Product Info
GIGABYTE Technology latest S series motherboards for AMD socket AM2 platform, featuring with two innovative features- Safe and Smart Technologies. The new S series motherboards GA-M61P-S3; 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. GIGABYTE S series motherboards, the champion's choice for AMD Socket AM2 platform!
Features
- AMD Athlon™64 X2 / Athlon™64 Socket AM2 platform
- Supports high performance Dual-Channel DDR2 800 memory
- Integrated NVIDIA® CineFX 3.0 Graphics Engine
- Features NVIDIA® SATA 3Gb/s with RAID function
- Optimized Gigabit LAN and IEEE1394 connection
- Enhances security with NVIDIA® TCP/IP Acceleration technology
- Features 8 channel High Definition Audio
- RoHS compliant motherboard for green computing
- Supports Windows Vista Premium
Specifications
CPU:
- Socket AM2 for AMD AthlonTM 64 FX / AthlonTM 64 X2 Dual-Core / AthlonTM 64 / SempronTM processor
- Front Side Bus: 2000 MHz
Chipset:
nVIDIA® GeForce 6100 / nForce 430 chipset
Memory:
- 4 DDRII DIMM memory slots (supports up to 16 GB memory)(Note 1)
- Supports dual channel DDRII 800/667/533/400 DIMMs
- Supports 1.8V DDRII DIMMs
Storage
nVIDIA® GeForce 6100/nForce 430 chipset
- 1 FDD connector, allowing connection of 1 FDD device
- 1 IDE connector with UDMA 33/ATA 66/ATA 100/ATA 133 support, allowing connection of 2 IDE devices
- 4 SATA 3Gb/s connectors, allowing connection of 4 SATA 3Gb/s devices
- Supports data RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 0+1 and RAID 5 for Serial ATA
Audio:
- Onboard Realtek ALC883 CODEC chip
- Supports High Definition Audio
- Supports 2 / 4 / 6 / 8 channel audio
- Supports S/PDIF In/Out connection
- Supports CD In connection
LAN:
Realtek RTL8211 (10/100/1000 Mbit)
IEEE 1394:
- Onboard T.I. TSB43AB23 chip
- 3 IEEE 1394a ports (1 rear)
Onboard Peripherals
- 1 PS/2 keyboard port
- 1 PS/2 mouse port
- 1 parallel port
- 1 COMA port
- 1 VGA port
- 10 USB 2.0/1.1 ports (4 rear)
- 3 IEEE 1394a port (1 rear)
- 1 RJ-45 port
- 6 audio jacks (Line In / Line Out / MIC In/Surround Speaker Out (Rear Speaker Out)/Center/Subwoofer Speaker Out/Side Speaker Out)
Expanstion Slots:
- 1 PCI Express x16 slot
- 2 PCI Express x1 slots
- 4 PCI slots
Form Factor:
- Micro ATX form factor
- 30.5cm x 21.5cm