My Winner

Advantages: This motherboard works in a great speed and stability.
Disadvantages: I have not found it, yet.

...Bridge and South Bridge are combined to be 1 chipset (SIS735) Sound Onboard = AC97 Codec Price = USD 71 You know that finally ECS K7S5A. The price (USD 71) was not the main factor that changed my mind to choose ECS K7S5A. I was thinking and thinking about my needs. At my first glance, certainly I thought that ASUS was the best of all. But realizing that those motherboards were new products, the famous brands could not be hold as the only reference. How did I solve my problem? The only way was to measure the performance of each motherboard. Certainly it was impossible to do it for all motherboards. Hence, I had to determine some motherboards to be benchmarked, namely ASUS A7V266, ABIT KG7 and ECS K7S5A. I chose ASUS and ABIT because I thought that they had great reputations and certainly they were worth considering. Then ECS was...

djohan 07.03.2003 · Read review
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Review of EliteGroup K7S5A Pro - motherboard - ATX - SiS735

K7S5A ECS MOTHERBOARD....

Advantages: Great Value
Disadvantages: Some Revisons of this Board have memory problems....

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wakey_uk_22 04.05.2003 (05.05.2003) · Read review
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Review of EliteGroup K7S5A Pro - motherboard - ATX - SiS735

Ultra Quick and Ultra Stable

Advantages: Quick, stable, some useful software tools
Disadvantages: No extra USB connectors, setting up jumpers is a pain

...In the ever increasing war between Intel and AMD, processor speeds have been incraesing at a rapid rate, but the speed of the processor is limited by the motherboard chipsets performance, meaning that for every new processor we are having to upgrade our motherboards. For some time the SiS735 has been the best chipset for the AMD Athlon processor, until Via released an enhanced version of their KT266, calling it the KT266A. With this release they took back the crown for best performing chipset, for the Athlon processor. As I had just bought a new Athlon XP1700, I decided to get a new board as well, and after hunting around a bit settled on the QDI Legend Kudoz 7 V2 (Version 1 was based on the KT266 and should be steered clear of). It comes with the usual accessories, floppy cable, IDE cable, driver CD and some free software. As well...

cjkace 24.03.2002 · Read review
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