ECS L7S7A2 SIS746 Mobo Now available @ Newegg!

[Lanyap]

Originally posted by: pigseye2
This MB is now $54 seems like a pretty good deal.

Pigseye

Nice drop in price. Reviews on Newegg are mixed but generally good.

 

[Match]

I bought this motherboard about a week ago and am running my 1700+ at 12x166=2GHz. I'm limited by my cpu right now. The board has small overvolting options for both the cpu and memory, although on my particular board both voltages are low on the "normal" setting. You can adjust the multiplier by jumpers, and the FSB goes from 133-200 in 1MHz increments. I'm quite happy with it for what I paid. The one downside I've found is that you can only measure the vcore, vmem, and cpu temps. You can't measure any of the other voltages or the case temperature. It's just not hardwired into the board.

 

[ThisIsMatt]

Too bad ECS still sucks. Hope you never have to deal with their tech support, who only speak engrish, can't make complete sentences, and ask you questions about things you already answered. Then they'll just refer to you someone else (ie promise for the onboard raid) when they won't admit their motherboard is to blame.

See sig.

 

[ThisIsMatt]

Originally posted by: SCarrier11
does this board support a Athlon 1 GHz chip?

Should work, but there's no cpu heat sensor for it probably...

 

[HappyNic]

I don't know about this one, this board just sux for me,, I ordered 2 boards from newegg. The first one has a nice big heatsink on the northbridge and and nice small one on the southbridge, but some of the mofsets seems to be missing ( lots L7s5a2 are like that) System was not stable , freeze at all fsb setting except 100. RMA it and got another one. This one only has one small heatsink for the northbridge and none for the southbridge, it's missing even more mofsets ( not sure on this) the CNR slots and the boards reranged abit. This one is also unstable and the power just up and down.. I return it for a refund.. and went back with my ECS K75sa for now.
(also , do you notice the only pic you'll see on newegg of this mobo is a small pic and not a normal big one?, well I can tell you that most will not be gettting the one shown in the pic)

 

[weepul]

i got in on the new ECS K7S5A Pro + cpu combo deal @ fry's and it's been running really nicely.

//krunk (^_^x)

 

[Keltron]

Originally posted by: pigseye2
This MB is now $54 seems like a pretty good deal.

Pigseye

Yes it is a good deal for a chep system. Like somebody else mentioned earlier, I wouldn't buy this mobo either. I just dont trust ECS. I'd pay more to get a mobo guaranteed to be stable. Its Abit for me. no one can beat their RMA policy. That makes even a refurb abit mobo a great deal

 

[Keltron]

Originally posted by: mdcrab
If you order this board from Newegg, remember to take advantage of the Biostar Pen here
Biostar Pen Free

mdcrab

how do you get the pen free ? it says $6

 

[Jolt2]

I had this board for about three weeks. There is alot of stuff missing on the board I had. If you update to a newer BIOS, the temps and voltages are then listed but do not read properly. If you try a program like MBM or motherboard probe, the temps and other readouts are jumping all over and the values are not even close. The hardware is missing to do the temp and voltage readings. This was a L7S7A2 with one heat sink on the northbrige chip.

I sent the board back to Newegg for a refund. Besides all the little things that were missing and the missing stuff that was listed in the other posts, the board I had would come up with "Check sum error" when booting. This would happen about 2 to three times a week. When this would happen, I would have to back into the BIOS and set everything back up again. I also found out that ECS does not have a warranty. ECS only warranty is to the end user who bought the product from them directly. Buy the board from Newegg and you get no warranty from ECS.

Once again you get what you pay for. This was my first ECS motherboard and I like the SiS chipsets, but I will not be back for another ECS board.

 

[Praxis]

I just wish some more reputable companies would make Socket A mobos with SiS chipsets. Right now PCCHIPS and its "elite" division ECS is almost the only company with a SiS 746 board (well, there is an Asrock board, but though that is marketed by Asus, I have a sneaking suspicion that it is built by PCCHIPS & Pricewatch mentions an Iwill board, but it is $88; might as well buy an Nforce2).

Edit: Newegg & Z-Buy offer the Asrock version of this board for $58 delivered. For that price I could get a Biostar or Shuttle KT400 board. My guess is that the VIA chipset board would be a better bet for reasons of compatibility alone (anyone set up this 746 board with Linux?)

 

[pigseye2]

You guys are bummin me out. I bought this board a few weeks a go and hoped to use it in my main PC. I'll see how it sets up for ma but if I ahve problem I'll have to RMA it back to newegg. Thanksfully Newegg is one of the best for problem products.

Thanks for the input on this MB
Pigseye

 

[teraeric]

it's wierd to feel like i'm threadcrapping to say that i have one that has all it's parts (at least the ones that i have tried to use so far) and runs fine... the card reader is cool, and it is running fine using a stick of cheap 2700 that i stuck backwards into my xp333 and melted the ram socket with (that's why i got the l7)... running a 1.4 tbird at 1540ish...

i've run through a dozen ecs boards (mostly k7s5a) and only rma'd one (and i think i may have cooked it fooling around with cheepobios)...