The first motherboard to support LinuxBIOS

GIGABYTE M57SLI-S4 - the first motherboard for desktop PCs, supported free open BIOS. It is said that the board went through the engineer AMD Yinghai Lu, who released GPL release LinuxBIOS last month. Conform to the latest achievements of technology motherboard based on NVIDIA nForce 570 SLI and the latest socket AMD - AM2, supporting AMD Athlon 64 X2, Athlon 64 FX, and Athlon 64 processors.

Other features:
- 2X PCI Express x16 slots
- 3X PCI Express x1 slots
- 2X PCI slots
- 3X 1394a (FireWire) ports
- 10X USB 2.0
- 16GB maximum memory
- SATA RAID
- 6X SATA 3Gb / s slots.

At the moment price fee of around $ 140.

22 February 2007 | , , amd, bios, fee, gpl, month, release, support

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