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New ECS L7S7A...Sis 746 chipset!

Insane3D

Elite Member
Just saw a picture and some info on this new board over on ocworkbench.com.

Link

Specs

SPECIFICATION:
PROCESSORS
¡ 462 pin Socket A supports AMD K7 processors
? Full series of Athlon XP/ Athlon/ Duron processors.
Chipset
¡ SiS746 & SiS963 Chipset
? SiS963 MuTIOL Media I/O delivered data transfer rate up to 1GB/s
? Integrated USB 2.0 host controller in SiS963
? Integrated IEEE 1394A host controller in SiS963
? AGP v3.0 compliant with 8x transfer mode.
¡ LAN: 10/100Mbps Faster Ethernet (optional)
¡ LPC I/O ? ITE8705F
¡ Sil3112A Serial ATA (optional)
¡ AC97 Audio Codec
? Compliant with AC97 2.2 specification

SYSTEM BIOS
¡ Award 2Mb Flash EEPROM
¡ Supports Plug and Play 1.0A, APM 1.2, Multi Boot, DMI
¡ Full support for ACPI revision 1.0 specification

MEMORY
¡ Three 184-pin DDR DIMM sockets to support
? Three 2.5V DDR SDRAMs (DDR266/333) or
? Two 2.5V DDR SDRAMs (DDR400)
¡ Maximum: 3GB (1GB only for DDR400, conditional)

I/O INTERFACE
¡ Supports Plug and Play function
¡ PS/2 keyboard and PS/2 mouse connectors
¡ One EPP/ECP mode parallel port
¡ Two 16550 high-speed serial I/O ports
¡ Four USB Ports:
? Dual USB Ports and an optional IEEE1394 connector
? Dual USB Ports and an optional LAN connector
¡ Audio Ports (Line-in, Line-out, Mic-in)
¡ Dual PCI IDE interfaces ? support four IDE devices (PIO Mode 4, DMA Mode 2, Ultra DMA 66/100, 133 for SiS963)
¡ Two serial ATA connectors
¡ Support 360K~2.88M Byte, 3 Mode FDDs or LS120
¡ ATX Power Supply Connectors
¡ Ports, headers and others
? IR header (SIR)
? CD-in header (CDIN1 & CDIN2)
? Front Panel MIC/Line-Out Header
? One IEEE 1394 A header (optional)
? Extra USB Header (USB3) for two USB devices
? HDD LED, Reset Switch, Power Switch headers
? CPU, BAK, and CHS Fan headers

RTC & BATTERY
¡ SiS963 built-in 256 byte of CMOS SRAM
¡ With CMOS hardware clear jumper
EXPANSION SLOTS
¡ 5 PCI slots, 1 AGP slot (8X), 1 CNR slot
FORM FACTOR & LAYERS
¡ ATX (305mm*244mm), 4 Layers

Pic

Looks like a worthy replacement for the K7S5A! 🙂
 
ECS's KT400 offer is about $90-95 retail, let see how cheap SIS can go.
a bit weak on sound.... but for low price board... ok, hope it has the OC bios as KT400.
 
being a via appostle I have to admit that the SiS746 & SiS963 Chipset is finally making the big times and is something serious to look at.
 
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