<p>GIGABYTE TECHNOLOGY Co., LTD. (GIGABYTE), ), a leading manufacturer of motherboards and VGA cards, today proudly unveiled the company’s S series of motherboards for the AMD socket AM2 platform that sport five innovative features that are important in today’s digital media environment - Safe, Smart, Speed, SLI, and Silent-Pipe Technologies. </p>
<p>With support for the new generation of AMD AM2 processors with high-frequency dual channel DDR2 800MHz memory capabilities together with an impressive range of GIGABYTE software utilities, the new S series motherboards provide reliable and user friendly platforms for maximum system performance. As the flagship of the S series range, the GA-M59SLI-S5 introduces GIGABYTE Silent-Pipe Technology that provides unequalled motherboard cooling without noisy fans or perishable moving parts. Additionally, the GA-M59SLI-S5 fields market leading graphics performance through NVIDIA SLI™ dual PCI Express x16 architecture allowing excellent scalability for extreme gaming and 3D graphics. – truly the Choice of Champions! </p>
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<p><strong>Safe:</strong> Central to the GIGABYTE S series of motherboards, the <strong>safe</strong> feature consists of excellent hardware design, reinforced BIOS protection through GIGABYTE <strong>Virtual Dual BIOS</strong> and <strong>BIOS Setting Recovery</strong> Technologies. Unique system software such as Xpress Recovery 2, PC Health Monitor, HDD S.M.A.R.T., and C.O.M. provide additional stability and reliability of PCs. </p>
<p><strong>Smart:</strong> All GIGABYTE S series motherboards include innovative proprietary software such as GIGABYTE <strong>Download</strong><strong> Center</strong>, @BIOS, Q-Flash, Xpress Install, <strong>Boot menu</strong>, and Smart Fan. With these features BIOS and driver management is a breeze! </p>
<p><strong>Speed:</strong> Selected GIGABYTE S series motherboards provide intelligent <strong>over-clocking</strong> and <strong>over-voltage</strong> software settings through the well known EasyTune5, R.G.B. and M.I.T. utilities. </p>
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<p><strong>SLI:</strong> High-end GIGABYTE S series motherboards feature support for NVIDIA SLI™ multi-GPU to not only to provide extreme graphics performance, but also to provide efficient expandability and multi-display functionality. A must-have feature for enthusiasts and gamers! </p>
<p><strong>Silent-Pipe:</strong> No stranger to high-performance GIGABYTE VGA cards and coolers, the <strong>GA-M59SLI-S5</strong> brings GIGABYTE <strong>Silent-Pipe</strong> Technology to motherboards for the first time. <strong>Silent-Pipe</strong> provides <strong>soundless heat-pipe cooling</strong> that, together with GIGABYTE <strong>Crazy Cool</strong> Technology, enhances heat dissipation efficiency from the Chipsets and CPU power components. </p>
<p><strong>GA-M59SLI-S5 Specifications </strong></p>
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<li>AMD Athlon™64 FX/ Athlon™64 X2 socket AM2 platform </li>
<li>High performance Dual Channel DDR2 800 memory </li>
<li>Enables NVIDIA SLI technology at two full-bandwidth PCI Express X16 interface </li>
<li>Optimized Dual Gigabit Ethernet solution with<strong> Teaming</strong> and failover </li>
<li>Integrated T.I. IEEE1394 FireWire interface</li>
<li>Features 8-channel High Definition Audio with <strong>DTS</strong> and <strong>Dolby</strong> </li>
<li>Enables <strong>NVIDIA LinkBoost</strong> - 25% faster clock speeds when “Optimized for NVIDIA nForce” NVIDIA GeForce graphics cards and memory are detected </li>
<li>Features SATA 3Gb/s with dual <strong>eSATA II</strong> interface </li>
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<p>GIGABYTE patent Dual BIOS Plus technology</p>
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