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ECS P45T-A Intel P45 Express Motherboard Review

Written by Administrator, on 09-08-2008 00:53

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ECS provides the bare minimum bundle with their boards but that is also reflected in their prices. ECS products are consistently less expensive when compared to similar products from other manufacturers. The included hardware installation guide may come in handy for novice system builders as it provides plenty of color images for each step. Of course there are a couple of issues I would like to address. After inserting the support CD and running the automatic setup, the program informed me that it did not support my Vista 64-bit operating system. But I was still able to dig through the CD and install the chipset, audio and ethernet drivers for the board. And even though there are four included SATA cables, I feel there should be enough for all six ports found on the board. This would be to eliminate the need to track down two more cables if one had to make use of all available SATA ports.

ECS P45T-A Motherboard Specification :

PRODUCT	ECS P45T-A Motherboard
CPU SUPPORT	Socket LGA 775 Intel Core 2 Quad / Core 2 Extreme / Core 2 Duo / Pentium Extreme / Pentium D / Pentium 4 1333 / 1066 / 800 MHz System Bus
CHIPSET	Intel P45 Eaglelake / ICH10R
MEMORY	Four DDR2 dual channel memory sockets DDR2 800 / 667 MHz, non-ECC un-buffered memory 16GB maximum
EXPANSION SLOTS	Two PCI Express 2.0 x16 slots with ATI CrossFireX Technology at x8 speed Two PCI Express x1 slots Two PCI slots
STORAGE	Intel ICH10R Southbridge Six SATA 3.0Gb/s ports Intel Matrix Storage supporting SATA RAID 0, 1, 5 and 10 JMicron JMB361 Two UltraDMA 133/100/66 devices One External SATA 3.0Gb/s port (SATA On-the-Go)
AUDIO	RealTek ALC883 8-channel High Definition Audio CODEC
LAN	Athlos L1 PCIe Gigabit LAN controller
REAR I/O PANEL	One PS/2 Keyboard port One PS/2 Mouse port One COM port One External SATA port One RJ45 LAN port Six USB 2.0 / 1.1 ports 8-channel Audio I/O ports
INTERNAL I/O HEADERS	One 24-pin ATX Power Supply connector One IDE connector Six SATA connectors Three USB headers support addistional six USB ports One Clear CMOS header One Front panel header One Front panel audio header One CD_in header Three fan headers One Reset button One Power button
SYSTEM BIOS	AMI BIOS with 8Mb SPI ROM
FORM FACTOR	ATX 12" x 9.6"
WARRANTY	3 year warranty for parts (2 year parts and labor) with a valid invoice