06-22-2006, 02:15 AM
Quote:I don't know. I feel like the ECS board is the better board, but that I'm leaning against it because its ECS and the processor is a tiny bit slower. I'll have to give things more thought.
For what it's worth, my old AMD 1700+ system used (and still uses) an ECS mainboard. It has onboard video (+ AGP slot), audio, NIC, and never gave me even a lick of trouble in the 4 years I've owned it. The onboard stuff is kinda lacking in features, but it all works well enough. Most importantly, the thing was dirt cheap and still works great.
From what I hear, ECS is pretty much hit-or-miss as far as quality goes. Either they work great right out of the gate, or they just refuse to work. If you get one, be sure it has some kind of warrantee. Any problems you might find will likely happen within the first month or so, in which case you can RMA it.