jmke

We've looken at a fair share of motherboards based off AMD's 700
series chipset. Probably one of the names most hardware enthusiasts
don't think of immediately is ECS but they've been trying to put out
some more enthusiast geared motherboards. Today we'll be looking at
one of these the 790GX based A790GXM-A motherboard. As with all 790GX
motherboards currently there are no micro-ATX versions and this board
is full ATX. Two 16x PCI-Express slots are there for Crossfire
support, two PCI-Express slots, and two PCI slots onboard. In addition
to that you have six SATA adapters, an IDE slot, 4 DDR2 1066 slots for
memory expansion. The cooling should be adequate for the Northbridge
and Southbridge of the ECS motherboard. You can see one unusual thing
is the location of the 8-pin for CPU power. On the board you can also
see USB headers in addition to a power on and reset switch onboard the
motherboard next to the SATA ports.

http://www.amdzone.com/index.php/rev...6-ecs-790gxm-a

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