On Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 07:05:55PM +0000, Dave Crossland wrote:
It arrives tomorrow so I can't check for sure, but an image of the board is at
http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/FileList/Image/motherboard_productimage_m57sli-s4...
and the manual at
http://europe.giga-byte.com/FileList/Manual/motherboard_manual_ga-m57sli-s4_...
says the BIOS is between the two graphics card slots, and _looks_ like its not soldered on.
We got 2 boards from newegg last week, and the bios *is* soldered on :(
However, there's this photo:
http://www.motherboards.org/imageview.html?i=/images/reviews/motherboards/16...
There must be more than one revision of this board floating around.
It really sucks that they saved $0.30 or so on a socket - seems a bit extravagant since this board is not low-end (for a desktop board).
Thanks, Ward.