Review: ECS C19-A SLI

by Ryszard Sommefeldt on 13 April 2006, 09:00

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ECS Elitegroup C19-A SLI

ECS Elitegroup C19-A SLI
Board Feature Implementation
Northbridge NVIDIA C19XE
Southbridge NVIDIA MCP51
Processor Support All Intel LGA775 microprocessors including
Extreme Edition
dual-core Pentium D
HyperThreading Technology
200/266 FSB
Memory Support DDR2
DDR2-667 Maximum
16GiB total, 4 slots
Graphics Support PCI Express
2 PEG16X slots
NVIDIA SLI
PCI Express 2 x PCIe 1X
PCI Conventional 3 x PCI 2.3 slots
Networking Marvell 88E1115 PHY; Gigabit Ethernet
Firewire VIA VT6307 on PCI; 2 FW400 ports (optional, not on the sample)
Audio Realtek ALC883; HD Audio, 8-channel
Jack sensing, optical Toslink and coax digital out
USB MCP51; 8 ports USB2.0
Disks MCP51; 4 SATA300, 2 ATA133 IDE, RAID0,1,0+1,5

[advert] All the features you'd expect to find on a modern Intel-supporting mainboard are there, including four ports of SATA2, lots of USB2.0, HD Audio CODEC and support for dual graphics via NVIDIA SLI.

And when those features are standard on relatively cheap mainboards without question means the consumer ultimately wins. NVIDIA's MCP51 is the reason why on this particular board. The chip's ActiveArmor firewall is built in, and its MediaShield disk controller for RAID and SATA2 is present and correct.

For a $90 mainboard I don't see where any complaints could be levelled at the feature set. Layout next.