im a bit desperate right now.. need an answer inmediately...

is the Gigabyte GA-M57SLI-S4, ChipSet nForce 570-SLI, motherboard a good one? for a gamers pc ??

thankss!!!

IMO it's a pretty good board. Supports all the best AMD Cpu's, supports SLI, has good overclocking abilities, and a good chipset, and a good price...heh, sounds like a winner.

Also, a friend has this exact board, from newegg, anyways, the ram slots sit a little close to the cpu, things sit very close to one another, little ackward to put together, well, it may be simple depends, but other than that as far as I know it's a great performer.

another question.. this ones supports 4 DDR2's... but i want a DDR3 video card... can it handle the card?

Yes, the 4 DDR2 slots are for the system memory, has nothing to do with the memory installed on your video card. You can run any PCI-Express video card(s) on that board. (They must both be Nvidia to use SLI)
In case you're new to building PC's: When it comes to video cards, the concern usually lies with the PSU, specifically the ampage of the 12V rail. Basically just make sure your power supply will be sufficient, the video card(s) will list their requirements, these you can compare to your PSU specs. You'll also want to be sure the Nvidia cards are SLI ready, most if not all are though.

Ok, another question,... does the ddr3 video cards can be handle by any motherboard?.. didnt found any info in the internetz, some say that it doesnt matter, since the motherboard only handles ram and that stuff.. but if its video there's no problem... is there a rreal problem if i buy a ddr3 video card ?

The way i can think of explaining it is think of the graphics card as its own motherboard that can take DDR3.
So your motherboard taking DDR2 will not be affected by the graphics card motherboard which can take DDR3. In that sense its a bit like having two pc's in a LAN. PC 1 (graphics card) and PC 2 (your motherboard) dont need to have the same ram and CPU to run together in a network, just like your graphics card and motherboard dont need matching ram and processor. just the right sized slot

Quote from robt :

The way i can think of explaining it is think of the graphics card as its own motherboard that can take DDR3.
So your motherboard taking DDR2 will not be affected by the graphics card motherboard which can take DDR3. In that sense its a bit like having two pc's in a LAN. PC 1 (graphics card) and PC 2 (your motherboard) dont need to have the same ram and CPU to run together in a network, just like your graphics card and motherboard dont need matching ram and processor. just the right sized slot

too complicated :/
well.. that motherboard i posted above it doesnt say if it can handle ddr3... video cards... someone can say to me if that motherboard is okay with ddr gfx?

It should handle DDR3, I just updated my 2 year old computer and put a DDR3 video card in and it works great....So my guess would be yes it can take a DDR3 video card.

Quote from chanoman315 :

too complicated :/
well.. that motherboard i posted above it doesnt say if it can handle ddr3... video cards... someone can say to me if that motherboard is okay with ddr gfx?

Videocards ar sortet by slots. There are AGP, PCI, PCI-e and maybe some more. That motherboard is okay for pci-e videocards, no matter what memory type it have

That motherboard supports all PCI-Express video cards, it even has room for the very high end cards that take up two slots. As long as it's PCI-Express, go ahead and grab it, you'll be good. Again, a mistake many make is not having sufficient power, if it's a high-end card, make sure your power supply has sufficient power and the needed power dongles. If it requires a specific dongle for power, that your power supply doesn't have, the card may have an adapter, if so then you're good.

If this doesn't help, post the video card you want, and the power supply you have, and we can tell you if it's sufficient.

Quote from DHRammstein :

If this doesn't help, post the video card you want, and the power supply you have, and we can tell you if it's sufficient.

i want that Video EVGA NVIDIA GeForce 8600GT, 256MB DDR3
and i have 500w power supply

What's the PSU brand? If it's not some no-name, then it will work ok.

Quote from Kniebeejs :

What's the PSU brand? If it's not some no-name, then it will work ok.

i dunno.... it will be with an Acteck Nitrox 500w psupplier...

You could run two of them, you're good.

I run a COOLMAX 500 watt psu with my 8600 256mb card and works fine.