For ECS, black is the new black
Computex 08 P45 leads the charge
ECS IS TAKING the opportunity of today's launch of Intel Series 4 chipsets to up its stature in the motherboard market.
Traditionally a stack 'em high, sell 'em cheap sort of outfit, the company is aiming its new Black Series boards at a higher-end and higher-margin niche.
Black is cool, apparently and this is another line aimed at the see-through case brigade.
The top-of-the-line P48-based X48T uses DDR3 memory, an innovation which ECS reckons will help bring the price of this format down to a more reasonable level over coming months as the volumes crank up. As Intel noted, the 1600FSB speed beefs up up the performance of P48-based boards. The chipset also delivers real X16 bandwidth throughout but is, as ECS notes, blooming expensive. Estimated street price is around €185 for this board
As with other mobo makers here in Taiwan, ECS is quick to point out that it uses 'solid' Japanese capacitors on its black series boards.
Boards based on the P43 chipset, such as ECS' P45FA use DDR2 memory and deliver 8X thoughput.
The firm is also showing an Atom board here. The €60 945GCD is waiting for a case for ECS to slip it into before bring its own Nettop box to market.
That €60 price includes the board AND chip, just in case you were wondering. You'll notice that the chip (under the black heatsink) is actually smaller than the chipset next to it. µ
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Atom board
If they bring out one of those Atom boards at $60 then I'd certainly look at getting one. Would make a lovely web surfing / media box for the kids.Rob
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