ECS D6VAA-R- a Powerhouse!
Written: Nov 26 '01
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Pros: A cheap Pentium 3 raid solution
Cons: raid controller is in a bad spot
The Bottom Line: If you're going to be buying a PentiumIII board, this board is for you. Its got it all.
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| dj245's Full Review: Elitegroup D6VAA-Raid Motherboard |
This motherboard is da bomb. It comes with room for 8 IDE devices for all those upgraders who don't like having to abandon their old drives. It also comes with spots for dual Pentium III cpu's up to 1ghz. It has sound onboard, and a USB header so you can get USB ports on the front of your case. ATA/100 ensures that you get fast hard drive access, and an AGP 4x slot powers your 3d. The bios is very thoughrough and has tons of options, the only bios quirk is that there is no 1-mhz incrementing for the front side bus. There are options every couple of mhz. Right now I'm running a Celleron 733 processor at 880mhz, and as I sit here typing under a full CPU load the processor is 89 degrees F. One interesting thing about the board is that it can take 1 or 2 PentiumIII chips, or 1 Celleron or Celleron2 chip, or 1 Cyrix chip. However, if you plan on using 2 processors, you must use Pentiums, the Celleron2 is incapable of running SMP. This is an excellent board, and the only problem I have ever had with it is the raid plugins are at the very bottom of the board, and in large cases you will need the longest IDE cables you can find, 24 inch won't cut it, you will probably need 36 inch cables for the upper drives. This board can take up to 1.5gb of PC133 ram, probably the cheapest kind of ram you can buy today. The board has 3 slots accomidating 512mb each. I love this board, its pretty stable and downright cheap. Get it!
Recommended:
Yes
Amount Paid (US$): 98
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