elitegroups k7s6a review

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Quality	7.5/10
Value for Money	5.5/10
Reviewer Rating	5/10
Overall Rating	5.2/10

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By Jan Simpson. on 16th Dec 2002

Jan Simpson.'s Ratings

Value for money	2/10
Overall value	2/10
Jan Simpson.'s recommendation

Good Points

Its cheap

Bad Points

It don't go

General Comments

We build small quantities of computers for schools, small businesses and home users. We have had quite a few of these boards in, specifically rev.3.1 and EACH one bar one failed to function properly. I have sourced our supplies from different hardware wholesalers and people like Maplins, and each one comes with problems. The main gripe is that they fail to boot at all. Then if you actually get one which boots, it has a tendency to "forget" which processor is running and revert back to initial settings i.e. the lowest. Practically all of the ones I have had go through my workshop displays "Bad Cmos battery" warnings on bootup and need a bios update to recognise any chip higher than 1100mhz. We have also had examples of these boards which initially seem to function fine, then collapse after a few weeks with boot problems. They don't like running 256 of DDR for some reason, even the best from crucial. This product is an abortion. Other resellers I purchase from have also had serious problems with this board. JLT computers in Lincoln sold eight to one company and SEVEN came back as faulty. Also when you can actually get one to run it is very picky on ram. It doesn't like Samsung. Good points? Its cheap.

7 Comments on Review by Jan Simpson. for Elitegroups K7S6A Motherboard

1. KK. on 6th Jan 2003

   Not sure if this review is valid as there is NO version 3 of the ECS K7S6A Motherboard! Here is their motherboard product lineup direct from the Elite website:- http://www.ecs.com.tw/products/pd_list.asp?submenu_id=7&function_id=4 Based on the SiS Chipset -- ATX Form Factor K7S5A V3.X (SiS® 735 Chipset) k7S5A+ (SiS® 745 Chipset integrated 1394A with DDR333) K7S6A (SiS® 745 Chipset integrated 1394A with DDR333) K7S7AG (SiS® 746 North Bridge) L7S7A (SiS® 746 North Bridge) --> as we can see the only Version 3 board mentioned by this reviewer is the K7S5A Board and this board has been widely acclaimed around the world and has won LOTS of awards...Seems like this reviewer may have had some issues unrelated to the board or reviewing another unrelated board altogether!? Regards.

2. edd. on 2nd Feb 2003

   I think you actually mean you are using the k7s5a because all the points you raised are definitely 5a problems and it all comes down to psu to run the 5a well you need a good quality high power psu at least 400w alternatively run the system at 100/100mhz and you get no problems there are other fixes out there. I had a lot of the problems and at present run my 5a at 124/124mhz with the honeyx bios no probs so far, but we'll see how it goes with a high power psu in the near future.

3. Lloydxmas. on 11th Feb 2003

   I have to agree with Edd and the other comment and say these problems are associated with the k7s5a version. As far as I'm aware there is no rev3.1 of the k7s6a and all the above problems I have encountered myself and like Edd the reason is simple, nothing to do with cooling issues or anything complex but quite simply the k7s5a is a very picky m/b when it comes to power supplies.

4. Ben Keates. on 19th Mar 2003

   I was shocked when I read this review. I built a system around the K7S6A last month and it hasn't crashed once. For 50 quid, it's brilliant. Setting it up was no problem, it's extremely stable and supports all the hardware I am using. I am a home user and use mainly high-end games and Office XP on it. I would give the board 10/10 for value for money and 8/10 for performance. Obviously it's not on the same level as the latest Abit and MSI boards with the VIA chipset, but I would certainly recommend it to anyone on a low-ish budget needing medium-high performance. I'm using an Athlon XP1800+ and 256MB DDR RAM, and a 64Mb GeForce 2 MX440. This board performs better than the Abit KG7 in my other system which has an Athlon Thunderbird 1400, same RAM and 64Mb GeForce 2Ti.

5. PaperSack on 18th Oct 2003

   People I have met using ks75a have NO PROBLEMS!, LIKE MYSELF, NONE! NEVER CRASHED IN A YEAR+! Running crucial ram myself, once at 256 then added a 512, now replaced 256 w/ 512 to give a gb. Posters claim of 256mb incompatability is BULL. Most athlon systems are power sensative, try spending some money and get a new PS if you have problems.
   All real reviews agree that the K7S5A is a great board. Not excellent, but you didnt pay for an excellent board, you paid half.
   
   ECS needs to get that new SiS chipset in, gonna be hard to beat invidias but I am completely satisfied with my K7S5A.

6. PaperSack on 18th Oct 2003

   Oh another thing Jan Simpson, don't buy garbage ram and expect it to run in an athlon system. Garbage ram makes for a garbage computer. Samsung makes TVs and monitors well, not ram. Take for instace hitachi, (also bottom of heap garbage) good tvs garbage hard drives (They manufacture for IBM). Had my drive 1 year, dead. IBM DESKSTARS suck tell your friends dont buy IBM (marked) hard drives.

7. runfast on 17th Feb 2005

   I had the K7S5A board for about a year and a half, and I could not get it to work properly. I started out with a cheap PSU, but then upgraded to a 420 watt PSU. It didn't solve anything. I ditched the board and bought an Asus motherboard. No problems at all with it, even though I used the same RAM, video and sound cards with it. Sounds like the ECS motherboard was just a piece of garbage, and sounds as though other people had these problems as well.

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