Overview

GIGABYTE Technology latest S series motherboards for AMD socket AM2 platform feature four innovative features - Safe, Smart, Speed, and SLI Technologies. The new S series motherboard GA-M57SLI-S4 supports 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 outstanding graphics performance through NVidia SLI multi-GPU function provides 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!

Specification

Processor

Socket AM2 for AMD Athlon™ 64 FX/Athlon™ 64 X2 Dual-Core/Athlon™ 64/Sempron™ processor
 
Chipset

NVIDIA® nForce 570-SLI
Super I/O: ITE IT8716 chip.
Integrated Peripherals
T.I. IEEE1394 controller
Marvell 88E1116 Gigabit Ethernet controller
Realtek ALC883 Audio Codec

Memory

4 DDR2 DIMM memory slots (supports up to 16GB memory)(Note 1)
Supports dual channel DDR2 800/667/533/400 DIMMs
Supports 1.8V DDR2 DIMMs
Support ECC Memory
(Note 1) Due to the limitation of Windows 32-bit operating system, when more than 4GB of physical memory is installed, the actual memory available for the operating system will be less than 4GB; Windows 64-bit operating system doesn't have such limitation.

Internal

I/O Connectors 1 24-pin ATX power connector
1 4-pin ATX 12V power connector
1 floppy connector
1 IDE connectors
6 SATA 3Gb/s connectors
1 CPU fan connector
1 system fan connector
1 power fan connector
1 front panel connector
1 front audio connector
1 CD In connector
1 SPDIF In/Out connector
3 USB 2.0/1.1 connectors for additional 6 USB 2.0/1.1 ports by cables
2 IEEE1394a connectors for additional 2 port by cable
1 Power LED connector
1 Chassis Intrusion connector

Expansion Slots

2 PCI Express x 16 slot
3 PCI Express x 1 slot
2 PCI slots

Rear Panel I/O

1 PS/2 keyboard port
1 PS/2 mouse port
1 parallel port
1 SPDIF out port (coaxial)
1 SPDIF out port (optical)
1 COMA port
4 USB 2.0/1.1 ports
1 IEEE1394a port
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)

Power

ATX power connector and ATX 12V connector

Form Factor

ATX form factor 30.5cmx23.4cm

* The specification and pictures are subject to change without notice.