Difference between revisions of "Gigabyte m57sli Vendor Cooperation Score"

Revision as of 03:54, 12 September 2008

Gigabyte M57SLI has gone out of production as of September 2008, but may still be available from some distributors.

Item	Points	Max
#Documentation	49	80
#Hackability	1	24
#Example and support code	0	10
Total	50	114

Score: 49/80

Item	Availability	Points
CPU (AMD Athlon 64 X2/AMD Athlon 64 FX/AMD Athlon 64)
Datasheet / register set	Freely available [1] [2] [3]	10
BIOS programming guide	Freely available [4] [5] [6]	10
Errata	Freely available [7] [8] [9]	10
Chipset (Nvidia nForce 570-SLI)
Datasheet / register set	NDA allowing GPL'd code	3
BIOS programming guide	NDA allowing GPL'd code	3
Errata	NDA allowing GPL'd code	3
Super I/O (ITE IT8716)
Datasheet / register set	Freely available [10]	10
Mainboard
Schematics	Documentation is not available or the NDA does not allow release of code.	0

Score: 1/24. Soldering required to recover from a bad flash.

Item	Status	Points
Rom chip	Soldered with space on the board for a secondary rom chip (pads unpopulated).	1
LPC header	No	0
JTAG header	No	0

Item	Status	Points
Example and support code	Code is not available or the NDA does now allow release of code.	0

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 == Availability ==
-[http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/Products/Motherboard/Products_Overview.aspx?ProductID=2539 Gigabyte M57SLI] is [http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128014 widely available] as of August 2008.
+[http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/Products/Motherboard/Products_Overview.aspx?ProductID=2539 Gigabyte M57SLI] has gone out of production as of September 2008, but [http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128014 may still be available] from some distributors.
 == Vendor Cooperation Score ==