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ECS X48T-A review mainboard Review

Written by Administrator, on 09-07-2008 01:44

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ECS a while ago started this new series in their product line-up of mainboard, ; feature packed mainboards, nice design, black PCB and decent overclocking options. All that with an affordable price tag in mind. And yes, even though today's mainboard is based on the high-end and really expensive X48 chipset, we'll show you that it's again affordable. See typically an X48 chipset based mainboard will start at roughly 250 USD. The two chips the mainboard manufacturer has to purchase from Intel total up towards 90 USD alone. I'll spill the beans already for today, you can pickup this product for 199 USD. And it even looks superb.

Pretty high-end gear for sure as Intel's X48 chipset brings support for the all new 1600 MHz FSB processors, two 16x PCI-E 2.0 slots, which you can use for ATI CrossFire, two ATI graphics cards and heaps of nice features. What's so new about X48 opposed to the previous X38 you might ask .. well the only difference between the X48 and the X38 chipsets is the official support for 400MHz FSB (1,600MHz effective) CPUs. And let me restate 'official' there as the X38 mainboards can do that FSB perfectly well if you get the latest BIOS.

ECS X48T-A Black-Extreme Technical Specifications :

CPU Support	Supports all 90nm/65nm Intel LGA775 processors 45nm ready (Wolfdale & Yorkfield) Quad-Core ready
Chipset	Northbridge: Intel X48 Southbridge: Intel ICH9R
Memory	Supports four unbuffered DIMM of 1.5 Volt DDR3 SDRAM Max 8GB Dual-channel configuration up to DDR3-1600
Storage	Intel ICH9R Southbridge 6 x SATA 3.0Gbps interface 2x PATA Intel Matrix Storage Technology Supports RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 0+1, RAID 5, RAID 10
Audio	Intel High Definition Audio (Azalia) Realtek ALC889A HD Audio CODEC Protected path content encryption/decryption (Microsoft WLP 3.0 compliant) Optical and coaxial S/PDIF
Networking	Realtek RTL8111B PCIe Gigabit Ethernet Intel 82566DC GigaLAN Controller
I/O Interface	1 x Floppy connector 1 x Ultra ATA IDE connectors 6 x SATA connectors 1 x eSATA USB 2.0 ports 6x rear, 3 x header) 2 x RJ45 LAN ports 1 x Optical S/PDIF Output 1 x Coaxial S/PDIF Output 8-Channel Audio I/O ports 1 x COM port header 1 x mini-DIN-6 PS/2 keyboard port 1 x mini-DIN-6 PS/2 mouse port
Expansion Slots	2 x PCIe x16 slots, PCI Express Bus specification v2.0 compliant 2 x PCIe x1 slots, PCI Express Bus specification v1.1 compliant 2 x 32-bit PCI slots, PCI 2.3 compliant
PCB	ATX Form Factor, 12"x 9.6"(30.5cm x 24.4cm)