K7S5A CLONE?

[gcy]

FOUND THIS AMPTRON M/B WITH SiS 735 CHIPSET
SiS735 Chipset Supports AMD Duron / Athlon processors Product Information
K7-830LM Mainboard

Supports 266/200MHz Front-Side Bus
DDR266 SDRAM support
Supports up to 1GB of main memory
Provides a AGP 4X graphics port
AMR slot for modem module
Embedded SiS 900 LAN chip support 10BaseT /100BaseTX Ethernet LAN
Built-in hardware monitoring IC
Onboard 18bit sound compliant AC97 2.1 specification
2MB AMI modular BIOS Flash ROM, Automatic CPU and board configuration.
Provides ATX power connector and support for ATX power management features including Suspend switch, Wake on Modem, Wake on LAN, Wake on Alarm, Keyboard
Power On/Off

Product Specifications

Main Chipset:
SiS 735 chipset
Supports AMD Athlon / Duron processors
Supports Athlon processors: 650MHz~1.4GHz @ 266/200 FSB
Supports Duron processors: 550~950MHz @ 200 FSB

Memory:
2 DDR DIMM Sockets and 2 DIMM sockets support (CAN NOT be used at the same time)
Two 184-pin 2.5V DDR* (Double Date Rate) SDRAM (DDR266/DDR200) or
Two 168-pin 3.3V SDRAM (PC133/PC100)
Maximum installed memory is 1GB
* DDR SDRAM provides 800MBps or 1 GBps data transfer depending on whether the bus is 100MHz or 133MHz. It doubles the rate to 1.6 GBps and 2.1 GBps by transferring data on both the rising and falling edges of the clock. DDR SDRAM uses additional power and ground lines and requires 184-pin 2.5V unbuffered DIMM module rather than the 168-pin 3.3V unbuffered DIMMs used by SDRAM. * DDR DIMM Manufacture List

Expansion Slots:
One AMR slot for a special Audio Modem Riser card
One AGP 2.0 compliant 4X AGP slot
Five 32-bit PCI slots for PCI 2.2 compliant bus interface

Enhanced IDE Controller:
Primary and Secondary IDE channels
Supports PIO (programmable input/output) modes 0 - 4
Supports Multiword DMA modes
Supports UltraDMA 33/66/100 and BUS mastering

SiS900 LAN chip:
Support embedded 10 BaseT/100BaseTX Ethernet LAN, Compliant w/ ACPI 1.0 and NDCPM 1.0

AMR Slot:
Audio Modem Riser slot supports 56K V.90 HSP AMR FAX/Modem module

Power Supply and Power Management:
ATX power connector
ACPI and legacy PMU support
Supports Suspend switch, keyboard power on/off
Supports Wake on LAN, Wake on Ring, and Wake on Alarm

Onboard Sound System:
SiS 7012 chipset
AC97 2.1 specification compliant
Support 18-bit ADC (Analog Digital Converter) and DAC (Digital analog Converter) as well as 18-bit stereo full-duplex codec

Onboard I/O Ports:
Provides PC'99 color-coded connectors for easy peripheral connection
Floppy disk controller with 1Mb/s transfer rate
Two 16550 UART fast serial ports
One EPP and ECP parallel port
Two USB ports and two additional USB ports on an optional module
PS/2 keyboard and mouse ports
One infrared port on the optional module

Hardware Monitoring:
Built-in hardware monitoring for CPU & system temperature, fan speeds and main board voltages

Onboard Flash ROM (BIOS):
AMI 2MB BIOS flash ROM
Automatic CPU and board configuration
Supports Plug and Play configuration of peripheral devices and expansion cards
Built-in virus protection using Trend's Chip Away Virus provides boot process virus protection

Dimensions:
ATX form factor 12" x 8.5" (30.5cm x 24.4cm)

Package Contents:
K7-830LM Mainboard
User's Manual
1 UDMA/66 IDE Cable
1 Floppy disk drive cable

 

[HansXP]

Amptron, PC Chips and ECS all sell the same basic board.

 

[PUNKtotalled]

TRUE! Amptron=ECS=PCchips

 

[Nessism]

Maybe someone more knowledgable can chime in here...but I read that while these companies are under the same parent company umbrela, they have their own manufacturing sites, in come cases, in different countries!

 

[gcy]

The Ampron is going for $79 and I know that newegg is selling the ECS for $65. I wonder if there is a quality issue.

 

[Peter]

PC-Chips group of companies assimilated ECS a couple of years ago, and now it's different brands of the same pool of R&D and manufacturing forces.

The PC-Chips brand is about pure OEM business. No end user support, no retail packs, just boards'n'BIOSes. ECS, while still focussing on making cost-effective boards with zero funny bits, lean a little to the end user business.

Amptron in turn has traditionally been a retailer of PC-Chips stuff, with their own boxes, bundles and support. Now that PC-Chips and ECS are one, they gradually seem to switch over to selling ECS boxes as is.

Quality differences from M830LR to K7S5A? That's unlikely. Two reasons. (1) The cheapest way of running several production lines for the same thing is to keep them all exactly identical, from component purchasing down to test equipment and procedures. (2) "Quality binning" subtly defective units for sale on your own "low cost" sub-brand is something you certainly won't get away with if this sub-brand is serving your highest volume customers. That's bankrupcy in five seconds.

regards, Peter

 

[goraj]

I have been using PCChips 830LRM with WIn2k and win 98, which has onboard audio,LAN and modem so far no problems, But i have not tried to update the bios or AGP drivers or IDE drivers. I need to check the Ultra DMA thing did not have the time I will check it tonight.

 

[bozo1]

While pcChips = ECS, the pcChips boards usually throw in things like the AMR riser card and sometimes the backplate for the 2 additional USB ports, etc., while ECS usually just gives you the board.