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Ecs Owns U

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Seongmin

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Well, I put in an ECS PT880 and noticed that there was no PCI/AGP lock so I threw in the old 848P-A. While shopping around, I went out to my local CC and purchased 2 new sticks of Kingston PC2700 (which are Hynix D43) and installed everything. Now came the hard part. I went into Bios, locked the PCI/AGP at a constant 33/66 and raised the fsb to 155. Boot into windows and did a few benchmarks perfectly. Bumped it up to 160... Crap. Nothing. So I was using the computer at 2.79 gigs until I dled CPUZ and noticed that the dividers were set to 4:5. The ram was at 20x FSB while the CPU was only at 155 (more or less). Hmm, went into bios and there was no option for a divider but something that I did notice was that the ram was at auto... I changed it to PC2100 (133) and went back into windows and guess what, CPUZ REPORTED 1:1!! WOOHOO. Went into Bios, changed the FSB to 180 and went right into windows. 190, booted fine. 200, nothing... so I dropped it to 195 and man, I'm running stable. 100% CPU usage (burn in software) and it was running like a dream.. I'll be trying to get to 200 soon and I'll probably be the first to get a 1.2 gig o/c on my celeron D using an ECS mobo... BTW, the ram cost me 42$ each with a 20$ rebate. Just thought I'd share my story and would like to say that for all you ECS haters, ECS actually did a 180 degree turn and has actually made a quality motherboard.
 
it may be true, but remember statistics... It's not what 1 board can do, but what a majority of boards can do... MOST ECS boards suck bfdd... And I'd be interested to see if your ECS board even works in 6 months.

Please don't claim that it out-performs an asus/abit/msi, either.
 
Go buy five ECS mainboards. Of those five, tell me how many needed to be RMA'd out of the bunch?

ECS is like FIC, they make crappy, generic mainboards that often times have out-of-the-box issues. They are cheap for a reason, man.

On the other hand, I am happy you got a good mobo that you like. Just wouldn't put all my eggs in the ECS basket if I were you.
 
lol, I know that it probably won't last long but for the time being, its running great. I know that ECS sucks, I just thought that it would be fun to show that some ECS can run well. This is for my budget system btw so its running just a 9600 pro, 512 ram, and a 80 gig hd xP. Its an ok computer but yea, like one of you guys said, I don't have my eggs in the ECS basket, but I am glad that I have one of the only ecs boards that work!
 
actually ECS has done a nice turn with fairly quality mobos, I have bought a couple combos at fry's with the ecs 848p-a, one was with prescott 2.4A which runs as high as 3.94 ghz on the ECS board prime stable 3.7 ghz, and one with the 2.4 ghz celeron D which is prime stable at 3.5 ghz (up to 3.6 ghz maybe more didn't try further), both are stock cooling default voltage (no voltage adjustment darnit), but the rev 2 ECS board came with nice IDE cables and SATA cable. I also tried OCing the 2.4A with both an abit IC7 and an MSI board can't remember which (it had the 865 chipset) and neither came close to the same OC.
 
Not every ECS mainboard is problematic...but a good percentage of ECS caters to the low bidders. Some models are just meant to be cheap. Others are decent designs with horrible quality control, usually again due to their intention to sell to low-end market (The ECS K7S5A is a good example, a good mainboard ruined by horrible quality control). After having several with problems, I stopped purchasing them for PC builds; the RMA rate is just too high.

If you get lucky, great. But I'd rather get a board I know will be working just as well at the time I sell it as it did at the time I bought it. I'm not an ECS hater...I'm a hater of poor quality control, and cheap design.
 
I agree, however, I'm running the ECS only because I got it free... (ECS combos are great :p ). Just thought I would give it a try and it put my Deleron to 3.51 stable xP. I was just happy that I didn't have to buy another mobo like you other "losers." :eek:
 
IdentityFaux said:
Go buy five ECS mainboards. Of those five, tell me how many needed to be RMA'd out of the bunch?
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Zero, on average for me. I've bought about 50 various ECS boards over the last few years and only one was DOA. One died after several months and one was flaky (K7S5A) with CMOS settings getting wiped out at random.

I've had a much worse record with Asus, which tend to be flaky 80% of the time. I still buy ECS boards, but I won't touch Asus anymore.
 
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HAHA, the name of my colllege is Eastern connecticut state university (ECSU)

just take out the Ownes part and you get ECSU

wow, i really need to get some sleep... or less crack... or maybe both
 
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