ECS K7S5A Pro Motherboard

I picked up this board on a fluke to see if I can get a little bit more performance for my AMD Athlon proc. In classic style, this is ECS making boards for chipsets as they come out. In this case, this is for the Sis 700 series motherboard chipsets. This is a nice boost above the old ECS K7S5A Motherboard line. Overall, this makes a great AMD motherboard for any OS you want to run.

Sound Driver and Network Drivers

I had no issues with any of the Windows drivers. Everything worked perfect.

Motherboard Specs

• ATX Form Factor
• SiS 745 Single chip (North Bridge & South Bridge)
• Socket 462 for AMD Athlon XP, Athlon, and Duron processors
• FSB 266/200 MHz
• 3 184-pin DDR DIMM sockets support up to 3 GB
• Supports DDR333/266 DDR SDRAM
• 1 x AGP 4X slot
• 5 x PCI slots
• 1 x CNR slot
• 4 x Ultra DMA100/66 IDE devices
• Realtek ALC101 2-channel audio CODEC (Compliant with AC'97 2.2 specification)
• 1 x PS/2 keyboard & PS/2 mouse connectors
• 2 x USB 1.1 ports
• 1 x Parallel port (LPT1)
• 2 x Serial ports (COM1 & COM2)
• 1 x Game port
• 1 x Audio port (Line-in, Line-out, Mic-in)
• 1 x 20-pin ATX Power Supply Connector
• 1 x FDD connector supports
• 2 x IDE connectors
• 1 x IrDA for SIR header
• 1 x Speaker header (typical 8 ohm)
• 2 x USB 1.1 header support additional 4 USB ports
• 1 x Front panel switch/LED header
• CPUFAN/PWRFAN/CASFAN connectors
• Award BIOS with 2Mb Flash ROM
• Supports ACPI revision 1.0 specification

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