ECS introduces another black edition mainboard, this time round, it is the ECS X58B-A, a LGA1366 Core i7 system board. The LGA 1366 CPU-socket interface is designed to accept Intel® CoreTM i7 processors and will supersede LGA775 in the high-end and performance desktop segments. It contains nearly 600 extra pins for QPI links which offer faster data transfer and three 64-bit DDR3 memory channels will provide the best gaming experience.

With the economy downturn, most people won't go for a better price/performance product when upgrading their PCs. As we are aware, the Core i7 processors are rather expensive. When paired with an expensive board, it would costs a bomb.

For the cost/performance factor, most people would not really consider getting multiple high end GPUs. In this case, ECS sticks to the basic, offering only 2 single PCIe x16 2.0 full length slots for supporting CrossFire and SLI.

Although it only has 2 full length PCIe slots, it is still feature pack.  The board supports 2 eSATA for HDD hot plug. The ICH 10R also supports RAID 0,1,0+1,5 for the SATA II ports. There is also 8 ch audio, Dual GbE, 1394 built on board.

The ECS board differentiates itself from other brands with it's QoolTech II, a silent cooler with a special design providing an excellent heat transfer capacity and efficiently reduced the temperature of computer system.

For Overclockers, the board comes wiht M.I.B, or motherboard intellitent BIOS. Never have I seen the wide range of voltage options on an ECS board.

CPU Voltage : Adjustable CPU voltage from 0.5V to1.6V
NB (IOH )Voltage: Adjustable NB (IOH) voltage from 0.011V to 0.693V
CPU VTT Voltage: Adjustable CPU VTT voltage from 0.013V to 0.481V
SB(ICH10R) Voltage: Adjustable SB (ICH10R) voltage from 0.05V to 0.15V
VDIMM : DRAM voltage control from 0.015V to 0.945V
Support PCI-E over-clocking function
Support CPU over-clocking function: Adjustable CPU Clock Multiplier

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