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carguydc - Posted 8:53 am PDT 09/18/09 (553 Posts)
Reviews are somewhat sketchy on this one. Failures, no floppy drive connection, power supply compatibility. I am in the market but I'll pass on this one.
#2
dave_c - Posted 9:38 pm PDT 09/18/09 (7529 Posts)
It's Newegg, if it doesn't work out just RMA and you're out $5 to return ship it. It isn't a very well endowed board though, minimal CPU VRM so it wouldn't be good to o'c or use CPUs rated for more than 65W even if they claim something a bit higher like 95W.
Some of the reviewers are pathetic though, whining ECS doesn't have a driver when they should've gotten those from ATI/AMD as they always should with a mobo. Drivers do work in baconut reviewer forgot or didn't know to make a floppy which in this case means USB flash drive in floppy emulation mode to be assigned a drive letter A:.
Didn't work with Apevia PSU, wrote one reviewer. The genius doesn't know to use a decent PSU then comments on the crappy motherboard. LOL.
It is a junky board but if you only need a basic office box it'll do that ok, though personally even for office boxes I'd much sooner suggest spending a bit more on something like an Asus M3N78-VM, which is all around better except for a couple frames a second difference on 3D games that neither are fast enough to play well. Then again it's the lower clocked IGP version, with headroom to clock higher in the bios.
Some of the reviewers are pathetic though, whining ECS doesn't have a driver when they should've gotten those from ATI/AMD as they always should with a mobo. Drivers do work in baconut reviewer forgot or didn't know to make a floppy which in this case means USB flash drive in floppy emulation mode to be assigned a drive letter A:.
Didn't work with Apevia PSU, wrote one reviewer. The genius doesn't know to use a decent PSU then comments on the crappy motherboard. LOL.
It is a junky board but if you only need a basic office box it'll do that ok, though personally even for office boxes I'd much sooner suggest spending a bit more on something like an Asus M3N78-VM, which is all around better except for a couple frames a second difference on 3D games that neither are fast enough to play well. Then again it's the lower clocked IGP version, with headroom to clock higher in the bios.
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