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Gigabyte GA-M55PLUS-S3 AM2 NVGF6100 ATX
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1 7686 01-27-2007
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100% of reviewers $72.00 10.0



Description: AMD Athlon64 X2/ Athlon64 socket AM2 Dual Channel DDR2 800 memoryIntegrated NVIDIA CineFX 3.0NVIDIA SATA 3Gb/s and RAID 0,1,0+1,5 Gigabit Ethernet solution w NVIDIA TCP/IP AccelerationIEEE13948 channel High Definition Audio
Keywords: AMD64 X2 mainboard socket AM2
/sbin/lspci output: 0000:00:00.0 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Host Bridge (rev a2)
0000:00:00.1 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 0 (rev a2)
0000:00:00.2 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 1 (rev a2)
0000:00:00.3 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 5 (rev a2)
0000:00:00.4 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 4 (rev a2)
0000:00:00.5 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Host Bridge (rev a2)
0000:00:00.6 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 3 (rev a2)
0000:00:00.7 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 2 (rev a2)
0000:00:02.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation C51 PCI Express Bridge (rev a1)
0000:00:03.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation C51 PCI Express Bridge (rev a1)
0000:00:04.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation C51 PCI Express Bridge (rev a1)
0000:00:05.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation C51 PCI Express Bridge (rev a2)
0000:00:09.0 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation MCP51 Host Bridge (rev a2)
0000:00:0a.0 ISA bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP51 LPC Bridge (rev a3)
0000:00:0a.1 SMBus: nVidia Corporation MCP51 SMBus (rev a3)
0000:00:0a.2 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation MCP51 Memory Controller 0 (rev a3)
0000:00:0b.0 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation MCP51 USB Controller (rev a3)
0000:00:0b.1 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation MCP51 USB Controller (rev a3)
0000:00:0d.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation MCP51 IDE (rev a1)
0000:00:10.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP51 PCI Bridge (rev a2)
0000:00:10.1 0403: nVidia Corporation MCP51 High Definition Audio (rev a2)
0000:00:14.0 Bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP51 Ethernet Controller (rev a3)
0000:00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTransport Technology Configuration
0000:00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map
0000:00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller
0000:00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control
0000:01:07.0 Network controller: Techsan Electronics Co Ltd B2C2 FlexCopII DVB chip / Technisat SkyStar2 DVB card (rev 01)
0000:01:08.0 Serial controller: NetMos Technology PCI 9835 Multi-I/O Controller (rev 01)
0000:01:09.0 Network controller: AVM Audiovisuelles MKTG & Computer System GmbH A1 ISDN [Fritz] (rev 02)
0000:01:0e.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments TSB43AB23 IEEE-1394a-2000 Controller (PHY/Link)
Chipset: Geforce 6100 + nForce 430 chipset


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Old 01-27-2007, 06:51 AM   #1
troodon.de
 
Registered: Nov 2006
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Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid?: $72.00 | Rating: 10

Kernel (uname -r): 2.6.18 (SMP)
Distribution: Debian 3.1



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Great board, worked out of the box with default kernel 2.6.18 on Debian etch, using Nvidia display driver. It runs like hell with self compiled SMP kernel and dual core 4200+ CPU.

Big benefit:
-This board has 4 PCI slots!
-The chipset of this board is passive cooled (no noisy fan)

The only disadvantage I noticed was the slightly high temperature of the north bridge. I replaced the original small passive cooler by an also passive Zalman ZM-NB47J cooler which was available for 6,34 EUR.

This board is running very stable and silent.
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