This Intel motherboard comes in a box designed exactly the same way as any other contemporary ECS motherboard. The box is very thin, because there are very few accessories inside.
ECS only supplies an Intel motherboard with a user’s manual, installation poster, a CD disk with drivers, one IDE and one SATA cable, and I/O Shield for the rear panel. One piece of each, and no FDD cable at all. If you look at
ECS P35T-A motherboard, the design will seem pretty flawless, without any serious issues that would catch your eye right away.
You may notice one thing that is not really typical of ECS motherboards : MOSFET transistors are packed in a close group and covered with a heatsink. Another thing that you have never seen by ECS motherboards before is the electronic components used for the processor voltage regulator circuitry : they used different types of solid-state capacitors. This Intel motherboard uses regular ICH9 southbridge chip without RAID support. There is also an empty spot for the IEEE1394 controller, but it is not laid out on the PCB. There are also three USB pin-connectors that allow up to 6 additional USB 2.0 ports. JMicron JMB361 controller is responsible for the implementation of the eSATA port on the motherboard rear panel and an IDE1 connector that can host up to two Ultra DMA133/100/66 devices. A little disappointed is, there are no fan connectors around the southbridge area. Altogether there are three fan connectors, and they are all in upper left part of the PCB. Sou, you will need to use an extender/converter to connect the front panel fan for air intake. The rear panel of ECS P35T-A motherboard features PS/2 ports for keyboard and mouse, a COM port, eSATA, 6 USB ports, network RJ45 port and six audio-jacks. They used 8-channel Realtek ALC883 codec for audio and a pretty rare on contemporary mainboards Intel 82566DC GigaLAN Controller for network support.
The ECS P35T-A motherboard made a pretty neutral impression : it doesn’t push you away, but also doesn’t really attract at the same time. It cannot overclock very well, but it works fine in nominal mode. It boasts pretty modest set of features and accessories bundle, but offers acceptable PCB design and is free from noisy fans. There is nothing you could really complain about, but at the same time, not much to praise, either.
ECS P35T-A motherboard specification :
- Processor : Intel LGA775 processors (45nm ready -- Wolfdale and Yorkfield)
- Chipset : Intel P35 / ICH9DH
- FSB : 533/800/1066/1333 MHz
- Memory : 4 x DDR2 (677/800 MHz) up to 8GB
- Audio : 8-channel Realtek ALC 883 audio codec (Co-lay ALC888)
- LAN : Intel 82566DC GigaLAN Controller
- Form Factor : ATX (30.5cm x 24.4cm)
- AGP/PCI/PCIe x16/PCIe x4/PCIe x1 : 0/3/2/0/1
- USB/FireWire/Serial/Paralel : 6(6)/0/1/0
- PATA/SATA/eSATA : 1/6/1
- Accessories : User manual, installation poster, driver CD , IDE cable, SATA cable, rear panel I/O Shield.
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