Review: Digit-Life
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A new processor socket is a good occasion for motherboard manufacturers to expand or reposition their product lines. This time Gigabyte decided to try its hand in the segment of elite motherboards on NVIDIA chipsets (it had missed nForce4 SLI X16).
Like models from the main competitors, the M59SLI-S5 is equipped with a passive chipset cooling system with heat pipes, an excessively luxurious set of peripheral interfaces. The central brand option is support for 3 sterling (they can accommodate a video card) PCI Express ports. Two of them operate in x16 mode, the third one is announced as PCI Express x8. Along with a logical option to install three video cards to connect six monitors, in this case two video cards can form SLI, while the third card can be used for computing physics in games.
Aug 5, 2006, 07:06 AM
