ECS P45T-A Black Series Motherboard Review

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ECS P45T-A Black Series Motherboard Review

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ECS P45T-A Black Series Motherboard Review

The P45 chipset has proven to be a very capable chipset with boards based on it ranging from $300 overclocking behemoths to $100 budget boards. The ECS P45T-A Black Series motherboard is a budget minded board with some enthusiast capabilities that help it carve out a piece of the under $100 price segment thanks to rebates. Read on to see how this motherboard does in testing!

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The ECS P45T-A is a fantastic price/performance motherboard and I have faith that it will continue to run at stock speeds until the end of time. This board is perfect for a budget gaming board, a secondary LAN board, or even an office workstation. Couple this board with CrossFire HD4850's and 4 gigabytes of DDDR2 and you are looking at a strong gaming platform.

Article Title: ECS P45T-A Black Series Motherboard Review
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good read! suprised to see the back panel so barren though :-k thought they could have atleast but a couple more usb ports
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martini161 wrote:good read! suprised to see the back panel so barren though :-k thought they could have atleast but a couple more usb ports
Aren't the 12 ports on the board (6 internal + 6 back panel) enough...................... :mrgreen:
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Bio-Hazard wrote:
martini161 wrote:good read! suprised to see the back panel so barren though :-k thought they could have atleast but a couple more usb ports
Aren't the 12 ports on the board (6 internal + 6 back panel) enough...................... :mrgreen:
never! :finga: i dont know about you but i use at least 18 in my eveyday life :mrgreen:
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I only use around 6 at any one time, so there's plenty on the board....................... :supz:
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Too bad they didn't allow for more bios options to get it clocked up more. Who knows though a revision or two later could change things.
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Considering how it seems like ECS is attempting to market the board to the enthusiast, the utter lack of overclocking options was a bit disappointing. I was hoping the board would be something like the Biostar P45 T-Power, a budget monster.
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This is what I think of ECS :vom: :vom: :vom:
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