ECS Black Series P45T-A
Source: Tom's Hardware – Keywords: intel, p45, chipset
ECS Black Series P45T-A
With its latest Black Series product, ECS focused on providing great bang for the buck. The board is based on DDR2 memory and the ICH10R southbridge, so it supports RAID 5 on all six of its SATA 3 Gb/s ports as well. An additional JMicron JMB361 controller provides one eSATA port and an UltraATA/133 channel for legacy devices such as optical drives. The board comes with a plethora of overclocking features and a four phase voltage regulator. This is a fairly conservative move, especially in light of Gigabyte’s "virtual" 12-phase implementation on its EP45-DQ6 motherboard, but four phases is sufficient to run even a Core 2 Extreme Edition quad-core processor. However, ECS does not yet offer any power saving solutions like Asus, Gigabyte or MSI do.
The board does not come with a huge heat pipe solution, multiple network ports or sophisticated voltage circuits for the main memory. But it is still a fully featured P45 motherboard with quality components that delivers all of Intel’s features and provides great value for a mainstream user who isn’t going to overclock his or her system. It does offer two PCI Express 2.0 slots, which will run a pair of ATI CrossFireX-compatible graphics cards with eight PCIe 2.0 lanes each.
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Check out Ramdisk from SuperSpeed yet?
Solid state HD's are limited to the Sata connection, partitioning your ram to run games on isn't, love to see some benchmarks (not to mention MetaRam)
We had 32gb MB's ages ago (fatality) just not the DIMMs
Good to see native 16gb, some nice improvements but nothing ground breaking. Probably saving the best for the next socket in 6+ months.
Nice review
According to the MSI's website the P45 Diamond supports DDR3 and not DDR2.
See http://www.msicomputer.com/product [...] d&class=mb