3200+ for $152 shipped

[Zoron]

ECS is fine.

If you like bulging capacitors...

:tongue:

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[Zoron]

Tell that to my last three customers that came in with defunct motherboards.

:tongue:

I agree that ECS's newer boards are an improvement... but this capacitor deal has left a bad taste in my mouth. I also know ECS wasn't the only company that put out such boards (I've ran across IBM and Giga-Byte boards with the same issue). Most of the boards I've seen until recently have been ECS... but more GigaByte boards are popping up now.

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[endyen]

the motherboard forum had too many "K7S5A problem" threads

True, but most were fixed by putting a decent psu in. Trying to boot a then modern pc with a < 250 watt psu, was just not smart. Then of course there were the people who tried to put SD and DDR into the same board. Not that that forum doesn't still get the odd idiot post, but it's getting fewer cheap idiot posts.

 

[dhlucke]

There were some bad batches in the begining. Mine was flawless though. There were a lot of people that were trying to run that board with a PSU that couldn't handle it. I got a 400W Antec to run that board which was fine but others were trying to do the same with 250W or 300W generic PSU's and it was just not working.



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[endyen]

What really impressed me with the board, was the single chip chipset. I found that palomino cores ran about 5c cooler, than on any other mobo. Some of the alternate bios were also very nice.

 

[o1die]

I would never recommend ecs for beginners. They should go with Intel or Dell. Has a certain ring to it.