When combined with select NVIDIA GeForce graphics cards and other system components, you get automatic access to faster bus speeds. Ready for system overclocking and greater data throughput.

NVIDIA LinkBoost™ Technology
NVIDIA nForce 590 SLI MCP automatically increases bandwidth when "Optimized for NVIDIA nForce" NVIDIA® GeForce® graphics cards are detected.

NVIDIA® SLI™ X16
NVIDIA® SLI™ X16 supports two full-bandwidth 16-lane PCI Express links which offers twice the PCI Express bandwidth of X8 SLI solutions, and ensures the maximum graphics and gaming performance for next generation GPUs and games. NVIDIA® SLI™ X16 provides the ultimate gaming experience in future-proofing.

Superior Dual channel DDR2 800 Architecture
AMD Athlon64 FX/ 64 X2 achieves the milestone for desktop computing with the CPU-integrated memory controller. This platform supports dual channel DDR2 800 memory architecture with high bandwidth of up to 12.8 GB/s and shorter memory accessing latency thus delivering the greatest memory performance.

SATA 3Gb/s & RAID
This platform supports reliable storage solution for enhanced data protection and data accessing performance. Serial ATA 3Gb/s provide blazingly 3Gb/s bus bandwidth thus higher disk performance. The NVIDIA RAID allows multi-disk designs to be set up as RAID 0, 1, 0+1, 5,JBOD based on users' priority of protection/ performance. This NVIDIA RAID function makes the RAID even more accessible by introducing the innovative windows-based facility.

IEEE1394 motherboard
This motherboard with IEEE1394 FireWire interface from Texas Instruments (TI). With the transfer speed up to 400Mb/s, the new generation IEEE1394 interface further enhances PC connectivity with consumer electronics audio/video (A/V) appliances, and storage peripherals.

High Definition Audio
Experience home theater-quality sound with your PC using High Definition Audio for enhanced multi-channel audio, improved voice and communication

Dual Gigabit LAN connectivity
Dual Gigabit LAN connectivity Dual Gigabit LAN provides simultaneous WAN and LAN connection at a blazing fast network connection speed of up to 1,000 Mbps for both network types.

Dual Gigabit Ethernet with Teaming
Teaming allows the two connections to work together to provide up to twice the Ethernetbandwidth for transferring large amounts of data from home file servers to other PCs. It also provides network redundancy through fail-over capability.
TCP/IP Acceleration
Delivers the highest system performance by offloading CPU-intensive packet filtering tasks in hardware, providing users with a PC networking environment that is faster.

Home theater Audio with Dolby and DTS support
Dolby and DTS support delivers heart pounding 8 channel surround effects and delivers the most natural and engrossing multimedia entertainment experience possible for games, DVD movies, music, and TV.

Short summary description Gigabyte GA-M59SLI-S5 motherboard Socket AM2 ATX:
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Gigabyte GA-M59SLI-S5, AMD, Socket AM2, 16 GB, Marvell 88E1116, Gigabit Ethernet, ATX

Long summary description Gigabyte GA-M59SLI-S5 motherboard Socket AM2 ATX:
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Gigabyte GA-M59SLI-S5. Processor manufacturer: AMD, Processor socket: Socket AM2. Maximum internal memory: 16 GB. LAN controller: Marvell 88E1116, Networking features: Gigabit Ethernet. Motherboard form factor: ATX, Audio chip: Realtek ALC888DD, Power source type: ATX. Width: 305 mm, Depth: 244 mm

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Processor
Processor manufacturer *
AMD
Processor socket *
Socket AM2
Memory
Number of memory slots *
4
ECC
Yes
Maximum internal memory *
16 GB
Internal I/O
USB 2.0 connectors *
4
Number of SATA connectors
8
S/PDIF out connector
Yes
Front panel audio connector
Yes
CD/AUX audio in
Yes
ATX Power connector (24-pin)
Yes
Power fan connector
Yes
CPU fan connector
Yes
Chassis intrusion connector
Yes
Number of IEEE1394 connectors
2
Rear panel I/O ports
USB 2.0 ports quantity *
4
Ethernet LAN (RJ-45) ports *
2
Rear panel I/O ports
PS/2 ports quantity
2
Firewire (IEEE 1394) ports
1
Headphone outputs
1
Microphone in
Yes
S/PDIF out port
Yes
Parallel ports quantity
1
COM ports quantity
1
Network
LAN controller
Marvell 88E1116
Networking features
Gigabit Ethernet
Features
Audio chip
Realtek ALC888DD
Motherboard form factor *
ATX
Power source type
ATX
Expansion slots
Expansion slots
2xPCI Express x 16 1xPCI Express x 8 2xPCI Express x 1 2xPCI
Weight & dimensions
Width
305 mm
Depth
244 mm
Other features
Floppy disk drive connector
Yes
Source Testseek summary Average rating
Reviews
Updated:
2011-09-26 13:00:10
Uk has collected 14 expert reviews for Gigabyte GA-M59SLI-S5 motherboard Socket AM2 ATX and the average expert rating is 86 of 100. The average score reflects the expert community’s view on this product. Click below and use Uk to see all ratings, product awards and conclusions.
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86%
Source Review comments Score
techradar.com
Updated:
2011-09-26 12:59:12
Gigabyte isnt shy of alliterative marketing spin and this S Series motherboard serves up a succession of ss to sell its stuff: Silent-Pipe, SLI, Speed, Smart and Safe all find prominence on the box. Sound would have been an obvious one to add becau...
Good Good memory bandwidth, Easy driver installation, Good range of features, Well priced, DDR2 Memory...
Bottom line Gigabyte isnt shy of alliterative marketing spin and this S Series motherboard serves up a succession of ss to sell its stuff: Silent-Pipe, SLI, Speed, Smart and Safe all find prominence on the box. Sound would have been an obvious one to add becau...
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90%
itreviews.com
Updated:
2011-09-26 12:59:46
AM2 motherboard using nForce 5 chipset: Although overshadowed by the same-day launch of AMDs latest Socket generation, the AM2, Nvidias latest chipset, the nForce 5, is the companys most powerful to date. Both of them come together on Gigabytes new GA-M59...
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atomicmpc.com.au
Updated:
2011-11-04 15:09:10
You’d think the AM2 launch would be all about AMD – you’d think this, but you’d be wrong. It’s all about NVIDIA, and it’s making sure the world knows about it with the company’s new ‘SLI certified’ pro...
Bottom line Paving the way for AMDs transition to DDR2, AM2 is not a revolution but is the next step upwards...
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80%
maximumpc.com
Updated:
2011-09-26 12:59:00
In a world of “me-too” motherboards, Gigabyte is known for its “not-me” risky moves. The company was the first to integrate two GeForce 6800 GPUs onto a single card, and it was the first to make dual BIOSes standard. While the GA-M59SLI-S5 isn’t as out...
90%
hothardware.com
Updated:
2011-09-26 12:59:08
With the release of NVIDIAs nForce 500 Series, NVIDIA opened the door to a broad range of features tailored to both AMD and Intel based architectures. Today, we have a line up of three motherboards outfitted with the nForce 590 SLI chipset for AMD, offeri...
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90%
MotherBoards.org
Updated:
2011-09-26 12:59:17
NVIDIA is currently the number one provider of AMD chipset motherboards for the high-end market. Founded in 1993 by Jen-Hsun Huang, Chris Malachowsky, NVIDIA has over 2 Billion USD in annual revenue and over a Billion USD in the bank. Things weren't al...
Bottom line GIGABYTE has done a wonderful job with the GA-M59SLI-S5 motherboard. S5 stands for Silent Pipe, SLI, Speed, Smart and Safe. The board offers these features in spades. The addition of the Multiple SATA port adapter means that you can have up to 30+ SATA...
90%
pcstats.com
Updated:
2011-09-26 12:59:23
Looking at the feature set of nVIDIAs high end nForce 590 SLI chipset is like reading the menu on what a high end workstation system ought to have... except for the uninspiring single IDE channel.
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85%
hardwaresecrets.com
Updated:
2011-09-26 12:59:28
Our review of Gigabyte GA-M59SLI-S5, a very high-end socket AM2 motherboard based on nForce MCP 590 featuring a copper passive heatsink solution with heat-pipes, competing directly with ASUS M2N32-SLI De Luxe. Check it out!...
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0%
techspot.com
Updated:
2011-09-26 12:59:35
Those looking at upgrading to the new AMD AM2 platform will no doubt select a motherboard sporting a chipset from the latest NVIDIA nForce 500 series. There are plenty of AM2 motherboards to choose from already, and almost all of them are driven by a N...
Bottom line Unfortunately, when it came time to overclock the M59SLI-S5 things did not go as planned. While the ASUS M2N32-SLI Deluxe managed a 340MHz FSB, getting the Gigabyte board stable at even 300MHz just seemed like going too far. Using the latest “F3” BIOS...
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0%
digital-daily.com
Updated:
2011-09-26 12:59:40
Last week, we reviewed a Foxconns motherboard built on the nForce 590 SLI chipset that is aimed at high-end systems with the latest AMD Socket AM2 processors. Today, we are testing a motherboard on the same chipset, made by Gigabyte. This is model M59...
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v3.co.uk
Updated:
2011-09-26 12:59:55
An impressive, high-end AM2 motherboard, with decent overclocking capabilities...
80%
firingsquad.com
Updated:
2011-09-26 13:00:02
It has been over a month since the June 23rd launch date for the AMD AM2 Socket and the NVIDIA nForce500 core logic. AM2 was the first part of AMD’s transition to a new generation of Athlon 64 CPU’s. The most significant change in AM2 is AMD&r...
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neoseeker.com
Updated:
2011-09-26 13:00:09
Though NVIDIA released its nForce 590 MCP just three weeks ago, early samples of Gigabytes M59SLI-S5 managed their way around to a few sites for early previews at the begining of May. While the release of new nForce products on May 23rd was not as mo...
Bottom line Clearly seen in the performance charts over the past few pages is a trend that is only going to rise. As more motherboards adopt nearly identical designs and feature sets, there is little to no perceptible difference in performance outside the margin...
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