Hey all

I'm thinking of buying a new mobo to cheaply but sufficiently replace one of my old mobo's: K7SOM+V7.5C



To this: ECS 915-A (1.2A)





And this case: Thermaltake XC3000BWS






All advice, comments, tips, other suggestions would be much appreciated !

eh wait a minute, the small picture is the new one right? for a second there i thought u're going to change into the big picture motherboard lol.

that seems like a really cool board. didn't read the review though. but what're you going to do with an AGP and PCIE slot? i thought u only need one?

my intel D101G motherboard... stinks. only 2 ram slots and 1 PCIE + 1PCIEx1 slot. lol. aih so expensive to change. how much are you buying that board for?

Nice board. Plenty of expansion potential. Having PCI-E x16 and AGP on the same board is only to give upgraders the option to buy the board without having to replace their existing AGP graphics card. Two PCI-E x1 and two PCI slots give plenty of options for other things as well. SATA and IDE. 4 DDR slots. On-board sound. Looks good to me.

I've never used an ECS board though and don't know how well-rated they are. I personally prefer Gigabyte boards - very reliable, very over-clockable (if that's your thing), clear installation/setup instructions and a reasonable price. Of course, that was about 5 years ago but I'm assuming they're still the same!

Originally Posted by Kaistar

eh wait a minute, the small picture is the new one right? for a second there i thought u're going to change into the big picture motherboard lol.

Yes

that seems like a really cool board. didn't read the review though. but what're you going to do with an AGP and PCIE slot? i thought u only need one?

Thanks. Yeah it looks good to me literally and technically. I'm getting a Blue Ray Recorder drive soon and would have to figure how where to attach that aswell. x8 takes AGP and I have them spare. PCIe x16 and PCI slots can be used for many other purposes connecting peripherals basically.

my intel D101G motherboard... stinks. only 2 ram slots and 1 PCIE + 1PCIEx1 slot. lol. aih so expensive to change. how much are you buying that board for?

$80 which is working out as £41 and 289 MYR

Originally Posted by DJNafey

Nice board. Plenty of expansion potential. Having PCI-E x16 and AGP on the same board is only to give upgraders the option to buy the board without having to replace their existing AGP graphics card. Two PCI-E x1 and two PCI slots give plenty of options for other things as well. SATA and IDE. 4 DDR slots. On-board sound. Looks good to me.

Thanks. What I was really after was a micro ATX with these features. Normally ECS makes good microATX boards that last. I've overlocked a K7SOM+v7.5C which comes with an AMD Duron Morgon 1300MHz soldered chipset, to 1500MHz without any problems. They take High Density and Low Density RAM perfectly and each slot accepts 1GB.

It stinks at the fact that there's only ONE IDE

I've never used an ECS board though and don't know how well-rated they are. I personally prefer Gigabyte boards - very reliable, very over-clockable (if that's your thing), clear installation/setup instructions and a reasonable price. Of course, that was about 5 years ago but I'm assuming they're still the same!

I don't know, but I don;t think they're rated well by experts, techno's, overlockers and gamers. They work perfectly for me, even the instructions and manuals are simple. A Gigabyte board I saw, as a possibility is this: http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/Support/M...ProductID=1796

Looked good to me but not as clean with a few bits I'd like missing.

Thanks for the feedback. Its always good to have some reassurance

What would you say about this mobo guys: GIGABYTE GA-965P-DS3 Socket T (LGA 775) Intel P965 Express ATX Intel




Gigabyte and it seems awsome to me. Although its nearly double the price I'm paying for the ECS.

aww man... the gigabyte is just soooo cool! however, i don't think you should worry about your ECS board's single IDE, as you can get SATA anyways. it's faster i believe?

RM289... damn that's cheap. i got my motherboard during may for.. about rm300-rm400

Originally Posted by Kaistar

aww man... the gigabyte is just soooo cool! however, i don't think you should [size=3]worry about your ECS board's single IDE, as you can get SATA anyways. it's faster i believe?

Yup. With UDMA6 i.e. ATA133 with the 80 wire ribbon cables, the fastest transfer is 133MB/s. With Serial ATA it begins at 150MB/s and SATA II is at 300MB/s

Now you see the difference quite clearly. I wanted IDE's for other external HDD's I have to link on, even as backup, on top of my BRD, DVD, and CD drives. One is a little limiting to me although its obvious they're trying to move the market towards total SATA ownership.

RM289... damn that's cheap. i got my motherboard during may for.. about rm300-rm400

Haha, now you see why I want to buy it so much

Thanks.

Why do you want 3 optical drives? Get yourself a SATA Blue Ray drive and then that would leave the single ATA133 port for your hard disk and DVD drive. External hard disks won't be able to use a second IDE connector inside the PC anyway - you'll be wanting USB 2.0 ports for those.

Originally Posted by DJNafey

Why do you want 3 optical drives? Get yourself a SATA Blue Ray drive and then that would leave the single ATA133 port for your hard disk and DVD drive. External hard disks won't be able to use a second IDE connector inside the PC anyway - you'll be wanting USB 2.0 ports for those.

Thanks DJ

Well the drive I'm getting is a LG Blu-Ray Recorder drive. Now I don't know if they have the recorders with SATA connections.... although obviously an adapter for changing them can be found.

The problem with my USB 2.0 connections is, all of them are used up already. which means I'd need at least 3 more.

get a USB hub! that's what i'm doing. lol.