MODEL- GA-M61SME-S2       VENDOR- GIGABYTE TECHNOLOGY
    
FEATURES- mATX nVIDIA chipset Motherboard
       AMD Athlon64/Sempron socket AM2 platform 
       Supports high performance Dual Channel DDR2 800 memory 
       Integrated NVIDIA CineFX 3.0 Graphics Engine 
       Features NVIDIA SATA 3Gb/s with RAID function 
       Integrated 10/100 Ethernet solution 
       Enhances security with NVIDIA TCP/IP Acceleration technology 
       Features 8 channel High Definition Audio 
       RoHS compliant motherboard for green computing 
       Supports Windows Vista Premium 
       GIGABYTE Technology latest S series motherboards for AMD socket AM2 
        platform, featuring with two innovative features- Safe and Smart 
        Technologies. The new S series motherboards GA-M61SME-S2; 
        supporting 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. GIGABYTE S series 
        motherboards, the champion's choice for AMD Socket AM2 platform!
* Smart
   The Smart featured motherboards of GIGABYTE S-series provide GIGABYTE 
   proprietary innovative software such as Download Center, @BIOS, Q-Flash, 
   Xpress Install, Boot menu, and Smart Fan. BIOS and driver management now 
   becomes much easier and user friendly through GIGABYTE Smart features!
    - Download Center
      Smart driver selection and download from Gigabyte's website.
    - Xpress Install
      Complete drivers installation on one simple click.
    - Smart LAN
      BIOS built-in diagnostic program to examine LAN cable connection 
      status.
    - @BIOS/Q-Flash
      Smart and automatic BIOS update via internet/BIOS built-in flash 
      utility.
    - Boot Menu
      Select boot device without entering bios setup.
    - Smart Fan
      Make your system cooler and quieter.
* Safe
   Safe is the key feature of GIGABYTE S-series motherboards with the 
   following elements: Excellent hardware design, reinforced BIOS 
   protection through GIGABYTE Virtual Dual BIOS Technology and GIGABYTE 
   BIOS Setting Recovery Technology. Unique system software such as Xpress 
   Recovery 2, PC Health Monitor, HDD S.M.A.R.T., and C.O.M. further 
   strengthen the stability and reliability of your PC!
    - Virtual Dual BIOS
      BIOS crash free protection with physical BIOS and Xpress BIOS Rescue.
    - BIOS Settings Recovery
      Recoverable Safe and frequently used CMOS settings.
    - HDD S.M.A.R.T.
      Hard drive "Self Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology" 
      support.
    - C.O.M. (Corporate Online Manager)
      System administration utility for local area network.
    - Xpress Recovery 2
      Quick system image backup and restore.
    - PC Health Monitor
      System health monitor via bios and EasyTune utility.
* Windows Vista Premium Logo Certified
   Windows Vista Premium promises to deliver a streamlined computing 
   experience designed to fundamentally change how users view, find and 
   organize their digital information. With GIGABYTE 'S' series socket 
   AM2 solutions all enabling support for Vista Premium, GIGABYTE offers a 
   fresh and unique desktop experience that will be more informative, 
   intuitive and completely new.
* Energy Star 4.0 
   Energy Star 4.0 is mainly verified the consumption of system energy 
   resources. Therefore GIGABYTE also takes the lead to promote the 
   motherboard of Energy Star 4.0 compliant. It can conform to the 
   authentication standard when it collocates the specific equipment. Users 
   can select this motherboard for the assembly system in high stability 
   and high efficiency performance. Also, it can achieve energy saving and 
   reducing the greenhouse gas produced from electric discharge produces 
   for energy and expenses saving.
* AMD Live Ready
   AMD Live Ready Requirement compliant!
* AMD Athlon64 FX/64 X2/64/Sempron Processor
   The leading-edge performance and unparallel technology of AMD Athlon64 
   socket AM2 series processor has built its strength on the well-known 
   AMD64 framework which consisted of 64-bit computing platform, 
   HyperTransport Technology, and integrated memory controller. The latest 
   Athlon64 socket AM2 processor brings the power and multitasking 
   performance on the desktop platform and ensures superior performance on 
   mission critical business applications. 
* NVIDIA GeForce 6100/nForce 405 GPU
   The NVIDIA GeForce 6100/NVIDIA nForce 405 GPU features CineFX 3.0 
   Engine. This unique combination of 6100 GPU creates a single motherboard 
   featuring a world-class DX9, Shader Model 3.0 GPU for faster and 
   smoother game-play, a high quality video processing engine for advance 
   quality of video and DVD playback.
* PCI Express Interface
   Revolutionary PCI Express interface provides scalable bandwidth for 
   multi-purpose usage. PCI-E x16 interface doubles the bandwidth of 
   graphics interface of previous generation thus delivering the utmost 
   gaming experience. PCI-E x1interface provides twice the bandwidth of PCI 
   interface up to 250MB/s for new generation I/O peripheral devices. 
* Superior Dual channel DDR2 800 Architecture
   AMD Athlon64 FX/64 X2 achieves the milestone for desktop computing with 
   the CPU-integrated memory controller. This platform supports dual 
   channel DDR2 800 memory architecture with high bandwidth of up to 
   12.8 GB/s and shorter memory accessing latency thus delivering the
   greatest memory performance. 
* SATA 3Gb/s & RAID
   This platform supports reliable storage solution for enhanced data 
   protection and data accessing performance. Serial ATA 3Gb/s is firstly 
   introduced in this platform to provide blazingly 3Gb/s bus bandwidth 
   thus higher disk performance. The NVIDIA RAID allows multi-disk designs 
   to be set up as RAID 0, 1, 0+1, 5 based on users' priority of 
   protection/performance. This NVIDIA RAID function makes the RAID even 
   more accessible by introducing the innovative windows-based facility. 
* High Definition Audio
   Experience home theater-quality sound with your PC using High Definition
   Audio for enhanced multi-channel audio, improved voice and communication 
   input, and multi-streaming capability. 
     
  -- SPECIFICATIONs ----------------------------------
PROCESSOR    - Socket AM2 for AMD Athlon 64 FX/Athlon 64 X2 Dual-Core/
                 Athlon 64/Sempron processors.
BIOS         - Award 4Mbit flash ROM
               PnP 1.0a, DMI 2.0, SM BIOS 2.3, ACPI 1.0b 
CHIPSET      - NVIDIA GeForce 6100/nForce 405 chipset 
               Super I/O: ITE IT8716 chip 
               Integrated Peripherals: Realtek RTL8201 phy 
                                       Realtek ALC883 Audio Codec 
MAIN MEMORY  - (2) 240-pin DDR2 DIMM memory slots (supports up to 8GB 
                   memory) via dual channel DDR2 800/667/533/400 DIMMs.
                   Supports 1.8V DDR2 DIMMs 
               NOTE: 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.
EXPANSION    - (2) 32-bit PCI slots
               (1) PCI-Express x16 slot
               (1) PCI-Express x1 slot
AUDIO        - Integrated Realtek ALC883 Audio Codec
VIDEO        - Integrated nVIDIA GeForce 6100 controller
ETHERNET     - Integrated 10/100 Mbps Ethernet controller 
FIREWIRE     - None
STORAGE      - (2) UDMA ATA 133/100/66 Bus Master IDE connectors
               (2) Serial ATA 3.0Gb/s connectors with RAID function
INTERNAL I/O - (1) 24-pin ATX power connector 
               (1) 4-pin ATX 12V power connector 
               (1) Floppy connector 
               (1) IDE connector
               (2) SATA 3Gb/s connectors 
               (1) CPU fan connector 
               (1) System fan connector 
               (1) Front panel connector 
               (1) Front audio connector 
               (1) CD In connector 
               (1) COMB connector 
               (1) Power LED connector 
               (2) USB 2.0/1.1 connectors for additional (4) USB 2.0/1.1 
                   ports by cables.
               (1) SPDIF In/Out connector 
               (1) Chassis Intrusion connector 
               (1) HDA_SUR connector 
REAR PANEL I/O-
               (2) PS/2 ports for Keyboard/Mouse 
               (1) Parallel/LPT port 
               (1) COM A/Serial port
               (1) 15-pin VGA port
               (4) USB 2.0/1.1 ports 
               (1) RJ45 port 
               (3) Audio ports (Line In/Line Out/MIC In)
HARDWARE MONITORING-
               System voltage detection 
               CPU/System temperature detection 
               CPU/System fan speed detection 
               CPU warning temperature 
               CPU/System fan failure warning 
               Supports CPU/System Smart Fan function (Note 2) 
                  (Note 2) Whether the CPU Smart FAN Control function is 
                           supported will depend on the CPU you install. 
MISCELLANEOUS- Supports @BIOS 
               Supports Download Center 
               Supports Q-Flash 
               Supports EasyTune (EasyTune functions may vary depending on 
                                  different motherboards).
               Supports Xpress Install 
               Supports Xpress Recovery2 
               Supports Xpress BIOS Rescue 
POWER        - ATX power connector and ATX 12V connector 
DIMENSIONS   - microATX (24.4cm x 22.5cm)
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