ECS Cross-Fire board @ NewEgg - $119 IN STOCK!

[Agent11]

Originally posted by: Megatomic

Originally posted by: jlbenedict
those ECS boards are definately ugly

They are infinitely better looking than the DFI garbage people are buying lately. :roll:

Heyy, I think the DFI crossfire board is sexy.. black and yellow isn't a bad combo.
edit: and that DFI garbage looks to overclock like a madman.

 

[o1die]

My current ecs kv2 lite claims to use premium caps. It came with a pretty box and ugly red white blue yellow color scheme. But only time will tell if it's reliable. I've communicated to ecs tech support several times about cool and quiet not working with win2k. It works fine with xp. They don't have a solution. But at least they answered my email quickly.

 

[imported_fatal]

I would steer clear of ECS boarbs...have had poor quality in the past.. Get an ASUS, Gigabyte

 

[justly]

Originally posted by: Tanclearas
Well, I have had personal experience with four separate K7S5A boards, purchased at different times, and even one from a different vendor. All four remained rock-solid, and I know for a fact that two of them are still going. The other two were sold off as complete systems, and I don't know how they're doing, but I know they ran for 2+ years without any problems.

The K7S5A didn't offer many of the features found on more expensive boards, and BIOS options were very limited, but they were not poor quality.

Two words for many of the people reporting problems: user error.

I think way too many people bought the board because it was cheap, and probably bought cheap RAM, cheap power supplies, cheap cases that made it difficult to mount the board properly, and OEM CPU's with cheap HSF's. Here's a shocking revelation; if you cheap out on every piece of equipment, something will fail.

I have no problems with ECS, but don't try to build the world's cheapest (read: crappiest) system with it.

Two K7S5As here one as a backup the other still in use 24/7...no problems...none, not even a swelled cap.

And I couldn't agree more about people using crap parts with this board and then being surprized that somthing failed.

 

[DetroitSportsFan]

Originally posted by: justly

Originally posted by: Tanclearas
Well, I have had personal experience with four separate K7S5A boards, purchased at different times, and even one from a different vendor. All four remained rock-solid, and I know for a fact that two of them are still going. The other two were sold off as complete systems, and I don't know how they're doing, but I know they ran for 2+ years without any problems.

The K7S5A didn't offer many of the features found on more expensive boards, and BIOS options were very limited, but they were not poor quality.

Two words for many of the people reporting problems: user error.

I think way too many people bought the board because it was cheap, and probably bought cheap RAM, cheap power supplies, cheap cases that made it difficult to mount the board properly, and OEM CPU's with cheap HSF's. Here's a shocking revelation; if you cheap out on every piece of equipment, something will fail.

I have no problems with ECS, but don't try to build the world's cheapest (read: crappiest) system with it.

Two K7S5As here one as a backup the other still in use 24/7...no problems...none, not even a swelled cap.

And I couldn't agree more about people using crap parts with this board and then being surprized that somthing failed.

I've run a couple of those k7s5a's too ... Never a problem! A good stable board for your basic computer.

 

[Megatomic]

Originally posted by: Agent11

Originally posted by: Megatomic

Originally posted by: jlbenedict
those ECS boards are definately ugly

They are infinitely better looking than the DFI garbage people are buying lately. :roll:

Heyy, I think the DFI crossfire board is sexy.. black and yellow isn't a bad combo.
edit: and that DFI garbage looks to overclock like a madman.

I'm not into the bling PC scene. No side windows, no LEDs, no cold cathodes. That's all fluff, just like the UV reactive crap that DFI sends with those boards. And I lost all trust in DFI back in the NF2 days. Their QC was horrid and I refuse to take my chances with them again in the futre.

 

[grooge]

Usually, budget motherboard, like ECS will be used with rather cheap PSU and case, while higher end board users, paying 100$ and more for one motherboard would likely spend more $$ on better case and PSU.