
Board Revision: 0.2
Installed BIOS: F7 (01-18-2007)
Upgraded with: F12 (11-21-2007)
Finally, we found a motherboard for which we found an updated BIOS that officially includes Phenom support as well as some bug fixes. Like the Epox MF570 SLI, the Gigabyte M57SLI-S4 is based on Nvidia's mainstream SLI chipset nForce 570 SLI with support for dual x8 PCI Express graphics. With the exception of having only a three phase voltage regulator, this product is very well equipped and offers a plethora of BIOS features for enthusiasts. However, we weren't able to run it with the Phenom processor - despite official BIOS support. The pre-production motherboard revision 0.2 could be the issue, though.
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Summary
- The Phenom Plug-In Upgrade Doesn't Work
- Motherboard BIOS Updates
- How We Tested
- Test Setup
- Test Results
- Asus M2A-VM HDMI (AMD690G)
- Biostar TForce 590 SLI Deluxe (Nvidia nForce 590 SLI)
- Epox MF570 SLI (Nvidia nForce 570 SLI)
- Foxconn C51XEM2AA (Nvidia nForce 590 SLI)
- Foxconn/Winfast K8M890M2MA-RS2H (VIA K8M890 chipset)
- Gigabyte GA-M57SLI-S4 (Nvidia nForce 570 SLI)
- Gigabyte GA-M59SLI-S5 (Nvidia nForce 590 SLI)
- MSI K9A Platinum (ATI Crossfire Xpress 3200)
- MSI K9NU Neo-V (ULi/Nvidia M1697)
- Conclusion
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0 Hidespearhead , June 1, 2008 11:30 AMtoo many vendors boycott the upgradebility they just dont want to release a simple bios update because they want to force costumers to buy a new motherboard. it would anger me i would have bought a am2 motherboard and the vendor was such a bastard to boycott the upgrade.today those bios updates are rare too find. so far i have only few vendors who upgrade there bios. apperently ASUS support it the best so that is why i will choose ASUS above all those cheap bastards from now on
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0 HideAnonymous , August 29, 2008 3:50 PMwill it run a am2 quad core or not?
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0 HideAnonymous , December 8, 2010 3:46 PMhow d o get a mamuall for this motherboard0000 MSI K9NU Neo-V (ULi/Nvidia M1697)
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0 HideAnonymous , December 8, 2010 3:47 PMhow d o get a mamuall for this motherboard0000 MSI K9NU Neo-V (ULi/Nvidia M1697)
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0 HideAnonymous , December 13, 2010 7:52 AMWhere can i find the driver for this mother board winfast k8t890m2aa-krs2h