GeForce 6100PM-M2 V2.0 Motherboard

[Sebastian.j]

GeForce 6100PM-M2 V2.0 Motherboard:
"The funny thing about how expensive technology is, is that as soon as you buy something that costs $300, it's automatically obsolete and is worth roughly 1/3 of the original price. Actually, it was pretty much obsolete the moment you bought it. The world of the PC DIYer is a fantastic world, but the price bracket sucks the biggest set of hairy boys possible. That's why when I had to replace my motherboard on my tight budget, I went for one that wouldn't break the bank. Because let's face it. There are going to be a couple dozen introduced next week that will render your new i7 compatible board as ancient technology. I think I'll stick with my Athlon Dual Core until the price range comes down.

The motherboard I chose to replace the junker with the fried PCI-E slot is the GeForce 6100PM-M2. Yeah, it has an Nvidia chipset. And while Nvidia may not make the best chipset on earth, they make one of the cheapest when you are on a budget. And since it supports my Athlon 64 X2, along with 16GB of DDR2 RAM, I am more than happy to give it a shot"

[Sebastian.j]

The ECS GeForce 6100PM-M2 supports dual-channel 800/667/533/400 DDR2 memory, PXI Express x16/x1, SATA 2, RAID 0, 1, 0+1, and 5 configurations, 6-channel audio, and USB 2.0. Plus, it features the NVIDIA GeForce 6100/P-based 2D/3D graphics engine and Integrated DirectX 9 graphics processor. Get top-shelf performance at a bargain basement price with our ECS GeForce 6100PM-M2 (V2.0) Socket AM2+ microATX motherboard.

Specifications:

CPU:
Supports Socket AM2+ AMD Phenom,AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core, Athlon 64,Sempron processor
High-performance Hyper Transport CPU interface
Support transfer rate of 2000/1600/1200/800/400 mega-transfers per second.

Socket:
Socket AM2+ Motherboard


Chipset:
NVIDIA GeForce 6100

Memory:
Supports 2 x 240-pin DDR2 DIMM socket support up to 16 GB
Dual-channel DDR2 memory architecture
Support DDR2 800/667/533/400 DDR2 SDRAM

I/O:
1 x 24-pin ATX Power Supply connector
1 x 4-pin ATX 12V connector
1 x FDD connector
1 x IDE connector
4 x Serial ATA connectors
1 x Speaker header
1 x SPDIF out header
1 x IrDA for SIR header (optional)
3 x USB 2.0 headers support additional 6 USB ports
1 x Front panel switch/LED header
1 x Front panel audio header
CD in header
CPUFAN/SYSFAN connectors

BIOS:

Award BIOS with 8Mb Flash ROM
Supports Plug and Play, STR/STD, Hardware monitor, Multi Boot, DMI
Supports ACPI revision 1.0 specification

Back panel I/O:

1 x PS/2 keyboard & PS/2 mouse connectors
1 x Serial port (COM1)
1 x VGA port
1 x RJ45 LAN connector
4 x USB ports
1 x Parallel port (LPT1) (Optional)
1 x Audio port (Line-in, Line-out, Mic-in)

[Danior]

HI,
Made me happy. Installed this in my old eMachines box in all of 30 minutes with 4GB of OCZ PC6400DDR2 800MHz memory and it booted right up. BIG difference running 32 bit Vista. Wish it had one more IDE header. Onboard video aint the best, but that's what video cards are for, right?