In an interesting turn of events, ECS announced that the only mainboard it will be releasing based on Intel's popular Bearlake P35 chipset will be a Digital Home product, the P35T-A.

This marries the P35 MCH to the ICH9DH southbridge to support Intel's Viiv technology straight out of the box.

We're surprised to see ECS not take the budget ICH9 (non-R) route with its retail model - it's known as a company that puts value-for-money ahead of fancy features.

But at least the possibility of CrossFire is present.