The Gigabyte S-series is a range of motherboards, released in 2007, featuring the GeForce 6100 chipset. This motherboard, produced in Taiwan, is a Micro ATX (Advanced Technology Extended) form factor board, which means that it is a desktop board for smaller PCs. It's designed for use in systems with mid-range performance.
Processor Socket
The board has a single AM2 socket type, which can support Athlon 64 FX, Athlon 64, Sempron and Athlon 64 X2 processors. The FSB (front side bus) speed, which determines the data-transfer rate, is 1GHz.
Memory
The board has dual-channel memory support for up to 16GB of RAM in four DIMM slots with DDR2 RAM compatibility. However, no RAM is included with the motherboard as standard. The supported RAM speeds are 400 MHz, 533 MHz, 667 MHz and 800 MHz.
Graphics and Audio
The board's NVIDIA GeForce 6100 chipset provides integrated video and audio, allowing for graphics and audio processing without expansion cards. There is no AGP port for adding a dedicated graphics card.
Additional
The board uses Award BIOS and has four PCI slots for expansion cards. Interface ports include four USB 2.0 ports, four SATA interfaces, one FDD port and one IDE port.
Dimensions
The board measures 12 inches in width and 8.4 inches in depth.
Tags: 6100 chipset, expansion cards, GeForce 6100, GeForce 6100 chipset