ECS H55 Mini ITX

[21stHermit]

ECS H55H-I LGA 1156 Intel H55 HDMI Mini ITX Intel Motherboard $77

Zap are you out there?

 

[jaydee]

Also very interested in this board. $50 (40&#37 less than the Zotac. Feature-wise, looks like all it doesn't have is on-board wifi, no? And a few less USB ports. Wait... in the newegg and ECS websites, neither mention i7 compatibility... Is this really only Clarkdale compatible, and not Lynnfield? Is it power draw limited?

How's ECS viewed these days? A few years (ok, maybe 8 years) back I bought a really cheap (~$50) ECS board based off a SiS chipset for an AMD system and had zero problems.

 

[21stHermit]

Since it has one PCI Express 2.0 x16, I suspect it'll support any S1156 CPU, just add a video card.

 

[o1die]

It does support all the 1156 cpus. But don't plan on using a high powered pci-e card with a 200w ps.

 

[iluvdeal]

Great price. I'm personally waiting on Gigabyte to release their H55 ITX board.

 

[Zap]

Zap are you out there?

Huh? What?

Official CPU support list
Looks like it supports all current socket 1156 CPUs. Of course those intending to use integrated video need to use a CPU that has it.

Seems like the cheapest socket 1156 mini ITX board on the market, which is not an unusual MO for ECS.

Here are some web reviews:

Hardware Secrets

The guru of 3D
"very recommended as a good value product"

Tom's Hardware
"ECS beats Intel"

Seems as if this would be a decent product for being cheap, having HTPC-friendly outputs and having basic overclocking controls.

I'd hit it! Well, if I didn't already have the DFI board. Hell, haven't even used the DFI board outside of the test bench yet, so "early adopter impulse buy" FTL.

 

[gaidin123]

I recently got this board paired with an i3-530 and the A-Data 2x2GB DDR1333 kit but still need to figure out what video card to purchase. For now it's using onboard. It only supports LGA1156 CPUs up to 87W TDP which *excludes* the standard i5-750/8XX series quad cores. It'll be interesting to see if AT tries these in their review. At best it should support the S series quad cores like the i5-750S which has an 82W TDP instead of the normal 95W TDP.

Basically this board blows the other P55/H55/7 Mini-ITX boards out of the water in terms of price. Features are similar enough for me though I'm definitely putting the board through some testing as it's my first ECS branded one.

Gaidin

 

[hans007]

its $69.99 at ewiz if you use code "ladybug10"

 

[Zap]

Anandtech finally reviews it!