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W1zzard
03-23-2007, 02:01 PM
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Last year, ECS has announced plans that they will enter the video card business. They will offer a complete lineup of NVIDIA GeForce cards, up to the highest-end 8800 GTX models. With ECS' huge manufacturing capacities and excellent engineering knowledge, they could quickly become a big player in the NVIDIA video card market.

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Even though the name says 965, the ECS 965PLT-A is powered by the Intel 946GZ, which essentially is a 965 chipset. The board uses an integrated Intel GMA 3000 graphics core to provide on-board VGA. You have two PCI-Express slots available for two video cards that can run in ATI CrossFire mode.

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On the ECS AMD690GM-M2 you find AMD's brand-new AMD 690 chipset which is among the most cost effective solutions for the AMD platform when you want to use integrated VGA.

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The G33T-M is based on Intel's G33 chipset which features integrated VGA. The board will have a DVI connector for high-quality video output. It comes with prominent features such as Viiv support, IEEE1394 and Gigabit Ethernet.

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As direct competition to the AMD 690 Chipset, NVIDIA released their GeForce 7080 integrated graphics. The board features DVI output, High-Def Audio and Gigabit Ethernet.

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The ECS MCP73T-M uses on-board VGA as well but can run the latest Intel processors.


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Another board with Intel's new chipsets is the P35T-A. It supports DDR2 and DDR3, overclocking limitations have been removed. Other than that the board comes with the usual features like six SATA-II connectors and IEEE1394 Firewire. The two PCI-E x16 slots support ATI CrossFire.

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Q33T-M and Q35T-M are identical in PCB design and specs are very similar. the Q33 board use the Intel Q33 chipset + ICH9 Southbridge, the Q35 uses Intel's Q35 + ICH9DO Southbridge.

WarEagleAU
03-29-2007, 04:22 PM
ECS makes some great motherboards, just too bad they wont branch out into the ATI segment of the Video Card Industry. They are essentially alienating half of the gaming world :(