ECS X79R-AX Black Extreme and Deluxe Photo Gallery
ECS X79R-AX Black Extreme and Deluxe Photo Gallery
Posted 10/21/2011 at 1:26pm
| by Paul Lilly
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We've seen a whole lot of teaser shots of soon-to-be-released motherboards built around Intel's X79 (Sandy Bridge-E) platform this week, culminating earlier today in EVGA's dual-socket Super Record 3 (SR3) mainboard. How do you follow something like that? You don't, really -- it's kind of like that scene in Great Balls of Fire! where Jerry Lee Lewis (played by Dennis Quaid) finished his crowd pleasing set by lighting his piano on fire and quipping to Chuck Berry, "Follow that, killer!" But just as Chuck Berry is a legend in his own right, ECS wants to remind everyone that it too knows a thing or two about motherboards.
ECS shared a handful of photos of its upcoming X79-AX Black Extreme and Deluxe motherboards, and while these aren't dual-socket boards, ECS figured it would hire a model to get people's attention instead (note that the model and motherboard are not to scale, though that would be pretty awesome if they were).
Both boards have a pair of DDR3 DIMM slots on each side of the CPU socket. You can also spot onboard power and reset buttons (Extreme), PCI-Express 3.0 ports, USB 3.0, and some other goodies.
Check out our photo gallery below.
Image Credit: ECS
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satrain18
October 22, 2011 at 4:52pm
The other goodies they didn't tell about the Extreme version is built-in Bluetooth and Wi-Fi.
Holly Golightly
October 21, 2011 at 2:23pm
That is one cooling-looking motherboard. Almost as cool as the ASUS Sabertooth with thermal armor. We need more cool motherboards with RAM slots located at different areas. ECS is pretty darn cool!
illusionslayer
October 23, 2011 at 11:38am
Why do you want oddly placed ram? So that coolig companies have to redesign their products to work around the new configs? Or is it just your Apple "Think Different" bullshit showing through again.
x79 boards have two ram slots so that quad-channel memory can have better timings.
Holly Golightly
October 23, 2011 at 1:33pm
Because I am not stuck in the past where form factors must look the same way for decades. The BTX design was something revolutionary... And it looked damn good doing it. What we need is a new form factor. I am tired of looking at upside down graphic cards of those boring ATX motherboards.
Conal_keaney
October 21, 2011 at 1:39pm
Wow keep em rolling. I really don't know many friends that own an ECS but their extreme version one looks nice. I wonder what Asus will release.
d3v
October 22, 2011 at 6:45am
I think the full sized person comes with a gigantic motherboard. The mother of all motherboards!
Paul_Lilly
October 21, 2011 at 1:58pm
If it does -- and I hope it does -- I will name her Indian and stick her in the cupboard (like the book, not the movie).
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