When someone mentions an ECS motherboard, we automatically start thinking of it as a budget board with not many features, average performance and overclocking that competes with the likes of Abit and Epox. Ok, cross that last one out. Overclocking has almost become a standard feature and we have constantly suggested ECS to provide some sort of overclocking in their boards. Looks like the folks in Taiwan were listening as we take a look at their latest offering- the SiS 648 chipset based L4S8A.
CPU:
Socket 478 board that supports Intel® Pentium® 4 processor up to 533MHz FSB
Chipset:
SiS® 648 & SiS® 963 chipset
Memory:
3 DDR DIMM sockets support 3 2.5V DDR SDRAMs (DDR266/DDR200) or 2 2.5V DDR SDRAMs (DDR333) Maximum: 3GB (2GB only for DDR333)
Audio:
AC97 audio codec Compliant with AC97 2.2 specification
IDE/SCSI:
Dual PCI IDE interfaces - support 4 IDE devices (PIO mode 4, DMA mode 2, Ultra DMA 66/100,133 for SiS963) Optional Silcon Image serial ATA RAID controller
I/O Connectors:
2 x PS/2, 2 x Serial, 1 x Parallel, 1 x Media, 6 x USB, 3 x 1394, 1 x RJ-45
Expansion Slots:
1 x AGP, 5 x PCI, 1 x CNR
Additional Features:
Magic Setting USB 2.0 (SiS® 963) IEEE 1394 (optional)
