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ECS gets in on Intel's P55 chipset with P55H-A Black Series board

by Parm Mann on 8 September 2009, 13:10

Tags: P55H-A Black Series, ECS

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Wondering what ECS has in store for Intel's new P55 chipset? The answer is the P55H-A Black Series motherboard.

ECS' board, pictured above with an LGA 1156 socket in full view, offers support for the tasty new Core i5 and Core i7 processors and targets those planning a gaming rig on a budget.

The P55H-A features a pair of PCIe x16 slots with support for ATI CrossFire, and four DDR3 DIMM slots allowing for up to 16GB of 1,333MHz RAM. Elsewhere, there's an eSATA port for external storage, a selection of on-board SATA ports supporting RAID 0,1,5 and 10, a total of 14 USB ports, eight-channel Realtek HD audio, Gigabit Ethernet and a six-phase PWM.

As you'd expect, the board is also kitted out with a selection of ECS exclusives - including the M.I.B. II OC BIOS utility and ECS' instant-on Linux operating system eJiffy.

We'd expect the board to be hitting stores today, but we've yet to see any mention of pricing.

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Posted by Pob255 - Tue 08 Sep 2009 14:45
Why do manufactors always stick the EPS power socket in such a bad location, surely it doesn't add that much more to the cost to move it to the edge?
Posted by Breezey - Tue 08 Sep 2009 14:54
Pob255
Why do manufactors always stick the EPS power socket in such a bad location, surely it doesn't add that much more to the cost to move it to the edge?

They dont, the crap ones do like ECS just look at the board compared with the Gigabyte.
Posted by miniyazz - Tue 08 Sep 2009 21:30
Pob255
Why do manufactors always stick the EPS power socket in such a bad location, surely it doesn't add that much more to the cost to move it to the edge?

Can make it more accessible in full tower cases with bottom-mounted PSUs. Having said that, the CPU cable in my full-size p182 with bottom mounted PSU passes behind the motherboard, all the way to the top to come out and plug into the mobo.. not sure if the cable routing would work with the power socket further down.
Posted by 007 - Wed 09 Sep 2009 00:20
Sorry, but I have had only bad experience with the firm, and for me, the ECS trademark means ‘no go’, no matter how great it looks like.

My last mobo from them KV2 Lite (socket 939) did look good and seemed well -made but a lot of bios settings just did not work