Motherboard AM3 GA-M52LT-D3P

Despite almost five years have passed since Nvidia introduced its nForce chipset 500-series, with socket AM2 for AMD and Intel LGA 775 motherboards, Gigabyte recently announced the launch of new solutions based on a design that is compatible with the latest AMD AM3 processors.

This support includes the Phenom series processors Athlon II and II, GA-M52LT-D3P also allows users to install high-performance processor cores based on the six-core thuban.

However, despite support from AMD's most advanced chip, the other specs list a bit unusual, this motherboard has no less than four PCI slots, a floppy connector as well as parallel and serial ports.

limited number of SATA storage devices just two, a user who wants to install more drives must rely on the IDE connector that supports ATA-133/100/66/33 and a maximum of 2 IDE devices. Other features include four DDR3 DIMM slots, supporting up to 16GB 1666MHz memory, 4 +1 phase VRM, high definition audio codec, Japan solid capacitors and dual-BIOS technology.

Motherboard upgrade options from some further enhanced by the presence of two PCI Express x1 slots.

Motherboard GA-M52LT-D3P, there is an I / O panel on the back that houses a number of connectors, including two PS / 2 ports, four USB 2.0 ports, audio jacks and S / PDIF In / Out, and Ethernet ports with NIC Realtek 8201EL Integrated 10/100 Mbit.

Chipset supports RAID 0 +1 and RAID 5, although both are not implemented in a Gigabyte motherboard.