Wednesday, April 21st 2010
ECS Readies Low Cost AMD 880G ATX Motherboard
ECS is ready with a low-cost ATX motherboard based on the upcoming AMD 880G chipset, the ECS A880GM-A2. The board uses a PCB nearly identical to that of the ECS IC890GXM-A, except for the skimpier heatsinks. The board features a simple 3+1 phase VRM which can power AM3 processors, including the Phenom II X6, with TDPs of up to 125W. Solid-state capacitors are used only for some important circuits. The 880G chipset embeds an ATI Radeon HD 4250 IGP, with 128 MB of DDR3 SidePort Memory. It supports dual-channel DDR3 memory, with speeds of up to 1600 MHz.
Expansion slots include one PCI-Express 2.0 x16, one PCI-E x16 (electrical x4), two PCI-E x1, and two PCI. The SB850 southbridge gives out six SATA 6 Gb/s ports, of which five are internal, and one eSATA. Connectivity options include 8-channel audio, gigabit Ethernet, eSATA and USB 2.0. Display connectivity includes DVI and D-Sub. It is expected to be released next week, at an affordable price.
Source:
bit-tech.net
Expansion slots include one PCI-Express 2.0 x16, one PCI-E x16 (electrical x4), two PCI-E x1, and two PCI. The SB850 southbridge gives out six SATA 6 Gb/s ports, of which five are internal, and one eSATA. Connectivity options include 8-channel audio, gigabit Ethernet, eSATA and USB 2.0. Display connectivity includes DVI and D-Sub. It is expected to be released next week, at an affordable price.
14 Comments on ECS Readies Low Cost AMD 880G ATX Motherboard
Just because its cheap doesn't mean you cant make it look even remotely aesthetically pleasing. Gigabyte budget boards aren't that nasty early 90s green, for example.
By the way, can an one tell me what is that DIP type chip below the SB and above the USB heather, left of the front panel I/O?
I want to know if it is the programmable type... :D
is there a current good overclocking CPU? AMD and or intel because i feel like the newer ones don't overclock too good like my old athlon xp mobile ^^...
Remember this?OK. So this MSI board has the 880G chipset. If the 880G has Corssfire disabled, why are there two PCI-e x16 lanes??
This doesn't add up!! :banghead:
Can we crossfire with this one or not??