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Elite ECS K7S5A PRO
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Summary


Features:
  • Supports AMD Athlon XP - Athlon - Duron processors
  • Socket A architecture
  • SiS 735 chipset
  • Super I/O - ITE IT8705F
  • Supports up to 1GB PC133 / PC100 DDR SDRAM or SDRAM via 2 DIMM sockets
    Information
    Brand: Elite

    • Average Ratings for Elite ECS K7S5A PRO

    • Quality2.3 stars
    • Ease of Set Up3.7 stars
    • Value for Money3.4 stars
    • Reviewer Ratings3.3 stars
    • Overall Rating3.8 stars

    17 Reviews For Elite ECS K7S5A PRO

    • Guest 15th Oct 2009

      Reviewer rating: 4 stars


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      Found this motherboard in a battered case in a scrapyard, got it for free, brought it home, chucked it in a case i installed an Athlon 1500, 512 meg of pc133 and 2 x 20 gb hdd, and it worked.!!!!
      It was really easy to setup and find all the drivers for it too.
      It's now running a cable modem to belkin "N" wireless, wireless printer and fax, its not put a foot wrong so far, not a bad bit of recycling, eh.

    • Guest 16th Mar 2009

      Reviewer rating: 5 stars


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      The Elite ECS K7S5A PRO is the best board i have ever had.. Bought it 7 year ago added some RAM.. works great ..running window xp now (was runnign 98 at the time).. no problem finding drivers.. No bad points that I can think of.

    • jdavies01 7th Jan 2009

      Reviewer rating: 4.5 stars


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      K7S5a is from my own experience has been totally reliable. I have run mine for 6 years now, having flashed my Bios to upgrade it once, and the Motherboard Drivers once. All PCI slots have been completely reliable, as have all USB and serial ports. I run a pair of Seagate 120 gig drives and a LaCie 500 gig external, using two sticks of DDR 3200 Corsair Memory. Mine is housed in a Cooler Master TAC-T01 Wave Master Aluminum Case, providing the Board and case contents with plenty of air flow. Temper ...

    • Guest 27th Nov 2008

      Reviewer rating: 5 stars


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      Absolutely reliable, used this board for over 4 years never had a problem easy to set up and never had to change a thing, have had to change my g card twice, cd/dvd roms twice and chip once but this board is still working! Well recommend Elite ECS K7S5A PRO/

    • Guest 5th Nov 2008

      Reviewer rating: 5 stars


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      I have been dealing with systems for about 9 years, and suddenly, within the past 2 years I have had this K7Pro Motherboard and I have "NO" problems with it whatsoever. Works really well with all AGP Processors installed. I am using a PC3200 DDR RAM in both DDR slots on this machine and flies! I don't know about you other guys who rate this product a "0" But I take care of it and it does run "Flawlessly" like the review stated above. It ' s all how you tweak the system and work with the software ...

    • Guest 11th Mar 2008

      Reviewer rating: 4 stars


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      There are actually to different versions of this motherboard one with the C-Media and the other with a soundblaster compatable sound chip, actually when I installed XP Home on my pc it tried to install the C-Media software which is strange as there is actually no C-Media chipset on the motherboard in my pc even though it is a K7S5A motherboard.

      Good but tries to install a sound driver for a sound chip that is not on the board. I can't actually remove the C-Media driver of my machine because on ...

    • Guest 3rd Dec 2007

      Reviewer rating: 4.5 stars


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      Although this MB is now out dated, it seems after reading the other comments that you either get a good one or a dud, sort of a 50/50 thing. I've read elsewhere that flashing the BIO's on it can kill this board and or cause all sorts of problems. i.e. "if it ain't broke don't mess with it! "

    • blueside 13th Apr 2006

      Reviewer rating: 5 stars


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      I love it, been running it for years now, for my business, and they have worked flawlesly.

      The only thing wrong with it is user error, they are not dummy proof, if you hook it up right, run the right O.S. you will not have any issues with it.

      I am still surprized by how well it has worked compared to my other boards ASUS, In the last two years I have had three ASUS fry on me.... Dont get me wrong I love ASUS, but I have had problems with them, and the like especially consitering the price ...

    • Kevin Murphy Rank: Lance Corporal 8th Dec 2005

      Reviewer rating: 4 stars


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      The 10 USB ports was a contributing factor in me buying the Elite ECS K7S5A PRO motherboard. I found this board to be one of my favorite boards to use. I honestly have yet to find a reason not to have purchased it. I am slightly disappointed in its limitations - only 4x AGP and Processor socket type, and RAM modules rapidly changing quickly made this board outdated. I have never had lockup problems using this board.

    • miconn 27th Nov 2005

      Reviewer rating: 0 stars


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      The Elite ECS K7S5A Pro motherboard is more trouble than it is worth. The PCI slots are very unreliable. New PCI devices cause all kinds of system freezing and conflicts, especially with a Soundblaster live soundcard.

    • girlygirly 28th Sep 2004

      Reviewer rating: 4.5 stars


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      As an owner of so called 4 top end mobo computers Asus , et al, I hate to admit that the old ECS K7S5a keeps on, gaming while the others quit. True every slot on the board is filled, 2600 Athlon AMD, XP Pro, Albatron 5800 fxUltra, Pinnacle TV card, 1 Meg Legend pc 2100, Firwire, from card reader (below) floppy disc and usb for digicam. I cut 3 nice holes in the case with a hole saw and couple extra fans. I'm one of those who hated this board when I first got it, I grudgingly admit now it's blo ...

    • BLADE1969 17th Aug 2004

      Reviewer rating: 0 stars


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      I have been building custom computers for about 4 years now, And in January 2004 I came across the Elite ECS K7S5A PRO mainboard. It seemed a good deal for the price 55$ CAD. Problems started in July 2004 when I booted it sometimes detected my hdd sometimes not!!! So I thought it was an IDE problem so I took it back to my vendor to find out after a 95$ inspection to find out I WAS RIGHT (imagine paying 95$ inspection for a 55 $ board) So my vendor tells me that he will sent it back on RMA, but i ...

    • Mitch Gift 31st Jul 2004

      Reviewer rating: 0.5 stars


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      I have spent way too many hours trying to get this computer to do what it's supposed to do. It won't ever start up reliably.
      It doesn't recognize the HDD, or the Video Cards. I'm lucky to get a picture at all. Today it defaulted to an all time low of 766mhz, from a rated 1533mhz XP1800.
      I bought this K7S5A Pro at Fryes with the XP1800 processor for an unheard of $79.99 for both! What a deal? Hardly! That is unless you like pulling your hair out for about .50 an hour?
      That's money I th ...

    • Xodius 25th Jul 2004

      Reviewer rating: 5 stars


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      Great board, I bought from Mwave and built a newer machine running XP Home and it works flawlessly! My GF loves it and uses the machine for gaming so it can't be too bad. No clue what others are complaining about.

      I have built systems for over 15 years and have had some great boards and some rubbish ones but this one is solid!

    • rasinhl 17th May 2004

      Reviewer rating: 0 stars


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      Too numerous to name them all of the problems with the ECS K7S5A PRO motherboard but by far the worst has to be the bios. I bought 2 brand new, still in the shrink-wrapped boxes, identical K7S5A PRO's and after meticulously installing into my case, I immediately start having problems. 1st thing, instead of detecting my cdrom, it gives me the ol' *^%$$#^**&$#@ rubbish, which will sometimes happen if the cdrom's screwed up the firmware. I change units 5 times with known working ones with same resu ...

    • azrael 9th Feb 2004

      Reviewer rating: 5 stars


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      I've built several systems with both the ECS K7S5A and the ECS K7S5A PRO. Both were easy to setup and after over 2 years since the first, no problems whatsoever. This is a good board at a great price. Use quality components and it's unlikely you'll have problems. These boards are inexpensive but good quality. Great if you already have SDRAM.
      *building computers since 92*

    • SalemCat Rank: Lance Corporal 3rd Feb 2004

      Reviewer rating: 0 stars


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      I've been building and maintaining computers for nearly twenty years, and the ECS K7S5A PRO is by far the worst Motherboard ever.

      It starts up fine, and even loads WIN98 w/o problems (usually). But try to upgrade to WIN98SE - forget it.

      I haved swapped EVERY component, all of which tested good on other systems. I tried tweaking the BIOS every which way, and flashing the latest Version, of course.

      Finally I got the Board to work by installing the OS and several programs with the HD in an ...