Is ECS a good mobo manufacturer

[Ephect]

I saw a mobo/cpu bundle, but am not familiar with ECS and was wondering how they are.

 

[igowerf]

ECS motherboards are generally very stable but not very overclocker friendly. I recently bought an ECS K7S5a myself (I killed it yesterday in a bad bios flash...).

 

[SUOrangeman]

I believe that ECS is the second largest mobo manufacturer in the world. Anyone have a direct quote verifying this statement?

-SUO

 

[ProjectPat]

Yeah they're pretty big but I've heard a few bad things about them from friends.

 

[Shooters]

I've never had any experience using their boards, but I've heard some not so good things about them with the exception of their new Sis 735 mobo.

 

[Zepper]

ECS is really a part of the same comopany that makes PC Chips, Alton and some other brands--all generally regarded as bottom feeders. In my personal experience, PC Chips is the only mobo I've ever seen to have physically blown up voltage regulators, but I have not seen the same on ECS boards...
. However, people seem to love this new SiS 735 based board and it is probably what I will get when I upgrade--only time will tell.
.bh.

 

[LXi]

They shipped the second most motherboards in the first half of 2001, that's pretty much all known about them. They're not even in the top 3 of Taiwan, but not small by any means.