ECS P35T-A LGA 775 Intel P35 ATX Intel Motherboard

Pros: Price, price and price. Good performance. Certified for Vista (if that matters?) Many connectors for USB and SATA.

Cons: Very limited overclocking, if that's your thing. Bad driver for Realtek HD Audio driver on the software disk- downloaded working driver from internet.

Overall Review: Great board if you're not into heavy gaming or intensive photo/video processing. Wouldn't hesitate recommending this board for heavy everyday good performance at stock options.

Pros: Generous number of ports and a fairly decent price point. Fired up straight out of the box, no problems. Stable w/stock settings.

Cons: Board's layout suffers a critical miss. Designed with nearly every major port in the bottom right corner, ensuring one massive tangle of cables; right above the BIOS jumper, incidentally. To reset, it's easier to just pop out the battery. Both sysfan plugs are located near the back. If your front intake fan cable isn't long enough, sorry for your luck. Also, what possessed them to put IDE1 all the way at the bottom is beyond me. It's a long stretch up to the DVD, adding to the aforementioned cable tangle. Driver CD comes with no intelligent Vista x64 support. Disk literally will not let you install because the OS is not supported. Lastly, the board is *not* OC friendly. BIOS options are rudimentary at best, and the board is very temperamental toward OC attempts. If this is your aim, skip the ECS P35T-A.

Overall Review: Good value for the price, but rough around more than a few edges. Runs well as long as you don't expect anything beyond stock performance.

Pros: Excellent price for an Intel chipset motherboard. Worked as advertised. Good placement of ports and connectors. Good performance. Paired it with a Penryn 2.83ghz 12mb cache chip after the price drop and Corsair XMS DDR2 800 and it worked flawlessly. 3DMark06 went from ~9k to 15k+ at stock from my old FX-60 core system.

Cons: Buckle/flex with Intel HSF attached. I always attach stock HSF's before mounting boards to see just how much tension the boards can take. This one does bend ~3-5 degrees, but every boards gives a little. The board has *1* capacitor that gets in the way of installing very large (IE GTX 280) cards and has to be "nudged" a bit so the card can finish seating.

Overall Review: Look, you have to be realistic. ~$70 for a Intel chipset class motherboard is a great deal, considering others go for $300-400+. With this board and the cheap DDR2 pricing, I was able to put together a massive core sub-system upgrade for ~$500 shipped vs easily blowing over $1000.

Pros: Bought this mobo in December of 2007. Easy set-up. Paired with matched pair (2GB total) Corsair DDR2 Twin 2X memory because it is qualified for this mobo. Booted right up. Overclocks well. RAM limited to 2.1 V. Video card is XFX GF8800 GTS (320 Mb video ram), CPU is overclocked E6750 using Zalman CNPS 9500 AT heatsink/fan. Running 32 bit Vista O/S. Readyboost says CPU=5.9, RAM=5.9, Gaming=5.9, Hard Drive=5.4. ECS mobos are great if you understand what components they can handle.

Cons: Absolutely none!

Overall Review: UltraX-Blaster case, Thermaltake Purepower 600 watts, 2 Stealth 120mm case fans, 2 Lite-on optical drives, 2 Samsung 400 GB SATA hard-drives, Intel Core 2 Duo E6750 CPU, Zalman CNPS 9500AT heatsink/fan, XFX GF 8800 GTS video, Logisys 52 in 1 internal card reader, ECS P35T-A mobo, 2 one-GB Corsair DDR2 Twin 2X modules.

Pros: Excellent MOBO, supports crossfire, 1333 FSB, 6 USB's, outstanding price and supports my 6750 core2 duo. Installed very easily and started WIN XP with no issues. As soon as I connected to the net it auto downloaded all the updates it needed and installed them flawlessly.

Cons: MFG website not user friendly, doesnt support DDR3 or RAM faster than 800MHZ.

Overall Review: This MOBO, 6750 core2 duo CPU w/ stock intel cooler, 4GB KVR800D2N5 RAM, Sapphire Radeon HD 2600 XT 512MB video card, WD 320GB HD, 580W Demon ATX power supply. Cons were not a major issue for me as this was a budget system for under $600 that I built myself.

Pros: Came cheap, fully featured. BIOS has a decent amount of options, although OC'ing is limited. eSATA a nice addition

Cons: See other thoughts for an explanation

Overall Review: I bought this Mobo b/c it was an affordable option w/ a 1333 FSB and would work with Crossfire. I installed two Radeon X1650 Pros, and although Device Manager recognizes both, I cannot initiate Xfire. I get an error message that the two PCI-E slots are not communicating w/ one another. Despite the manual stating that you can enable dual slot configuration, there was no such option available in BIOS. It's entirely possible I'm missing something, but I looked over it several times. I have a Case # w/ ECS and will keep people updated of the findings.

Pros: This is a great motherboard! It is a lot better than my last board which died 3 weeks into it. 4 Ram slots is a plus! Plus, it supports Core 2 Quad processors, which i own one. It's got 6 SATA, 1 EIDE, 2 PCI-E, 3 PCI, 2 System fan headers, and 1 CPU Fan header. It's awsome, works great. (It doesn't have integrated graphics. But you don't need one when you get a graphics card.) Runs Great!

Cons: None so far!

Pros: Worked well right out of the box, booted up first try! I've seem a few negative reviews for the board and ECS products in general. However, I have always had success with ECS products and this board was no exception. This board offers a lot of features for the money with decent OC options. I was impressed with the variety of rear panel ports this board offers! Great bang for your buck!

Cons: None

Overall Review: Built a gaming machine for a customer with this board. Received positive feedback from the customer just recently... Still performing like a champ!