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ECS Elitegroup? Any good

for a stock system ecs boards are fine..you will read some posts that some people just literally hate them..ecs is a large company and make massive amounts of boards for many different companies...
as far as bios updates there slow, rma's can be a pain...
ive used them over the years every so often and ive never had a board failure but these were used for low budget builds, bone stock...the black series is suppose to be a better quality board tho...
if i were you id use that board making sure you use a good power supply and have a decent amount of airflow through the case...it looks to be a decent board...just be aware that if it does fail rma's are tough to deal with...
just remember there are people who will rant about how awful they are, but alot of it is overblown..
most of the time there just fine for a stock build...ps i too do like that board...and if i was building what you are building and it fit what features i needed id use it in a heartbeat....also since 1996 ive probubly used 20 ecs boards and ive never had a board failure...use them in a highline or high mid line system for overclocking and you looking for trouble...
 
Going back a few year their products were heavily aimed for value/low-cost and as we all know this doesn't need to turn out great all the time. Some products such as the ECS K7S5A were great when they actually worked (failure rate was well above average AFAIK) and gained quite good support due to sales while other models received very little interest in terms of support and build quality was quite poor in general. Nowdays ECS seems to aim for at least mid-range in some cases but given that their market share (their own brand that is) is well below Asus, MSI, Gigabyte etc and you'll probably find little feedback in general. Reviews are in general favorably but I would be a bit concerned regarding long term support and reliability in the long run. Is there a reason why you cant go with the Intel mobo (H67 or Q67) which offers you a much better network controller than the ECS mobo and purchase a additional NIC (which still would be cheaper than the ECS mobo)?

//Danne
 
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Last ECS board i had was a socket 939 KN1 Extreme, and i never really had any problems with it, it was a pretty solid board feature set wise too. It was their attempt at high end hardware in a mid range price bracket and i think they did a pretty good job with it.

However, as for their current offerings, i dont have any experience.
 
Thanks for the input, it does have the unique features I want to use, I'll give it a try
 
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