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Introduction

SiS fans will be delighted to see a SIS based AM2 board from PCChips, a subsidary of ECS. As most of you readers know, PCChips is the 2nd brand of ECS that targets the budget users. From the old days of the faithful ECS K7S5A to L7S7A2, 755-A2, PCChips W32 which all uses the various SIS chipsets. These boards turns out to be classics that has served many readers worldwide.

Today, we are again looking at a selling product, the PCChips A33G which uses the integrated chipset SiS 761GX paired up with 956L south bridge. This board supporst the AM2 socket type for dual core processors or the Sempron series. As it is an integrated chipset, it comes with Mirage 1 graphics with 128M Share memory. As Mirage 1 is slower than most of the current integrated chipset from ATi and NVIDIA, it is best to pair up the board with an external graphics card for 3D Games that requires DX9.

The baord also comes with 2 channels of DDR2 slots supporting up to 16GB of DDR2 modules. The board has 1 PCIe x16, 1 PCIe x1, 2 xPCI and 1 xCNR slot. In terms of multimedia capabilities, it has a Fast Ethernet connection supported by Broadcom PHY and a 5.1ch audio using ALC655 AC97 codec. There are 2 SATA 1 ports for RAID 0, 1 and 2 IDE channel for PATA HDD. 8 USB ports can be supported in total.

CPU Socket AM2 for AMD Athlon 64 FX/Athlon 64 x2 Dual-core/Athlon 64/Sempron processor

FSB 1000 MHz

Chipset SiS 761GX/965L

VGA Embedded Mirage Graphics with 128MB share memory

Memory Dual-channel DDR2 memory architecture 2 x 240-pin DDR2 DIMM sockets support up to 16 GB Support DDR2 800/667/533/400 DDR2 SDRAM

Expansion Slots 1 x PCI Express x 16 slots 1 x PCI Express x 1 slot 2 x PCI slots 1 x CNR slot

LAN Broadcom AC131 10/100Mbps Fast Ethernet Phy

Audio Realtek ALC655 6-channel audio codec Compliant with AC'97 2.3 specification

IDE 2 x UltraDMA 133/100/66

Back Panel I/O Ports 1 x PS/2 keyboard 1 x Parallel Port 1 x VGA port 4 x USB 2.0 Ports 1 x Audio I/O (Line-in, Line-out and Mic-in) 1 x PS/2 mouse 1 x Serial Port 1 x RJ 45 Port

Internal I/O Connectors & Headers 24-pin ATX Power Supply connector 2 x USB 2.0 header support additional 4 USB2.0 ports 1 x Front panel switch/LED header CPU / SYS FAN headers 1 x Speaker header 1 x Floppy connector-support 360K~2.88M Byte, 3 Mode FDDs or LS120 4-pin ATX 12V power supply connector 2 x Serial ATA connectors 1 x Front panel audio header 1 x IrDA for SIR header 1 x CD in header

System BIOS AMI 4Mb Flash ROM Supports Plug and Play 1.0A, APM 1.2, Multi Boot, DMI Full support for ACPI revision 1.0 specification

Form Factor Micro-ATX Form Factor, 244*200mm

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