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Computex 2003 - Day 2: Motherboard and Video Coverage

 by Evan Lieb on September 23, 2003 11:34 AM EST
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ECS had lots of intriguing points to touch on in their meeting room at Computex. We sat down and had breakfast with some of ECS’ marketing and multimedia team and learned quite a bit about ECS.

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The motherboard shown above is ECS’ SiS 655FX motherboard. We just released a review of Gigabyte’s SiS 655FX motherboard, and will probably be taking an in depth look at the ECS version soon. However, as you may have noticed while reading through our Gigabyte 8S655FX article, we found that the SiS 655FX chipset has problems with high FSB overclocks. Apparently, SiS has corrected the problem with a chipset called the SiS 655TX. In fact, we were told that SiS is so happy with the way 655TX is progressing that they expect it to not only outperform motherboards based on Intel’s 875P chipset, but also overclock better. If true, and taking into consideration the price/performance of SiS chipset-based motherboards, we are anticipating this product with bated breath.

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Moving on, we see yet another motherboard manufacturer proudly show off their Athlon 64 motherboards. ECS, unlike ASUS, is going to concentrate solely on VIA’s Athlon 64 K8T800 chipset in the Socket 754 single channel DDR variety. This isn’t very surprising given ECS’ close ties with VIA and their almost complete lack of support for anything NVIDIA.

Anyway, ECS’ product positioning for their Athlon 64 motherboards will be in the form of their “Photon” high-end series of products, with various mainstream Athlon 64 motherboards to be introduced next year when Socket 939 Athlon 64 FX processors hit the market.

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  • Evan Lieb - Thursday, September 25, 2003 - link

    We just posted Day 3, and I'll probably be posting Day 4 within the next few hours.

    Take care,

    Evan

  • Anonymous User - Wednesday, September 24, 2003 - link

    where's computex day 3? thanks for the coverage so far by the way.

  • Anonymous User - Wednesday, September 24, 2003 - link

    Gygabye's website doesn't show any GV-R96PT28DU card in it's model lineup yet.

    That is the number shown below the card on the photo

    We'll have to wait.

  • Anonymous User - Wednesday, September 24, 2003 - link

    #1, not sure what you're saying.

  • Anonymous User - Tuesday, September 23, 2003 - link

    Where can i get that sweet overclocked gigabyte card! I searched the junk outah it and still can't find it and help is much appreciated.

  • AgaBooga - Tuesday, September 23, 2003 - link

    Mmmm.... SFF! Tasty!

  • Anonymous User - Tuesday, September 23, 2003 - link

    Um, Asus and MSI switching to ATI, has the world gone topsy turvy?

    nVidia now has an official reason to panic.
    That's only their two top tier manufacturers.

  • Anonymous User - Tuesday, September 23, 2003 - link

    Again, missing posts from Anand Lal Shimpi.
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