Gigabyte AM2 nForce 520LE DDR2 ATX A L

Description

• Supports next generation of 45nm AMD socket AM3 processors

  This motherboard supports the upcoming 45nm AMD AM3 Phenom II series processors, delivering the great performance enchantment to system and ultimate scalability hardware expending.

• AMD Phenom processors support

  The AMD Phenom processors are an ideal choice for multi-media enthusiasts and intensive multi-tasking environments to offer significant performance boosts and provides an overall more energy efficient platform.

• Speed

  The speed compliant motherboards of Gigabyte S series provide intelligent over-clocking and over-voltage software settings through the well known EasyTune5, R.G.B. and M.I.T. utilities!

• 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.

• AMD Athlon 64 FX/64 X2/64 processor

  The leading-edge performance and unparallel technology of the eighth generation AMD Athlon 64 socket AM2 series processor has built its strength on the well-known AMD 64 framework which consisted of 64-bit computing platform, HyperTransport technology, and integrated memory controller. The Athlon 64 X2 dual-core processor brings the power and multitasking performance on the desktop platform and ensures superior performance on mission critical business applications.

• NVIDIA nForce 520LE

  The NVIDIA nForce MCP65 media and communications processor (MCP) is the latest generation of PCI Express core logic designed for entry and mainstream desktop markets. It builds on the award-winning single-chip, scalable architecture of the NVIDIA nForce MCP.

• 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 x1 interface 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 Athlon 64 series processor 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 and 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, 1based on users' priority of protection/ performance. This NVIDIA RAID function makes the RAID even more accessible by introducing the innovative windows-based facility.

• DualBIOS - patented dual hardware BIOS protection

  DualBIOS is a Gigabyte patented technology that automatically recovers BIOS data when main BIOS has crashed or failed. Featuring 2 physical BIOS ROMs integrated onboard, Gigabyte DualBIOS allows quick and seamless recovery from BIOS damage or failure due to viruses or improper BIOS updating.

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