Philipp 6 Posted September 13, 2001 PC Hardware.ro has posted a review on the ECS K7S5A2 motherboard. With AMD processors increasing popularity it´s not a surprise that so many chipset manufacturers try to bit from VIA´s cake. The main problem of VIA chipsets is not performance (or at least most manufacturers can´t compete with VIA in the performance segment). Of course that there are a lot of users who seek for more performance from VIA based boards, but the price is the real segment where VIA can be easily attacked. We all know about ALI´s tries to manufacture a board able to compete with VIA in the low market segment, but only a few manufacturers integrated ALI and further more no many users trusted ALI´s reputation to choose such a board. I don´t mean that ALI disappointed in the past, but you have to agree that they haven´t shown much to the market. SiS (Sillicon Integrated Systems) are not much better known than ALI, but as manufacturer SiS is recognized to be quite innovative. Their latest gadget, the 735 chipset, received a lot of positive feedback from media due to its performance and, most important, its price. This low price enables manufacturers to come up with really low priced motherboards, but until now only Elite Computers Group made the big step and pushed an $80 board on the market. Today we´ll take a look to K7S5A2 the latest SiS 735 based ECS board. Read more Share this post Link to post
