Gigabyte GA-M59SLI-S5 Motherboard Reviews

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Pros: Great cooling system and, on paper, excellent feature set. Most reviews are positive and I would buy a new one today if I needed it but...see below. Cons: In desperation, I bought an open box unit in May (see below) and had nothing but grief - unstable w/Athlon 6000+ and 4 GB (2 x 2GB) Patriot eXtreme Performance PDC24G6400ELK; trouble w/both RAID controllers (Nvidia and SiI3132). from Newegg.com Pros: it is a giga-byte how can you go wrong buy this one unfortunently reconized g.skill ram red at 800mhz no tweeking Cons: worked awsome was donating to a school loaded win xp 32 2x1 gigs of red g,skill ram BNQ amd 6000 cpu and a 7800 gtx bfg vid card Other Thoughts: loaded win xp32 next morning went to do updates would not boot according to book i had low voltages tried 3 psu's all the same checked psu voltages and load tested all ok the mother board just kept flashing a the hd light and making small pop noise from speaker called gigabytes tech the knew exactly the problem told to rma the board ram and cpu and that they were aware of the problem so now i cant get another so back to a s u s from Newegg.com I had no problems with raid. It supported the video well. Cons: The thing couldn't handle more than 2 usb devices, I'm still baffled at this one all drivers installed iv go over the book looked into the bios and still cant find a solution. second the DRAM setup sucks. from Newegg.com Pros: I got this motherboard a few hours before it went out of stock from Newegg to replace my A**S M2N-SLI Deluxe which had serious problems. In all my research of benchmarks this board is amazing. from Newegg.com Pros: First time builder and it was plug and play with Vista Premium. You will need to download the new drivers from Gigabyte website but this board is running all day and runs cool ! Cons: The last NVidia 590 chips were run in Dec.06 . from Newegg.com Once that is done the system automatically recognizes the hardware change. What it does is allows one ethernet card to handle d/l packets the other to handle u/l packets. A very nice feature for gaining that most important PING advantage whilst gaming. Can be somewhat problematic with a wireless router, as I have discovered, but really no big deal. from Newegg.com Pros: This board has a great array of features and overclocks nicely. Cons: I got my first one DOA. The replacement had an issue where it would display the wrong temperature. from Newegg.com Pros: ok guys...called gigabyte thursday, was told that this board has been discontinued, whatever is left in pipeline is all that is left. they pointed me to another company that was supposed to have some left, they couldn't even find it on their listing. from Newegg.com This board is sold out across the net. Now Almost nobody has it for sale. Newegg is out of stock for more then a week. I called Gigabyte, they said they have the supply and it takes reseller only 2 days to get restocked on the item. from Newegg.com Pros: Awesome IS All I Need To Say This Board Pawns Have Used Many Different Brands Of Boards This Has Been The Most Stable For Me Had a Few Issues With Sata But Once I Updated The Bios To F7 From The F4 Bios It Has Worked Flawless No Issues And GigaByte Support Has Been Good To Me I Recommend This Board To Anyone :) I Have Used GigaByte In Past Builds And as Always GigaByte Has Never Failed Me Been Very Reliable!!! Cons: None Other Thoughts: None from Newegg.com

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NVIDIA nForce 590 SLI Chipset, ATX, Socket AM2, FSB: 2000 MHz, Max RAM: 16 GB

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Released	over 3 years ago
Socket Type	Socket AM2
Compatible Processors	AMD Athlon 64, AMD Sempron, AMD Athlon 64 FX, AMD Athlon 64 X2
Memory Type	DDR2 SDRAM
Number of Memory Slots	4 x 240 Pin DIMMs
Audio Input	Microphone Jack 1 x Line In SPDIF In
Audio Output	Sound Card SPDIF Out 7.1 Channels Line Out Optical Out
Bios Type	2 x 4 Mbit Flash ROM
Chassis Type	Desktop
Chipset	NVIDIA nForce 590 SLI
Compatibility	PC
Depth	9.61 in.
Expansion Slots	PCI Express x16 x 2 PCI x 2 PCI Express x1 x 2 PCI Express x8 x 1
Fans	1 x 4-pin fan headers 2 x 3-pin fan headers Fan Speed Control
Form Factor	ATX
Front Side Bus Speed	2000 MHz
Integrated Audio	Intel High Definition Audio Subsystem Realtek ALC883
Integrated Input/Output Ports	FireWire (IEEE1394a) x 3 RJ45 Lan Port x 2 USB 2.0 x 10 Serial Port x 1 PS/2 Mouse x 1 PS/2 Keyboard x 1 Parallel Port (ECP/EPP/SPP) x 1 Floppy Port x 1
MPN	GAM59SLIS5
Max Supported RAM	16 GB
Max supported CPUs qty	1
Networking Type	Ethernet, Gigabit Ethernet, Fast Ethernet
Other Features	Chassis intrusion detection Dual Channel Memory Architecture 64bit Ready
Package Qty	1
Power Configurations	ACPI/APM Power Management Wake On Ring Header Suspend to RAM Wakeup from Keyboard/Mouse
RAID Support	JBOD Support SATA RAID 0 SATA RAID 1 SATA RAID 0+1 SATA RAID 5
Regulatory Approval	FCC Class B CE EN 60950 EN 61000-3-2 EN55022 EN55024 FCC Part 15 EN50082-1 EN 61000-3-3
Storage Controller Type(s)	DMA/ATA-133 (Ultra) x 1, Serial ATA II x 8
Supported RAM speeds	800 Mhz 533 MHz 400 MHz 667 MHz
Video Interface	Dual PCI Express x16
Width	12.01 in.

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