Gigabyte AM2 motherboard lineup

DailyTech has details of Gigabyte’s internal roadmap with the full lineup of upcoming Socket 775 and Socket AM2 motherboards:

Gigabyte has five “tiers” of upcoming AM2 motherboards, each denoted by an “S.” An “S5″ motherboard is more high-end than an “S4″ motherboard. Each “S” denotes a different feature, such as SLI, Silent, etc.

Like the ASUS offerings, Gigabytes best of breed motherboards for AM2 will feature NVIDIA’s nForce 590 SLI chipset. The M59SLI-S5 has dual x16 PCIe graphics, dual eSATA ports, dual BIOSes, ten USB 2.0 interfaces and eight SATA 3.0Gbps interfaces.. The M59SLI-S5 also has the widely talked about RealTek ALC888DD “Dolby Digital” audio codec.. Gigabyte’s internal roadmap claims that this motherboard is Tritium-ready.

The nForce 570 M57SLI-S4 is Gigabyte’s mid-range model for AM2.. Gigabyte will have an M55plus-S3G based on the NVIDIA GeForce 6100 / MCP 430 matchup. An MCP51 version of this board is also expected dubbed the M51GM-S2G.

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