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Friday, August 12, 2005
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In the first salvo we find the ECS KN1 Extreme nForce 4 Ultra motherboard, a concise example of how far ECS is willing to go to win over consumers. Hardware features on the socket 939 AMD Athlon64 ECS KN1 Extreme include an additional Serial ATA/IDE RAID controller, IEEE 1394a, a 5.1 channel audio codec and two network cards (one Gigabit, one 10/100). To top things off, ECS also throws in a decent software bundle and a little I/O slot exhaust fan. The board itself is based on the nVidia nForce 4 Ultra chipset, which means that one PCI Express x16 videocard is supported, but not SLI. Expansion comes care of the three PCI slots, and two PCI Express x1 sockets...
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Monday, July 11, 2005
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ECS KN1 Extreme feels like a product unsure of its place in the market. It offers more than what you'd expect from the average board at a price that you just can't beat. On the flip side of that, since price appears to have been a main focus of its design, there are areas that are lacking in what one would expect form an enthusiast grade product. With a little bit more time spent back at the drawing board, ECS can smooth out some of the rough edges of the KN1 Extreme and transform it into a star...
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