ECS C-19A SLI Motherboard Review

ECS Does Intel, Nvidia and SLI

ECS has long been recognized as one of the largest producers of affordable motherboards in the industry. Most users of ECS boards have historically been mainstream builders that are looking for a cost effective way to build a computer for their use, or for someone else. ECS has always been affordable, but affordable usually means that you give up someof the bells and whistles that most enthusiasts are looking for. Recently, ECS has tried to build their image to include the enthusiast, while still trying to keep prices at a reasonable level. We have one such affordable solution on the bench today from ECS in the form of the ECS C-19A SLI motherboard, which features the Intel NF4 SLI XE chipset.

ECS has already produced an Intel NF4 board, but this update of the Intel NF4 chipset MCP adds HD audio to the board, and at a pricing of under $80, I think anyone that is looking for a board that supports Intel s775 CPUS and is not wanting to spend huge dollars will be tempted by this offering from ECS. No longer can anyone claim that SLI boards are just too expensive, and both the AMD and Intel sides have boards that are well within the budget of anyone DIY system builder. Let’s look at the specs of this board: