ECS 945G-Miii and Cxix-A SLI CPU board.

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As ECS goes forward to gain value and care in the partizan CPU board market, the company is of course covering its reach into the section it is most beneficial known for - the budget section. While high-end and enthusiast-stage boards often price $150 or more, budget and entry-stage CPU board can generally be had for $70-90. Entry-stage doesn't inevitably correspond to a lack of great characteristics though, as established by the 2 survey candidates on the test bench today.

The ECS 945G-M3 CPU board is grounded on Intel's 945G chipset, while the ECS C19-A SLI CPU board is grounded on NVIDIA's nPower4 SLI XE chipset. Both boards sport an LGA775 socket, 667MHz DDR2 defend, 1066MHz FSB defend, Gb ethernet, SATA 3Gb/s ports and eight-channel sound.We're becoming to start this survey with a closer appear at the 945G-M3. ECS proudly screens the Intel Viiv logo on the box of this board. Put merely, the Viiv logo is guessed to suggested to the consumer that a production is entertainment PC friendly.




When you assure Viiv, you're imagined to guess of media and home theater PCs.Opening the 945G-M3 box brings out a instead skimpy bundle, which really isn't storming conceiving that this is an entry-stage board. The package admits a User Guide, rear I/O shield, one SATA cable, one SATA ability cable, 1 floppy cable and 1 IDE cable. spendthrift packages can be fun and stimulating, but simple and practical bundles accept their identify as well.

When it arrives to processor, storage and disk functioning, the entry-stage ECS 945G-M3 and C19-A SLI basically perform at the same stage, corresponding the functioning of the enthusiast-oriented GB GA-8I955X Royal.Though the 945G-M3 and C19-A SLI are geared towards different users, they extend equivalent functioning in every expression except gaming when they are weaponed with the same elements. The C19-A SLI was the exceed performer in our low character gaming tests and is of course SLI able.