6600 and POS ECS for 229$

Whoops. That's what I meant to post. Guess I shouldn't post before my morning caffiene
 
Yeah, itd have to be $199 or below for me to consider it but bleh. :p
 
This must be for the E6600. Not the Q6600. Was about to run screaming for joy to Fry's.:p
 
ECS sucks plain and simple. If you want a decent running board at STOCK speeds, ECS might be a decent *cheap* choice. However, the [H] is not somewhere you would likely frequent with such a system..Their boards o/c like crap - thinking back to the S939 boards, something like 240 HTT, when many of the better ones were easily doing high 200's -> low 300's. With that said, I still have a v1.0 K7S5A floating around (unused though) that still works - probably one of their more problematic boards, and I guess I had good luck w/ mine.

...Still a good deal for someone that has an eBay account or something, you could make $40-80 going by current listings. I'm waiting for the quad price drops in July though, my 165 is still doing just fine.
 
ECS sucks plain and simple. If you want a decent running board at STOCK speeds, ECS might be a decent *cheap* choice. However, the [H] is not somewhere you would likely frequent with such a system..Their boards o/c like crap - thinking back to the S939 boards, something like 240 HTT, when many of the better ones were easily doing high 200's -> low 300's. With that said, I still have a v1.0 K7S5A floating around (unused though) that still works - probably one of their more problematic boards, and I guess I had good luck w/ mine.

...Still a good deal for someone that has an eBay account or something, you could make $40-80 going by current listings. I'm waiting for the quad price drops in July though, my 165 is still doing just fine.

If your going to run it stock then ecs is fine. Something you would build a parents system around or maybe upgrade a business machine(although I would stay away from via if possible). Same if you were throwing it in a media center or something where stock would be fine.

Posts like these though make me wish they had Frys around me.
 
ECS is pretty good these days if you want something stock. I have one of these older combo deals with an ECS P4M800PRO-M v2 (and E6400) in it running Gentoo Linux as my main workstation and it's been up for 47 days straight without a glitch. I think the last time I took it down was to upgrade the RAM to 2 GB.

Not much overclocking but this is my development box so I'm not about to overclock it anyway.
 
I think it was $199, but yeah...

actually it was 199 with an old ECS motherboard that was AGP. this new deal is a more recent motherboard with PCI-express and costs little more. I figured I can sell this one easier than selling the 199 agp motherboard, for more as well...
 
ECS sucks plain and simple. If you want a decent running board at STOCK speeds, ECS might be a decent *cheap* choice. However, the [H] is not somewhere you would likely frequent with such a system..Their boards o/c like crap - thinking back to the S939 boards, something like 240 HTT, when many of the better ones were easily doing high 200's -> low 300's. With that said, I still have a v1.0 K7S5A floating around (unused though) that still works - probably one of their more problematic boards, and I guess I had good luck w/ mine.

...Still a good deal for someone that has an eBay account or something, you could make $40-80 going by current listings. I'm waiting for the quad price drops in July though, my 165 is still doing just fine.

the only motherboards ive used are ecs.i personally love them (for the most part). the kn1 extreme i have overclocks quite nicely (nf4)and is rock solid. only 80 $ 2 :D
 
I bought an E300 + ECS mobo for $150 back in November. I've been using it seen and it's been totally stable.

I recently put in 2 gigs of PC6400 RAM but I had to down clock it to 5400 speeds, it doesn't like anything higher.
 
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