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Gigabyte and MSI launch motherboards for AM2 platform
Press release, May 23; Jessie Shen, DIGITIMES [Tuesday 23 May 2006]

Micro-Star International (MSI) and Gigabyte Technology today introduced motherboards that support AMD's AM2 platform and the Nvidia nForce 500 series chipsets, while Biostar announced its TForce 590 SLI Deluxe and TForce 570 U Deluxe motherboards for the new platform.

MSI said that it has three K9N-series motherboards available, including the K9N Diamond, the K9N SLI Platinum and K9N Ultra. The K9N Diamond and K9N SLI Platinum both feature Nvidia nForce 500-series SLI chipsets and two PCIe x16 slots for supporting SLI on the AMDs AM2 platform The company is also offering the K9A Platinum which supports the ATI CrossFire Xpress3200 chipset, according to the company.

Gigabyte unveiled its first model for its S-series of motherboards for the AMD socket AM2 platform, the GA-M59SLI-S5.

MSI motherboards for AMD AM2 platform

Feature

K9N Diamond

K9N SLI Platinum

K9N Ultra

K9A Platinum

CPU

AMD Socket-AM2 Athlon 64 FX/X2 and Sempron

Chipset

Nvidia nForce 590 SLI MCP

Nvidia nForce 570 SLI MCP

Nvidia nForce 570 MCP

ATI RD580 Xpress3200

PCI Express (PCIe)

2 PCIe x16 for SLI

1 PCIe x16 slots for VGA

2 PCI-E x16 full speed slots for CrossFire mode and dual VGA

Memory

4 dual-channel DIMMs DDR2 533/667/800 (for up to 8GB)

Network port

Dual-LAN 10/100/1000 for PC center

Dual-LAN 10/100/1000 and FireWire

Audio

7.1-channel surround hardware Audio with EAX

8-channel High Definition Audio

SATA

6 SATA2, storage and data transfer up to 3.0GB/sec

RAID

0, 1, 0+1,5

Expansion slots (not including graphics slot)

2 PCIe x1, 3 PCI

USB

10x USB 2.0, 2x IEEE1394

10x USB 2.0

10x USB 2.0, 2x IEEE1394

Picture

k9n diamond

sli

neo

k9a

Source: Company, compiled by DigiTimes, May 2006

Gigabyte GA-M59SLI-S5 for the AMD AM2 platform

Item

Feature

CPU

AMD Socket-AM2 Athlon 64 FX/X2 and Sempron

Chipset

Nvidia nForce 590 SLI

Memory

4 dual-channel DIMMs DDR2 800 (for up to 16GB)

Slots

2 PCIe x16, PCIe x8, 2 PCI

Audio

8-channel ALC888DO HD Audio

SATA

8 SATA and 2 external SATA2, storage and data transfer up to 3.0GB/sec

RAID

0, 1, 0+1, 5, JBOD

Ports

10x USB 2.0, 3x IEEE1394

Photo

Gigabyte

Source: Company, compiled by DigiTimes, May 2006

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