• AMD Athlonâ„¢64/ Sempron socket AM2 platform
• Supports high performance Dual Channel DDR2 800 memory
• Integrated NVIDIA® CineFX 3.0 Graphics Engine
• Features NVIDIA® SATA 3Gb/s with RAID function
• Integrated 10/100 Ethernet solution
• Enhances security with NVIDIA TCP/IP Acceleration technology
• Features 8 channel High Definition Audio
• RoHS compliant motherboard for green computing
• Supports Windows Vista Premium

Introduction
GIGABYTE Technology latest S series motherboards for AMD socket AM2 platform, featuring with two innovative features- Safe and Smart Technologies. The new S series motherboards GA-M61PME-S2; supporting AMD new generation AM2 processor with dual channel DDR2 800MHz high frequency memories, providing reliable and user friendly computing and reaching the maximum system performance easily via personalized software settings. GIGABYTE S series motherboards, the champion's choice for AMD Socket AM2 platform!

Smart
The Smart featured motherboards of GIGABYTE S series provide GIGABYTE proprietary innovative software such as Download Center, @BIOS, Q-Flash, Xpress Install, Boot menu, and Smart Fan. BIOS and driver management now becomes much easier and user friendly through GIGABYTE Smart features!...more

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. Unique system software such as Xpress Recovery 2, PC Health Monitor, HDD S.M.A.R.T., and C.O.M. further strengthen the stability and reliability of your PC!...more

Windows Vista Premium Logo Certified
Windows Vista Premium promises to deliver a streamlined computing experience designed to fundamentally change how users view, find and organize their digital information. With GIGABYTE new S series socket AM2 solutions all enabling support for Vista Premium, GIGABYTE offers a fresh and unique desktop experience that will be more informative, intuitive and completely new...more

Energy Star 4.0
Energy Star 4.0 is mainly verified the consumption of system energy resources. Therefore GIGABYTE also takes the lead to promote the motherboard of Energy Star 4.0 compliant. It can conform to the authentication standard when it collocates the specific equipment. Users can select this motherboard for the assembly system in high stability and high efficiency performance. Also, it can achieve energy saving and reducing the greenhouse gas produced from electric discharge produces for energy and expenses saving...more

AMD Live Ready
AMD Live Ready Requirement compliant.

AMD Athlonâ„¢64 FX/ 64 X2 / 64 Processor
The leading-edge performance and unparallel technology of AMD Athlonâ„¢64 socket AM2 series processor has built its strength on the well-known AMD64 framework which consisted of 64-bit computing platform, HyperTransport Technology, and integrated memory controller. The latest Athlonâ„¢64 socket AM2 processor brings the power and multitasking performance on the desktop platform and ensures superior performance on mission critical business applications.

NVIDIA® GeForce 6100 / nForce 430 GPU
The brand new NVIDIA® GeForce 6100 / NVIDIA® nForce 430GPU features CineFX™ 3.0 Engine. This unique combination of 6100 GPU creates a single motherboard featuring a world-class DX9, Shader Model 3.0 GPU for faster and smoother game-play, a high quality video processing engine for advance quality of video and DVD playback.

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 x1interface 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 Athlon64 FX/ 64 X2 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 & 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, 1, 0+1, based on users' priority of protection/ performance. This NVIDIA RAID function makes the RAID even more accessible by introducing the innovative windows-based facility.

High Definition Audio
Experience home theater-quality sound with your PC using High Definition Audio for enhanced multi-channel audio, improved voice and communication input, and multi-streaming capability.