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ECS (Elitegroup Computers) ECS KT600-AMD Motherboard

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• Reviewed by: varsara

  Updated: 11-09-07

  Overall Rating: 4 Star Review

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  Strengths: integrated audio is surprisingly really good. runs cool and reliable.

  Weaknesses: lack of a fifth pci slot below agp is a mixed blessing. bad if you need 5 pci cards but good if you dont since it keeps you from puting a card in the way of the airflow.

  Overall Evaluation: overclocked a sempy t-bred 2500 to 2.0 GHZ without hastle.(thats a 300mhz jump. not huge but for the socket A i think its decent)the manual is horrible so hope you have a bit of experience

• Reviewed by: PMinMO

  Updated: 11-24-05

  Overall Rating: 1 Star Review

  Duration of ownership:11 Months

  Strengths: Cheap, easy to setup, lots of features for the money

  Weaknesses: Memory connections

  Overall Evaluation: I own 3 of the MB's. The first 2 the installations were up and running no issues. One is still running no issues. I upgraded processors from 1600xp to 2800xp and faster memory on one machine and it's been downhill ever since. Went back to old memory, old processor, every combod I tried worked but gave periodic fatal blue screen errors. Bought a refurbed one, to send the bad one back. Same result. Turns out after much trial and error, the ram simm connectors are very tempermental. You can reseat when problem show up and run fine for a day or so, then errors start showing again. No more ECS MB's for me.

• Reviewed by: gabemad007

  Updated: 10-04-05

  Overall Rating: 5 Star Review

  Duration of ownership:3 Months

  Strengths: SATA, 400MHZ FSB, LAN ABOVE ALL THE PRICE

  Weaknesses: If you are into Brand names than ECS maybe out of the question but I haven't found any problems with this board.

  Overall Evaluation: I have built two very price efficient(ok cheap) systems. I have chosen this board because it was practically free with the CPU/MOBO combo Fry's was having. I was really skeptical, because I am a brand name type of a guy, but these systems weren't for me and my customers needed as much for their money, so after looking at the features of this board, I decided it would be perfect. Well, to my surprise these boards have performed rock solid. Easiest install ever and perfect running conditions from the moment they were powered on. Come on, for the price I paid which was nothing, they were a great deal. I just saw this board at Outpost.com for $29.00 you can't beat that. So now I'm looking to build another system and going to be using this board again. Now, if you are a hardcore gamer, tweaker, overclocker, then I can't say much for this board, because I have not overclocked it or even moved it from its default BIOS setup. So I'll stick with my Gigabyte board for overclocking and tweaking.

• Reviewed by: chriskoivu

  Updated: 08-28-05

  Overall Rating: 4 Star Review

  Duration of ownership:30 Days

  Strengths: Easy Setup, Ability to Overclock Processor,RAID Configurations, SATA supported, USB 2.0, Auto Boot Detection.

  Weaknesses: Manual a little confusing.

  Overall Evaluation: Excellent Performance for the price. Make sure DDR Ram rate is at the same speed as FSB for processor, or you will get a bottleneck. I am using a Sempron 2600 chip. You need to use 333MHZ DDR RAM, As a Sempron 2600 uses 333 MHZ FSB. What is confusing is J8 & J9. What the manual doesnt tell you is that the FSB speed is based on the frequency you set these jumpers for. If you set the frequency for these jumpers @ 166 MHZ, you are setting the FSB and RAM Speed @ 333MHZ, So if your RAM cant run @ 333 MHZ, then you need to lower the Frequency, which in turn slows your processor. I like the fact that the BIOS is setup to find a bootable device, even if you don't specify the booting order. I like the RAID configurations, the USB 2.0 & SATA Support. I like the system shutdown feature if the chip overheats due to overclocking. I haven't experienced any problems with LAN or the Audio. Although I have downloaded the latest Audio Driver from the ECS website (6/20/2005).

• Reviewed by: wity

  Updated: 08-14-05

  Overall Rating: 2 Star Review

  Duration of ownership:24 Days

  Strengths: price, 3 dram slots

  Weaknesses: not as reliable as other brand, socket A

  Overall Evaluation: this socket A is perfect for those who wants low cost, but not upgradeable mainboard. while most boards at this price range will only get you about 2 slots of dram, thisone has 3. reliability may stop ppl from using this board. i had to have it exchange twice till i got a working board. performance wise, while it works, is as good as other brand; however, i will not buy ECS again

• Reviewed by: ComputerDayDream

  Updated: 07-13-05

  Overall Rating: 2 Star Review

  Duration of ownership:30 Days

  Strengths: cheap, works most of the time

  Weaknesses: hangs on startup, audio skips

  Overall Evaluation: If you can tolerate a system that hangs on startup about 20% of the time (in my experience), go ahead and purchase it. It has definitely not been worth the headache for me, however.

• Reviewed by: staggers

  Updated: 05-29-05

  Overall Rating: 2 Star Review

  Duration of ownership:30 Days

  Strengths: It's inexpensive, has three slots for RAM, on-board Ethernet and audio. It has SATA on-board which is quite nice to get in such an inexpensive board.

  Weaknesses: Its on-board Ethernet and audio are unstable causing frequent system crashes and lockups. (At least two a week on average.)

  Overall Evaluation: I built a new system with this board and have been running Windows XP on it. Overall the board's decent but the system crashes have definitely lowered the value of the board. Before I go on I should note that I have tested every component on other systems with no system instability. I've even ran Memtest on the RAM for several days (both on this board and on a known stable one) to make sure the RAM is good. Everything checks out fine, so all that's left is the board. Every system crash is preceded by network or audio activity occurring. BitTorrent gives it fits, causing random lockups (it just freezes, won't accept any input but doesn't give a blue screen of death or reboot). Copying files from one system to this one over the network while playing music causes the music to skip (and occasionally a crash, I learned this the hard way.) This system is mainly meant for just E-mail and Web Browsing for my parents so it'll be OK, but don't buy this board to put in a system you're planning to use extensively. Bottom line: It's a cheap board and you get what you pay for here. If the stability issues won't affect you (for instance you don't run it 24x7, only use it for E-mail/Web) then it's a good deal, otherwise I'd avoid it. Spending a bit more for a better board will be well worth it in the long run.

• Reviewed by: zshen

  Updated: 05-22-05

  Overall Rating: 4 Star Review

  Duration of ownership:3 Months

  Strengths: Easy to install; inexpensive

  Weaknesses:

  Overall Evaluation: This ECS motherboard is very easy to install. It didn't exhibit any incompatibility with my AMD Athlon XP 3000+. So far it runs smoothly in my PC. This is my first time trying ECS's motherboard. Although I heard some bad reviews about ECS's MBs, this one is certainly very good. At the low price I paid for it, I'm satisfied.

• Reviewed by: Veri Shop

  Updated: 05-19-05

  Overall Rating: 4 Star Review

  Duration of ownership:3 Weeks

  Strengths: Easy to setup. Inexpensive and stable mobo. With nice feature such as SATA.

  Weaknesses: 4 PCI slot seem not enough, 5-6 would be ideal. Would be nice if also comes with modem.

  Overall Evaluation: This is my first time building computer from ground up. I have very good experience without any problem. Just to remember to adjust the jumper setting according to your CPU frequency.

• Reviewed by: susieling

  Updated: 04-29-05

  Overall Rating: 4 Star Review

  Duration of ownership:45 Days

  Strengths: VERY STABLE BUDGET BOARD

  Weaknesses: does not support DDR400

  Overall Evaluation: Affordable motherboard with satisfactory performance. Manual is easy to read and installation is smooth. BIOS is stable and works great with Windows XP. I have been using it for over a month and it never gives me any problems. Great buy!

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