Gigabyte 73UM-S2H and 73PVM-S2H
Layout and Features
Both the motherboards are built on the Micro-ATX form factor, so they are of compact size.
Let's start with the essential: both the boards are based on the same PCB design and offer a minimum of distinctions.
Both the offer the integrated GeForce 7150/7100 graphic core and allow for use of an external video card which is installed into the PCI Express x16 slot.
The configuration of the remaining slots is identical for both the motherboards: each uses two PCI slots and one PCI Express x16 slot.
To cool the chipset, both the motherboards use only an aluminum radiator.
Both the motherboards have two 240-pin DIMM slots each for DDR2 memory modules, with the overall supported memory capacity being 4 GB.
The basic expansion options of motherboards based on GeForce 7150 and 7100 chipsets are absolutely identical because of the same nForce 630i south bridge. In particular, the chipset supports four SerialATA II lines, with the option to arrange RAID arrays of levels 0, 1, 0+1, and 5. At the same time, there is support for one ParallelATA line.
Three SerialATA ports are installed near the DIMM slots, with the fourth one brought over to the rear panel.
Then the boards support ten USB2.0 port. Four of them are on the rear panel, with 6 more plugged in via brackets (missing in the bundle). Besides, both the boards use the FireWire controller - a TSB43AB23 chip made by Texas Instruments. This chip supports two Firewire ports: one mounted on the rear panel, with the other one being additional (no bracket in the package bundle).
Also, the two boards implement the High Definition Audio subsystem, and the ALC889A chip is used as the codec.
Now a few words on the network support: both the motherboards use a high-speed (Gigabit Ethernet) RTL8211B LAN controller made by Realtek:
The board's rear panel is of the following configuration:
Of note is that the boards lack both COM ports and the one LPT port: the LPT and one COM ports are implemented with a bracket (missing in the package bundle). On the other hand, the panel uses VGA, DVI, and HDMI outputs, one FireWire, and External SerialATA ports. Near tem, there is an optical SP-DIF output.
Here is the traditional layout of the board:
Now on to the BIOS settings.
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