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.

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!

Safe: Central to the GIGABYTE S series of motherboards, the safe feature consists of excellent hardware design, reinforced BIOS protection through GIGABYTE Virtual Dual BIOS and BIOS Setting Recovery 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.

Smart: All GIGABYTE S series motherboards include innovative proprietary software such as GIGABYTE Download Center, @BIOS, Q-Flash, Xpress Install, Boot menu, and Smart Fan. With these features BIOS and driver management is a breeze!

Speed: Selected GIGABYTE S series motherboards provide intelligent over-clocking and over-voltage software settings through the well known EasyTune5, R.G.B. and M.I.T. utilities.

SLI: 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!

Silent-Pipe: No stranger to high-performance GIGABYTE VGA cards and coolers, the GA-M59SLI-S5 brings GIGABYTE Silent-Pipe Technology to motherboards for the first time. Silent-Pipe provides soundless heat-pipe cooling that, together with GIGABYTE Crazy Cool Technology, enhances heat dissipation efficiency from the Chipsets and CPU power components.

GA-M59SLI-S5 Specifications

• AMD Athlon™64 FX/ Athlon™64 X2 socket AM2 platform
• High performance Dual Channel DDR2 800 memory
• Enables NVIDIA SLI technology at two full-bandwidth PCI Express X16 interface
• Optimized Dual Gigabit Ethernet solution with Teaming and failover
• Integrated T.I. IEEE1394 FireWire interface
• Features 8-channel High Definition Audio with DTS and Dolby
• Enables NVIDIA LinkBoost - 25% faster clock speeds when "Optimized for NVIDIA nForce" NVIDIA GeForce graphics cards and memory are detected
• Features SATA 3Gb/s with dual eSATA II interface
• GIGABYTE patent Dual BIOS Plus technology

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