ECS K7S5A

[jza734]

ECS, like any other cheapie mobo - you get what ou pay for. When your boss wants to meet a certain price point, they don't care if it was assembled by 5 year olds in taiwan or not. Actually the biggest problem with the ecs boards we use (K7EM) is: when loading windows xp, you need extremely reliable ram to get the setup to complete. I usually get many bsod's during setup with cheap ram, install some crucial ram, no problemo.

I think i'll stick with asus.

[ephmynus]

I've heard this is actually a pretty stable board but I have not used it. Heads up for everyone, Outpost.com/Fry's currently has this packaged with a 1ghz duron for only $79. Check it out.
<a href="http://shop1.outpost.com/product/3190650" target="_blank">http://shop1.outpost.com/product/3190650</a>

[Ferris]

i have to praise my ECS K7S5A Mobo, due to the fact i have not had one single BSOD hardware related crash on XP Pro since i started using the mobo a month ago.

i had an MSI 6330 mobo before which recently went tits up, it worked great under 98, but really gave me grief under XP Pro. '

Windows XP Pro (dual boot)
Windows 98 SE
384mb SD Ram
1.2ghz Athlon Thunderbird
ECS K7S5A Mobo
Creative GeForce 2Mx 32mb AGP
20gig Seagate HD
10gig Western Digital HD
Soundblaster PCI 128
Creative x6 DVD Rom
LG 16x10x40 CD-RW

[Rifleman @ Layman's PC]

Condor,

I am the only full fledged tech in this little town of 50000 people and I build at least 20 machines a month.

9 out of every ten has an ECS board
You wanna see results
<a href="http://service.madonion.com/compare?2k1=3196989" target="_blank">http://service.madonion.com/compare?2k1=3196989</a>
compare it to any like system, exact CPU or Approx. CPU.

As far as stability and reliability, I spend more time working on Compaqs Dells and Gateways than anything I build (9 times out of ten if I get one of mine back in it is for an upgrade/add-on). On any P3 or P4 system they get the Sis chipset and DDR. I have heard that Sis gives ECS extra help and advantages in producing boards with their chipsets.

I would advise ANY of the "do-it-yourself" types, or system builders alike to use an ECS board. The only thing that is even a remote drawback is the lack of O/Cing capabilities, but for a system builder who has to provide a warranty that isn't a bad thing.

[Rifleman @ Layman's PC]

Oh yeah, in the past 10 months I've been using ECS, I've sold 221 of their Mobo's.
I've had to RMA 3 of them for problems.

Not a bad track record.

[condor]

Actually I couldn't get that usb cam to work properly.

I tried it on my KT333 mobo and it works fine.

I think I will RMA it and get an Intel or Logitech webcam see if that would work..

[vapd]

I'm small fry compared to most of you but aside from day job I've built about 10 PC's around this mobo. And I'm useing one as my mane pc now that I did a build on an Asus A7M and had to replace with my own KG7 after it went bad :-( then I bought an Asus 333 mobo and that was D.O.A.

I have not had one prob with ecs boards, yeah they dont o/c but as some other guy said: who wants that when your building for users who dont understand whta fsb means.....

I use em for all budget builds but really try and convince folks who want high spec pc's to go with asus/abit/epox/msi,

personally I only want to use Asus or Abit.