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ECS Motherboard ReviewDiy-Computer-Repair can help!ECS Motherboard ECS 945G-M3 V3.0 Core 2 Duo MATX Motherboard ECS (Elitegroup Computer Systems) has been manufacturing motherboards and peripherals for some time. Although based in Taiwan, their products are manufactured in China. ECS originally was one of the Premier Gaming PC manufactures but fell on hard times when the gaming boxes went big (XBOX, PS2, etc). I have not owned an ECS product so this is a barebones review. Their motherboards are state of the art, with all the latest innovations you would find on any top of the line motherboards. The ECS motherboards support all the latest processors and have an upgrade path for future processors. One thing that does bother me about most of ECS motherboards are the ram slots, most of them only have two slots for ram, this means that you have to put in more than you currently want or pay for an upgrade at a later time and waste the money that you put in the ram at the start of your project, I would suggest you put a minimum of one gig DDR 2 memory module and leave the other slot open for upgrade at a future time. This board uses PCI-X for the integrated Gigabit LAN and video cards, which is great because it only has two PCI-X slots.
Rating: I am rating this 8 out of 10. An 8 because of the real estate on the board is not used to the full capacity, the board could have one or two more PCI or PCI-x slots, it could also have four slots for ram instead of two. If you want to use the onboard Video you would not want to play games or have a high powered graphics program unless you had the full two gigs of ram because the video shares the ram with the processor, anything less than a gig will cause the system to be a dog. For a everyday business pc this mother board will suffice at a fair price.
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