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The flagship of Gigabyte's 8 Sigma range of motherboards makes full use of the Intel 915P's support for a maximum of 4GB of either DDR or DDR2.
To get around the limitations of the single Ultra ATA/100 port there are two ATA RAID-enabled ports that can be switched to a normal ATA role, freeing the single Ultra ATA/100 port for use with optical drives.
In RAID mode it supports RAID 0, 1 and 0 +1 and further configurations are available through the four SATA ports and Intel's ICH6R chip.
There's plenty of space around the components; even the memory latches are clear of the 16X PCI Express (PCX) graphics slot.
For expansion two PCI and three 1X PCX slots complement two Gigabit Ethernet ports, and a PCI Wi-Fi 802.11b/g card is also included.
The board has dual BIOS chips to help protect against system failure. A large orange slot on the board is provided for.
Gigabyte's own U-Plus Dual power system, an eight-phase power circuit card that fits into its own slot on the motherboard, designed to increase the board's stability by smoothing out power fluctuations Gigabyte's GA-8GPNXP Duo takes advantage of the new Intel technologies and ia a stable, fast motherboard.
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