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Wednesday, August 3, 2005
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In summary, the ECS RS400-A turned out to be a middling board. Its greatest highlight is backward compatibility with older graphics and memory technology that promotes reuse of existing parts. With DDR, DDR2, AGP Express, PCI Express, SATA, RAID and built-in graphics, the list sure seems impressive and we do not doubt that the board would fit in nicely in an entry-level market. Sadly, this is where the board firmly stays and though it is flexible by nature, board layout was left wanting and performance was hampered no thanks to ATI's Xpress 200 chipset for Intel processors. Despite it all, the US$82 price for the RS400-A seems to compensate for most its shortcomings...
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Wednesday, May 11, 2005
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The ECS RS400-A is an excellent entry level motherboard, and while we were not able to track down a price, we're sure that the motherboard will be affordable - a hallmark of ECS. The list of extras is pretty short; a 10/100 NIC, 5.1 channel AC'97 audio, onboard video, and that's about it. Should you need to upgrade, the motherboard has two PCI Express x1 slots, the AGP Express slot and the PCI Express x16 slot, as well as two traditional 32 bit PCI slots...
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