Is ECS NFORCE3-A939 anygood?

Nutbusta

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Can anyone tell me if this is anygood? I have been looking for a cheap NF3 Asus or MSI mobo but this:

ECS NFORCE3-A939 SKT939 nforce3 250 AGP SATA 6channel audio ATX

is available for £25 and I was wondering if anyone knew if it was likely to do the 3700+ I just bought any justice?

Did a bit of googling but couldn't find any reviews

Any opinions on this board or ECS in general would be appreciated and OC information would be great?

Many thanks guys n galls
 
ECS used to make pretty bad motherboards and their quality control was very poor but recently they have improved a heck of a lot, though I am unsure of how that board performs or what it's quality is like. It's probably reasonable quality and the performance is probably on par with other nForce3 250 motherboards.

I highly recomend the AsRock Dual Sata2 Socket 939 upgradeable to AM2 motherboard. It's very stable and can overclock well although the voltage is limited to 1.45v max unless you do a voltage mod to the board.

Other than that it has PCI-E and AGP slots.

The Epox 9nda3i is also a good motherboard but only AGP - onboard sound is a bit off though but if you have a soundcard it wouldn't matter.
 
My last mobo was a ECS Nforce4,totally rock solid and a great clocking board.I have to say i was a little wary of them until i read somewhere they actually make mobo's for some of the top brand names themselves as there main business.
 
There are good and bad motherboards from all manufacturers. Often you need to do a lot of very precise digging to get the truth on boards from companies like ECS as they only very infrequently reviewed and you tend to get people bad-mouthing certain brands for the hell of it. I had an ECS board - didn't clock very well, but it was extremely cheap and very stable. Driver updates weren't an issue because they weren't required. It just worked. I would say £25 for a new board is adequately cheap that you could forgive it if it wasn't just the living end for performance.
 
I heard that it would only do 250 FSB which as you say is fair enough for a £25 board byt it wouldn't do any justice to the 3700 sitting here so I got an MSI Neo2 for £38 which is about right I guess.

Shame I has too slow on the order button when OcUK had B grades for £20 :rolleyes:
 
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