GIGABYTE Announces M61 Series of NVIDIA IGP Motherboards

Post by **Apoptosis** » Tue Oct 17, 2006 1:42 pm

-GIGABYTE Announces M61 Series of NVIDIA® IGP Motherboards for the AM2 Socket-

--Highest Performance NVIDIA Single Chip Solutions of Their Class--

Taipei, Taiwan, October 17, 2006 - GIGABYTE TECHNOLOGY Co., Ltd, a leading manufacturer of motherboards, graphics cards and other computing hardware solutions, today announced the M61 series of motherboards featuring the innovative NVIDIA GeForce™ 6100 GPU and nForce™ 430/400 MCP for AMD Athlon™ 64 AM2 socket processors, enabling users to build a wide range of low-cost mainstream and media center PCs.

Delivering the industry’s best price-performance AM2 motherboards with a NVIDIA single chip IGP solution, the GIGABYTE M61 series features the NVIDIA GeForce™ 6100 GPU with integrated NVIDIA® CineFX™ 3.0 Engine. With support for Microsoft® DirectX® 9.0 Shader Model 3.0, the GeForce™ 6100 ensures top-notch compatibility and the power to run today’s most popular games and digital media applications with ease. In addition to providing stunning, high-quality video playback and superb picture clarity with the advanced NVIDIA PureVideo™ technology, the GeForce™ 6100 GPU is ready to fully support the Microsoft Windows Vista Premium operating system. Coupled with the host of advanced digital media functionality including secure networking and secure storage of the nForce™ 430/400 MCP, the GIGABYTE M61 series provides customers with powerful and affordable solutions that that fit the budget of today’s PC users.

The GIGABYTE M61 series also provides the industry’s first overclockable IGP motherboard solutions, allowing users to get the utmost performance from their systems. Featuring the proprietary GIGABYTE Robust Graphics Booster (RGB) with easy to configure BIOS settings, the M61 series gives an exceptional 10-15% performance boost for gaming or multimedia applications.

The M61 Series from GIGABYTE
GIGABYTE delivers three motherboard solutions in the M61 series based on NVIDIA GeForce 6 and nForce 4, the GA-M61P-S3 and GA-M61PM-S2 with the NVIDIA GeForce™ 6100 GPU and nForce™ 430, and the GA-M61VME-S2 with the NVIDIA GeForce™ 6100 GPU and nForce™ 400. All three motherboards feature a number of innovative technologies including Speed, Smart and Safe that provide maximum system performance and enhanced stability right out of the box.

For additional information on the GIGABYTE M61 series, please visit the GIGABYTE website at:
http://www.gigabyte-usa.com/Products/Mo ... fault.aspx

About GIGABYTE
GIGABYTE TECHNOLOGY Co., Ltd., established in 1986, is now celebrating its 20th anniversary in 2006. GIGABYTE has earned a global reputation for its outstanding achievements in the motherboard industry by upholding the concepts of innovation, quality and reliability. Over the years, GIGABYTE has won multiple national awards including the Golden Brain Prize, the Taiwan National Quality Award and most notably the Taiwan Excellence Award, which has granted GIGABYTE awards for 100% of its participating products over the past 9 years, setting an unmatched record in the motherboard industry.

From product concept and design, to mass production, all the way to integration, GIGABYTE is dedicated to providing complete digital life solutions to our customers with an ever-expanding product family of motherboards, graphics cards, PC peripherals, Desktop/Notebook PCs, wireless networking devices, servers and mobile phones. The spirit of “Upgrade Your Life” at GIGABYTE is clearly reflected through its commitment to researching the newest technologies and innovative design as well as ensuring the highest product quality and reliability. Now and in the future, GIGABYTE will continue to follow its vision of becoming the most valuable brand of digital life solutions in the world. For more information about GIGABYTE, please visit http://www.gigabyte-usa.com

ikjadoon · Post by **ikjadoon** » Sun Oct 29, 2006 6:53 pm

Isn't this a step backwards? I mean, we used to have 6150 boards, now we're back to 6100? I'll stick with the Abit NF-M2 nView, thank you very much.

~Ibrahim~

HONkUS · Post by **HONkUS** » Mon Oct 30, 2006 5:23 pm

yeah we have a comp with a 6150 and one with a 6100 up here at work and there is a small but noticable difference in the performance while playing CS:S

ikjadoon · Post by **ikjadoon** » Mon Oct 30, 2006 7:25 pm

lmao! The feature set is different as well, though.

~Ibrahim~

HONkUS · Post by **HONkUS** » Tue Oct 31, 2006 10:57 am

what IS the difference between the 6100 and 6150? is it just clock rates?

ikjadoon · Post by **ikjadoon** » Tue Oct 31, 2006 3:50 pm

HONkUS wrote:what IS the difference between the 6100 and 6150? is it just clock rates?

A few things. Yes, the 6150 is clocked at 475Mhz versus 425Mhz of the 6100. Incidentally, the 6150 core clock is 100Mhz greater than the 7800GS stock core clock...

Also has HD Video Acceleration, while the 6100 does not and can scale 5x4 versus the 6100's 2x2. The 6150 is also able to utilize DVI and video-out, while the 6100 cannot. It also comes with another PCI-e x1 channel.

That is just the GPU. The actual chipset, nForce 430 versus nForce 410 has more pronounced differences, like the 430 has 4 SATA II versus the 410's 2 and the 430 comes with Gigabit Ethernet versus the 100Mbps of the 410.

There are different combinations of this, like 6150/430, 6150/410, 6100/430, 6100/410. At least I think so. The most common two are the 6150/430 and the 6100/410 with 6150/430 being the enthusiast while 6100/410 compromising the mainstream/low-end.

So when I say 6150 to 6100 is a step lower, I mean the 6150/430 versus 6100/410 with the loss of features and/or GPU enhancement.

~Ibrahim~

HONkUS · Post by **HONkUS** » Tue Oct 31, 2006 5:07 pm

ooooooooohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh ok