ECS -K7S5A +

[nadine]

HIoes anyone heard of ECS-K7S5A +
thanks for any info.
laters,nadine

[Baddog]

I searched Google and did not find any thing.

[gibsinep]

ECS K7S5A- Is a very good cheap board, Some stats---

K7S5A
SiS® 735 Chipset
Socket A for AMD® Athlon/Duron (K7) processors
Two 184-pin DDR DIMMs and two 168-pin DIMMs with DDR SDRAM or SDRAM support, up
to 1GB(DDR or SDRAM)
LAN: MAC integrated in SiS® 735 & PHY on board
AC97 Audio Codec on board
5 PCI slots

Has a maximun of 1GB sdram or DDR ram.

This board doesnt exactly allow you to overclock however as it isnt and overclocking board. Overall though a very stabe inexpensive board. Also the board has no RAID or debugging feature.

[Baddog]

Originally posted by nadine
HIoes anyone heard of ECS-K7S5A +

Sorry I thought you were looking for a "ECS-K7S5A +".
I have a ECS-K7S5A and XP1600 with 256 DDR. It does well for me.

Baddog

[tricktx]

in my view its the best budget board available. matching price/performance/features

[nadine]

Hi:yes I believe ECS- are going to Release the new
ECS-K7S5A + SIS 745
this mobo it doesn,t support SDRAM PC 100/133
only DDR .
thanks
laters,nadine

[gibsinep]

Oh So he does mean the one with + after it? or the already out one without the plus?

[Benssax]

Originally posted by nadine
Hi:yes I believe ECS- are going to Release the new
ECS-K7S5A + SIS 745
this mobo it doesn,t support SDRAM PC 100/133
only DDR .
thanks
laters,nadine

Hi the board your talking about is the ECS K7S6A, supports DDR2700 no sdram

[nadine]

Hi:No I meant the ECS-K7S5A+ sis 745
and not the K7S6A -sis 745
the ECS-K7S5A+ is not released yet here in CANADA
Or USA or UK
but some peoples in TW
and Italy has it
cheers
laters,nadine

[Rocketmech]

How about a link so we may review it? or a source? The TW website does'nt mention this board , nor the USA site. Only the K7S5A ,K7S5A2 and both have the 735 chipset. Also, the K7S6A which has the 745 chipset. We are bewildered!

[Peter M]

Rocketmech, skip it. The K7S6A isn't the real McCoy. What you want to review is the PC-Chips M846FL

http://www.pcchips.com.tw/M846FL.html

This one makes good use of the SiS 745, having FireWire, decent sound, and onboard LAN.

regards, Peter

[Rocketmech]

THX Peter,

I see the likeness now, the pcb color confused me

For those interested I found a link from Japan for the K7S5a+

http://world.altavista.com/sites/ded...37294-000.html

The article suggests the K7S5A+ is just an attempt by ECS to bolster the 745 by capitalizing on the K7S5A 's popularity. Regardless, they both have all the features one would need at a value. It will be interesting to see some user reviews.