Gigabyte GA-M68MT-S2 (rev. 1.3)
Excellent low budget motherboard - Gigabyte GA-M68MT-S2 (rev. 1.3) Motherboard

Product Type: Gigabyte motherboards

Newest Review: ... lags during playing the games. 2. On/Off Charge Technology This technology allows you to charge cell phones. Three years ago when my cel... more

Excellent low budget motherboard
Gigabyte GA-M68MT-S2 (rev. 1.3)

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Gigabyte GA-M68MT-S2 (rev. 1.3)

Date: 31/03/12

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Advantages: Support AMD 6-Core CPU

Disadvantages: Chipset Type NVIDIA at same place with vga onboard

The Plus side:
1. Support AMD 6 Core CPU
With AMD 6 Core CPU you can do a lot of thing like multitasking, multimedia and high performance gaming.
For AAA games, you gonna need high performance graphics card like NVIDIA GTX series. If using the onboard vga, it will lags during playing the games.

2. On/Off Charge Technology
This technology allows you to charge cell phones. Three years ago when my cell phone charger broken, I have to make my own cell phone charger using USB cable and tap it into my old motherboard. My cell phone draws around 100 mA and took about more than 2 hours to complete the charging. With this technology I don't have to worry about the motherboard being lack of power when charging cell phone.

3. PCI Express Interface
The motherboard got PCI-E x16 for placing additional external VGA card. So you have two options whether using the onboard vga or add external vga card.

4. Supporting up to 8GB of system memory.
4 GB RAM is more than enough for web browsing or playing games or web caching. Better using Win 7 64 bit if using RAM >= 4 GB.

The not so good side:
1. NVIDIA GeForce 7025 / NVIDIA nForce 630a GPU
Not support dx10 and dx11. Only support dx9. That mean you need to add external VGA card to play high performance games (Crysis 2, COD MW, etc.).

Summary: Low budget motherboard with a lot of feature including on/off technology.

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