ECS GeForce6100PM-M2(V3.0) Micro ATX AMD Motherboard

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Straightforward Microboard ....easy access to all connections, no troubles installing a Sempron 140, hdd and lite-on dvd burner. I utilized an Apex case in my build and applied the income I saved on this motherboard for a good PSU (Antec 430) and two 92 mm Antec fans. The video is a bit dated but it functions properly for simple dvd playback and light gaming. Ubuntu 9.ten installed with all updates in 40 minutes...quite happy with this motherboard. It,s a surefire steal with the rebate and if you can get a excellent combo deal, even a much better deal

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It was low-cost. That's the only "plus" to this board. Was a total piece from the day I bought it. Arrived with only 1 RAM DIMM slot functioning. The other had half of the socket pins smashed for the duration of their careless assembly course of action. I call them up to clarify this to them and I get yelled at over the telephone. Nice. Onboard video sucks, and entirely failed six months into use. That getting stated, I employed what was left of this mobo for 3 years - 24 hours a day - then it totally crapped out and quit. All the 1800 microfarad capacitors on the board had burst their caps. They used affordable, low capacitance capacitors on it to save themselves a dime. All of them have been shot, and the entire mobo had to be replaced. I threw it in the dumpster, where it belongs. In the end - yes, I did manage to get 3 entire years out of this terrible mobo. Was it worth my cash? Hardly. Save up 80 more dollars and purchase from a business that really cares about their shoppers. I will Under no circumstances obtain from them once more. I bought the 2008 model of this exact same mobo. Came with an AM2 socket.

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Compact board match completely in my HTPC case. Soon after installing and adding elements, the Computer fired proper up on the initial try and installed Windows 7 flawlessly. Has four SATA ports which is lots for a compact Pc setup. In general, I'm Very content with this board for the price tag I paid. Onboard video not fairly strong enough to deal with HD video output and Windows Vistaǝ Aero transparency. Overclockers and intense gamers will not be as pleased with this board. I got this and a Sempron 140 as a combo deal. Onboard video will barely support maximum Aero settings on Vista/Windows 7. If you turn off transparency effects, it runs fine. Onboard video can\'t handle HD video content with out skipping frames. I added a spare Nvidia 8400GS and graphics overall performance practically doubled (HD video and Aero operates great). The 8400GS also utilizes really tiny energy. If you are employing this as a HTPC, I hugely suggest adding a graphics card at least as powerful as the 8400GS (~ฮ-ุ).

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It ultimately works!!! Soon after installing three different CPU's, it lastly functions! It wouldn't even turn on with the other 2. I had purchased the preceding version of this motherboard for my mother. It worked fantastic the 1st time out and is nevertheless operating excellent, so I wasn’t worried at all when I ordered this motherboard. I spent just about ์.00 to get this motherboard as a replacement for my motherboard. The CPU that I already had would not function on this board even though the specs said that it would, so I bought a new AM3 CPU. It doesn't work with this board either. Turns out that I did not get the motherboard that I bought. I got a low finish version of it. The book that comes with it says that it is NOT AM3 compatible. So, now, I have installed the 3rd CPU-a replacement from AMD-who by the way had been amazing. So, right now I am in the procedure of installing the operating program. Oh, I checked the cost, and it is much much better now. Third time is the charm they say, but I favor to plug and play. This is my 4th make and the only 1 that I have had any difficulties with. I wouldn't obtain this motherboard once more given that the specs don't match what I believed I bought. As you can imagine I am not happy that I have spent so much time and work to construct a pc. I recognize that I am not a "real" techno geek, I am an only amateur. My largest mistake was not making positive that the product I received was the similar as I ordered. I waited too lengthy to have it replaced by Newegg; on the other hand, they did give me the manufacturer's tech support #. The fella I spoke with was frustrated with me mainly because I wasn't a techno geek and he didn't know how to speak to plain ole ordinary people that ain't that "TECHNO SAVVY." Anyway, I was reading 1 of the reviews for this board and one particular of the ECS Client Service Reps had written a response giving his info, so I referred to as him. He was actually excellent! His information is beneath. 1st, I want to say that Newegg , chat rep, Angela, was incredibly good and knowledgeable. Thanks, Angela. Currently’s AWARD goes to VINCENT @ ESC. VINCENT GETS A RAVE Assessment FOR HIS Outstanding SERVICE!!! If I was ESC, I would hang on to this guy.Vincent, the 2nd individual I spoke with at ECS, was absolutely awesome. He explained why the motherboard wasn't working appropriately and walked me thru resetting everything. I turned the computer system on and it performs! He was very pleasant and mentioned to call him if I had any difficulties. Needless to say I was incredibly impressed with him. So, as long as everything goes nicely, I will be delighted with the build I have. I really hate that I didn't get the motherboard that the manufacturer stated I was ordering. I wanted to go with an AM2+ or AM3 make. The only processor that I had that this motherboard would work with is AM2. Vincent Wu ECS Elitegroup Inc.44259 Nobel Drive, Fremont, CA 94538 Office - 鸾) 771-0267 Email: Vincent.Wu@ecsusa.co

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Bought it to replace a defective ASUS board. Using it with AMD Athlon II 245, Asus GeForce 9800 GT & DDR2 800 Critical Balistix Tracer RAM since April, with no problems. Installed Ubuntu ten.04 LTS Linux 64bit on it and anything runs just beautiful. BIOS is not genuinely overclocking friendly Genuinely, there is only one particular reason why I bought this specific board. I required one thing with comparable looks and layout to my old ASUS in order to fit nicely in my moded case with no messing my cable management to substantially. I wasn't familiar a wonderful deal with ECS ahead of, but primarily based on my encounter, I would suggest this little board for general computing. On the exact same note, when time comes for my new make, I would certainly look at searching into some of the larger ECS motherboards.

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Cheap, around 40 bucks immediately after rebate. Supports up to am3 with 95w. So a excellent upgrade in the future will be a phenom II x4 ONLY two DIMM Slots, boooo. Effectively i purchased it as a replacement for a my bad pci-express slot asus. But didn't want to upgrade memory to ddr3. So this will aid me postpone a full upgrade.

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Great board, Great Value, Great Rebates, What else can you ask for? four Sata, Can Deal with Phemon II Processor up to 95watts Memory can deal with up to 16gb, Lots of USB ports. Fire-up on fist attempt, Uncomplicated instructions where all plugs goe's onboard. Antec CaseAMD 64x2 5000+ 2.2ghz Kingston HyperX 1066mhz, Board only read it at 800mhz and only can manage up to 800 I knew that already, but only got the 1066 memory.Gigabyte 4350 video card Areo show 4.two and 6. for gaming OCZ Vertex 30gb SSD 2nd Drive WD 750gb 7200rpm 32cahe pin eliminaterosewill card reader on front panelSony 24x Dvd burnerrosewill wireless cardWindow's 7 Ult 64bit Show SSD at six.9 The fourth Sata blocks my video cards, either a single goes or the other, If you desires each, then install a smaller video card lenth sensible that what I did, set up a Gigabyte 4350 cause I need to have the 4th sata for added dvd burner.. If you install memory 1st, then video cards 2nd, then theres's no challenge, If not you have to bend the video cards additional to unlock the pins to eliminate or exhange Memory. These are the minor troubles, Not like you have to do it each and every day, only once in a blue moon to upgrade memory. Lastly, Don't know why ECS got the 10럼 eithernet on board? as an alternative of the 10럼񲿘 I'am sure it don't cost them a arm or a leg. I personally don't use it, I know other people that do. straightforward repair, just install a wireless card. Simple Board, Practically nothing for overclocking or what, But anticipated from the price tag. Otherwise!. This is a good board, for any person with a tight price range, I have No challenges with ECS Rebates, Got all my rebates back from them, Hat Off to them. They don't play games with other persons rebates and treat each and every rebates with up- most respect.. Thank you ECS and Newegg, I have purchased additional than ten ECS board more than the years and other Brands and will buy much more board from you guys once again.. Manufacturer Response:Thank you for your generous assessment of our product, we will take the feedback for the motherboard layout and improve it! Reading your overview have been a fantastic motivation for us to continue providing the fantastic solution with good price and service.Please see my make contact with under and if you need to have any queries or need to have any service/support. Really feel absolutely free to reach me anytime!Thanks once again and we drastically appreciate your feedback.Vincent Wu ECS Elitegroup Inc.44259 Nobel Drive, Fremont, CA 94538 Office - 鸾) 771-0267 Email: Vincent.Wu@ecsusa.com

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None Arrived DoA, all ports have been dead. Not even worth the funds, just paid 贄 for an AMD X2, rather than an AMD X2 + Mobo...

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Replacement for an older version that got fried when a energy supply shorted out. Pleased that this motherboard was nonetheless offered after 3 years with my very first a single. Drivers CD has autorun errors. No difficulty, upgraded drivers from device manager by browsing files on the CD. This newer version (V3.) supports AM3 Processors where the older version did not. Makes it a snap to urgrade to a much more powerful CPU.

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Cheap board. ( and that is the fantastic point ) If you ever have an situation - they are a nightmare to operate with. RMA is the WORST I have EVER worked with and I have constructed 1000's of systems in 15 years. I would and will Avoid ECS and appear at the other fine mfg that NEWEGG sells like ASUS or BIOSTAR or GIGABYTE or FOXCON of anything else NEWEGG sells. Saving a handful of bucks is not worth the NIGHTMARE of the ECS RMA and total lack of buyer service Manufacturer Response:I apologize for the expertise you have had so far.Please do get in touch with me as I would like to locate out what your exact issue is with your motherboard.I also would like to look into your prior case and address any concerns you have. I would also like to help make sure that your RMA is proceeding as it should be.When contacting us, you can refer to case #ECD10061510026 I or any of my team members here at technical help will be able to enable you.Our hours are Mon-Fri 9am-6pm PST.Thank you,Andy44259 Nobel Drive, Fremont, CA 94538 Telephone# 1-510-771-0284 Email: andy_k@ecsusa.com

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The price was low. Soon after using this motherboard for 9 months it goes belly up (but is still below warrenty). I RMA it and till they send me a RMA number 5 days pass. I send my board off ྪ days pass). They send me the precise very same factor back that i send them (same box, protective sheet, and so forth...). In the box i discover a sheet of paper saying the request was processed. Nothing else. No explanation what was carried out, nothing. I try the board (who knows, perhaps they fixed it), absolutely nothing occurs. The board is nonetheless broken.I try to get in touch with buyer service to see what the deal is. After going through a couple of measures with their automated system i am becoming transferred to an operator. I hear a message: "Operator" not available (in the middle of the work day!!!!!).What a collection of clowns. Never ever will i spend an additional penny with this corporation.And i hope no a single else will either. Whoever this Andy guy is who apologizes to everyone who complains about this organization and tries to make up bu referring to a number: DO NOT Make contact with ME.I am completed with you.

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Very good board with the selection to upgrade all the way to quad core pcu. none but This is my 2nd acquire of this board. 1st 1 for me, second for a pal. Replaced dead mb with this and a two.7 GHz AMD Sepron single core processor and 4gb of Corsair DDR2 all for around 贶 after rebates. I am quite pleased.

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Stable, Fast, performs excellent. No difficulties so far with Linux or Windows None so far I hope it lasts far more than two months!

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Decent specs for the funds. Runs 24ǝ on home server without having any troubles. Requires a selection of processors which is good. Chipset/Driver CD was negative. When I attempted to load chipset drivers right after op technique install, technique froze. Tried diverse dvd player, no adjust. I really purchased two of these boards, so took the driver disc from other board. Exact same challenge? OK, figured I would throw the disc into a different laptop and get the files from it and put onto flash drive. It froze that pc up??? Not truly confident why this occurred, but I figure anything screwy with the discs from ECS. Downloaded chipset drivers from ECS onto flash drive and installed fine that way. I guess I have place with each other maybe 30 or so computers, but this was a initially for me! Hope this info can enable somebody if they have the identical issue.

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This is quantity 4 of this board that I personal. I have utilised this board to build computers for my kids. They have been rock solid. I have had no problems, the initially 3 I bought have been in service all most a year. None for a simple board.

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Still kicking, does precisely what I bought it for. It's my "Man-Cave" Pc with a dual core AMD and 4G ram.Excellent spending budget board for all about use. None. If you look about the ratings of all Mobo's, you'll see every person has some 1 eggers, mostly due to faulty boards.This can come about, from time to time you just get a negative 1.I commonly use Gigabyte, Asus, also some MSI and ECS, no complaints. If I do get a faulty one, Newegg or the manuf requires care of it.

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-none -undesirable create-in graphic card. Screen preserve shaking. It occurred on the 1 i purchased and the one i got Returned from Newegg. -This is the 1st time i have dilemma with newegg, Please check the excellent Newegg. Manufacturer Response:We are sorry to hear about the video concerns you have knowledgeable so far. The odds of getting two motherboards with the same concerns are fairly low and we would like for you to speak to us so we could enable uncover a solution.We would like to uncover out a lot more about your configuration, specially what memory is becoming utilised because the program memory shares with the onboard video.When contacting us, you can refer to case #ECD10061410010 I or any of my group members right here at technical support will be able to assist you.Our hours are Mon-Fri 9am-6pm PST.Thank you,Andy44259 Nobel Drive, Fremont, CA 94538 Telephone# 1-510-771-0284 E-mail: andy_k@ecsusa.com

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. RMA was easy to new egg gets 5 eggs for the client service. Crashed the MOBO significantly less than four hours old.

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-PCI-E 16x-phenomII x4 assistance- 4 SATA portsThis board was good for what i was using it for. I could download by means of usenet with no issue. I could also stream 1080p ᤣMbps with out a challenge. I did not originaly buy this i purchased it in a comp from somebody on craigslist. they only applied it for world wide web browsing. Fairly significantly anything else that is built into this puppy.The issue i have had with this is cooling. I have never had a dilemma with this board till i decided to do a complete system back working with norton ghost. About 11% into the back up it would hang and lockup. I believed it was a issue with my OS or with norton ghost. Until i utilised speed fan even though doing the backup and observed that the chipset would get Really hot. Im talking about 250F HOT!. People today said it was due to the thermal resistors becoming faulty and to check the BIOS for the actual temps. BIOS showed the same temps as speedfan. believed about upgrading the cooling but found a low cost replacement mobo with much better onboard graphics. If you are going to use this board for hefty information transfers, you will need to upgrade the low-cost heatsink to to a 3rd party active cooling selection.

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EZ set up-all drivers worked...purchased this in a combo w/ a Semperon 140 for ๏... was a excellent HTPC for my friend who had an old P4 with poor video just before...even tho 6100 is old tech it still is fine for this goal...4gigs of cheapest 800mgz ram from Newegg & 320 sata HD and a 350 PS with a low cost Lite On DvD burner below 200 for rebuild...he's happy and so is his family members none... yes, there are much greater boards out ther; constantly tailor the parts to your will need...not for gaming!! but is Oc'd to 3. and works fine for them...I have been building rigs for 8 yrs...ECS is far better than it utilized to be...they all are in fact.