ECS L4S5M???

[nboy22]

I was looking at this mobo for a 1.8 GHZ intel pentium 4 processor. On pricewatch.com, i came across the ECS model L4S5M. I've never heard of ECS and I checked the forums and it did not have any disscussions over this particular mobo. I was wondering, would a ECS model L4S5M work for games very good?? I plan on getting the 1.8 GHZ intel pentium 4 processor as i said before, and I'm getting a GeForce 4 Ti 4200. I'm just wondering if this particular board would be great for games or bad for games and i was also wondering if this has good performance. It will be hooked up with a SiS 650 chipset or a SiS 645 - 950 is that it?? i'm not sure if that's it but it should be a 645 - 900 something chipset. If this is not a very good mobo for gaming and fast performance, could someone please suggest some good mobos at reasonable prices, I also plan on getting 512 mb 2100 DDR RAM at 266 mhz. would a computer with a SiS 650 Chipset, ECS L4S5M, and 512 mb 2100 DDR RAM at 266 mhz Be a very good computer???

 

[mechBgon]

ECS is looked upon as a sort of "economy" brand. If you go to the grocery store and look at macaroni & cheese, there's Kraft and then there's house-brand. ECS is your house-brand mac 'n cheese of the motherboard world. Doesn't mean it won't work well, but they're not necessarily set up the way enthusiasts would prefer (namely, overclocking options).

The SiS chipsets aren't bad but I see a lot of knowlegeable folks going with Intel-brand chipsets on boards by Asus, around here. The P4B533 is a hot one. There are other "Kraft" brands, I'd look at Asus, EPoX, MSI/Microstar and Gigabyte.

If you're getting a Pentium4, make sure it's using the Northwood core instead of the old Williamette core. The Northwoods have 512kb cache, so make sure the one you buy lists that.

Welcome to the Forums You might want to pop over to the CPU/Processors & Overclocking forum to absorb some info over there too.