<< Never again will I recommend an ECS board. It's like Russian roulette. Sometimes you win, sometimes the board dies. The iWill XP-333 is a great value. About $100, onboard 5.1 sound (C-Media, about as bad as an SB Live!), RAID, decent performance, solid, and good overclockability. >>
<< Worst experience of my life with ECS. Well, worst computing experience. I thought that ECS was #6, after Asus, MSI, Intel, Gigabyte, and Abit. If they are no. 1, they're there due to extremely low prices. You get what you pay for. >>
<< HAVE NEVER OWNED AN ECS MOTHERBOARD THAT WASNT CRAP!!!
I hate ecs and i recommend their products to only my worst enemies.
I have owned Celeron, P3, P4, Athlon/Duron mobos, all of them had issues, and all of them had crappy drivers.
I even gave them a 2nd chance last month with a friends computer i was building, Duron1ghz rig. Ran like crap, USB drivers didnt work at all, checked the webiste, no drivers, had to go to vias site to get the 4 in 1s, they didnt detect the controller, i literally smashed the motherboard in the driveway i was so frustrated, got an Iwill KK266+, runs great. Same hardware. Go figure.
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AHAHAAHAHAHA! You guys are the kings of unintentional comedy, and that microwaving of the board was just great! Seriously though, I've had a PCChips mobo, and I belive an ECS one before, and yes, they are crap. Although some do run (that's about all you can say about them) they certainly don't "run like champs". They eek by on passible performance and borderline stability until they die, and they are sorry excuses for motherboards. After owning a few of these pieces of crap, I'm pretty much a pure-ASUS man (although I know MSI, Gigabyte, Abit, etc can make some pretty good motherboards).