ECS to Throw Down with a 990FX Motherboard of Its Own
ECS to Throw Down with a 990FX Motherboard of Its Own
Posted 05/23/2011 at 12:53pm
| by Paul Lilly
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Elitegroup Computer Systems (ECS) is doing its best to shed its old reputation as strictly a budget board maker by focusing on higher end chipsets. That includes AMD's upcoming 990FX chipset, the one built for Bulldozer sporting a new AM3+ socket. This is the chipset enthusiasts will reach for when popping in new four-, six-, and even eight-core processors.
The fellas over at Turkish website Donanimhaber.com managed to unearth a picture of ECS' soon-to-be flagship AMD motherboard, the A990FXM-A. It looks like most of the other 990FX boards we've seen and features four DDR3 DIMM slots (supports dual-channel DDR3-1866), three PCi-Express 2.0 x16 slots (x16/x16 or x16/x8/x8), six SATA 6Gbps ports, IDE port, and two eSATA ports. Also included are a handful of USB 2.0 ports and four USB 3.0 ports, plus a bunch of other goodies.
On a related note, Nvidia and AMD recently were able to put aside their differences long enough to hammer out a license agreement that allows AMD chipsets to use Nvidia's SLI technology. The first chipsets to make good on this new license will be AMD's 970, 990X, and 990FX.
Image Credit: ECS via donanimhaber.com
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Glycerin
May 23, 2011 at 8:39pm
I don't like ECS and PC Chips motherboards are absolutely horrible. Why would I buy an ECS board when I could buy an Asus board? Or an MSI or Gigabyte board?
I plan on getting Bulldozer when it comes out and you can be sure as hell I won't be rockin an ECS board. 98% chance it will be Asus :)
tony2tonez
May 23, 2011 at 5:14pm
I used to work for a wholesale Motherboard PC. I used to sell ECS and PC Chips motherboards to computer shops. ECS was a decent budget board with good performance. I used a Athlon XP+ for years on their board. I was even able to do a AMD upgrade on it. Thats going back 10yrs.
Keith E. Whisman
May 23, 2011 at 1:37pm
The waiting is killing me, just when in the heck is Bulldozer going to come out anyway? I want to see just how it compares to Intel's best. I just have a bad feeling that Bulldozer is taking too long and by the time it does come out, it wont be any competition to Intel at all.
Kinetic
May 23, 2011 at 5:00pm
July I think? Anyway I agree and I hope it's worth the wait too. I've seen some supposedly leaked docs showing the new bulldozer cpus outperforming the 2600k, but I'll believe it when I see it first hand.
Caboose
May 24, 2011 at 9:06am
I hope so.
It won't prevent me from buying AMD for future builds though if it doesn't perform as well as we all hope. Will just be a little sad.
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