Thread: ECS G43T-M Motherboard

he new motherboard from ECS, the G43T-M comes with an LGA-775 socket. designed to run both core 2 Duo or a Core 2 Quad processor. The northbridge is the Eaglelake G43 and the Intel ICHIO at the southbridge. With support for front side bus speeds of up to 1333Mhz, the motherboard also has dual channel DDR2 support (4 slots). The standard set of features on this motherboard incl ude six serial ATA 2 ports, IDE channel support, PCI express x 16 and Gigabit Ethernet. Apart from these, it also has support for 8 channel HD audio and an HDMI port which is a plus at its price.



We tested the motherboard using an Intel Core 2 Quad processor running with 2.6 6GHz coupled with 1 GB RAM and 320GB HDD at 7200rpm and Windows XP SP3. Because it's an entry level motherboard. we were expecting a just decent
performance. The PC Mark score on this motherboard was a decent 4761 and so was the case with pav ray at 46951. It performed poorly while running the 3D Mark benchmark which tests graphics capability with a score of just 542 3D marks. We used the SiSoftware Sandra to check for memory latency and it scored 108ns. The last benchmark used on this one was the Cinebench RIO. The score whi'le rendering one CPU was 2178 which is decent for an entry level motherboard.