WHERE DO I FIND ECS NFORCE4-A754

[phenderson]

you can easily find the 939 varriant, but the 754 variant (WHICH DOES HAVE PCI EXPRESS) are impossible to find on US shores.
Anyone know where I can go to get one of these?

 

[phenderson]

suscribe to topic bump!!!

 

[filterxg]

I'm waiting on the same thing (at a decent price). Asus, MSI, and ECS each comitted to making one, and I think the Asus will be the first to the market. I don't know the model number off hand, but ZipZoomfly has made a backorder page, which I think means they have placed the order and are awaiting delivery. Oh its not cheap at all, $160 if I remember right.

 

[phenderson]

well, Like I had mentioned in my first post, you can get the ECS from a store in Europe, but it looks like it cost 53 pounds or euro's. If it is euro's I know that translates to $90.00 American dollars.
Crude... anyone want a nice Asus k8v Se deluxe mb and Athlon 64- 3200?

 

[SAMSAMHA]

I was just browsing on newegg and found that it carries the mobo:
http://www.newegg.com/app/viewProductDesc.asp?description=13-135-190&depa=0

 

[phenderson]

AWESOME Dude... They must have just started carrying that MB.
I know I looked on Pricewatch and a did a search...and I could not find it anywhere

 

[GuitarDaddy]

Wow this would make a very nice budget NF4 system, if overclocking is not your thing!

I have had good luck with ECS boards in the past. They are very good at no frills rock solid basic boards.

When building the next friends/family system, I will definately look at this or the 939 flavor

 

[ajac]

guess newegg pulled it from thier site its not listed no more ugg

 

[CALIKUSH]

Looks like it is back in stock at Newegg.

Link

A little over 70 bucks, not a bad price. A socket 754 sempron 2600+, coupled with a pcie radeon x300 or geforce 6200 would be a good cheap viable solution.

 

[ajac]

I think I am gonna get it and put my 64 chip in it and a video card will hold me till I feel like spurging on a 939 system.

 

[CALIKUSH]

that sounds like a good idea ajac. If you get it, please post impressions.

 

[phenderson]

ajac did you order one?
Cuz I am going to order one tommorrow.

 

[ajac]

nope gonna next week though. So I can get my pci express card at the sametime

 

[phenderson]

I went ahead and ordered one, I should get it by the end of the week.
YAHHHHHHH
get to use my nice PCI-E ATI x800xt VIVO...
YESSSSSS

 

[BlindBartimaeus]

In the description it says it is dual channel but I don't think that is correct, but it is possible and I did hear Epox is going to make one.

 

[CALIKUSH]

So phenderson, did you get your's yet? If so how are the options and what drivers did it ship with?

 

[phenderson]

what a weekkkk, mannnnn, been without my CSS for over a week now.
I got the board on Wednesday. Took me 40 quick minutes to swap everything out. Then I popped in my nice new $340.00 BBA x800xt PCI-Express card. Powered up the PC and immediatley got a constant beeping noise... To my complete and utter dismay, the screen displayed the famous ATI "Video card not plugged into power supply" message. So I pulled the card out, looking for the 4-pin female molex port... OUT OF LUCK CHUCK was my name... Instead of the standard (AGP) 4-pin molex, there was now a 6-pin BTX connector. So I spent 2-3 hours searching for a BTX power supply. BTX powersupplies were no cheaper than $50.00 for a cheap one, and then $60.00 for a more expensive one.

So I began looking for a BTX-6-pin to molex 4 pin, or even 12V ATX pin adapter.
Found one had it shipped over night from PC Connects. GOt it today. Ran home on my lunch break popped in the cable. VOILA, MB is up and running without a problem.
Had to do a Windows OS repair

Pros:

-MB is working. ECS might have came a longgggg way from those crap shoot k75sa's
-NFORCE 4 what more can you say. S754 with PCI Express, WOW, that is all I needed to say.


Cons:

-No 1394 firewire of any kind...
-drivers installed just fine, with a few hiccups from the Network drivers...

I have only played around with it for an hour (Back at work now). But I will leave more if any one wants to know more...

 

[CALIKUSH]

Interesting. I'm glad everything worked out for you. Thanks for replying. I might get one when I get some money.

 

[ajac]

looks like thier out of them again newegg not showing them on thier site no more

 

[ajac]

wish I ordered one when they were available now

 

[CALIKUSH]

Looks like newegg still is out of the ecs a754. However I noticed that ajump has the asus k8ne in stock. To my knowledge, this is the only other socket 754 pci-e board that is available for purchase in the US. I've included the link below.


Link

 

[rondertaker]

i'd be wary about getting the ECS board (which appears to be back at newegg again) if your video card doesnt have external power connectors. either i have a bad 6600gt, a bad mb, or this model of mb cant drive pci express cards properly (all three are possible i suppose, i'm waiting on an RMA for the card now to try and rule that one out)

i would be especially wary about getting this because if the mb is the problem, you can't RMA it to newegg (as per this note "This item is warranted through the product manufacturer only.") and i have no idea what kind of response you'll get from ECS on this.

edit: the Asus K8N4 is at newegg now: http://www.newegg.com/app/viewproductde...33&CMP=OTC-pr1c3watch&ATT=Motherboards

i'm more inclined to trust that it will meet pci express power spec than the ECS but i'm not basing that on any solid information.

 

[Peter]

Such warranty disclaimers cannot exclude basic consumers' rights. The retailer is still just as responsible for selling you something that works, still their duty to take it back if it doesn't. If something breaks later, then it's a warranty case.

 

[rondertaker]

turns out it was the xfx card. replaced it with a bfg 6600gt and all is well.

 

[CALIKUSH]

Glad to hear that it worked out for you. Maybe ECS ain't so bad afterall. By the way there are now 3 socket 754 pci-e motherboards to choose from. Soletk also has a Via k8T890 754 board available now, Newegg is selling it for $102. The choices are growing everyday.




Soltek K890-754G