ECS’ Black Edition motherboards give a reasonably high end motherboard factor with a price that is extremely affordable. Its certainly a step-up from their usual low-priced motherboards and  today we look at their recently launched Intel P45 chipset solution modeled as the P45T-A Black Edition.

Features

•    Intel Core 2 Quad &  Core2 Extreme Support
•    FSB 1333 Support
•    Dual Channel DDR2 800
•    eSATA
•    RAID 0, 1, 5, 10
•    SATAII 3.0Gb/s
•    Gigabit LAN
•    8 Channel High Definition Audio
•    PCI EXPRESS 2.0
•    M.I.B: Motherboard Intelligent BIOS
•    Certified For Windows Vista
•    ATI CrossFire X

Packaging

There isn’t much to the packaging of the P45T-A with ECS bundling it in a nice looking but standard sized box featuring a Blue Dragon. Inside, you can find the drivers CD and user manual, 4x SATA cables, IDE Cable and I/O back panel shield.