ECS P4M800PRO-M478 (1.0) Socket 478 VIA P4M800 PRO Micro ATX Intel Motherboard

Pros: Perfect fit for an E-Machine with a fried motherboard. My friends E-Machine nuked itself when it's power supply went bad. For less then $100 I was able to get him this board and a power supply, and it worked great. The board now allows him to upgrade to DDR2 if he wants to and allows Dual Channel mode which the OEM board did not have. This board also gave him a noticeable increase in performance over the OEM.

Cons: None yet. Does not have onboard video like the OEM.

Overall Review: Can't be beat for the price.

Pros: this boarb fits all emachine models/ the board runs cool and has no prob with overheating of north and soth bridge you ccan push this board to the limit and it will not crash.you need to use a good CPU fan NO cheap ones

Cons: hard to find out of stock alot.

Pros: I need a Socket 478 board that accepts DDR400 memory. Not very many available any more. I like the layout of this board (it fit the Foxcon TLM436 case nicely) and the fact that it will accept DDR2, too, though you can't use both DDR and DDR2 simultaneously. CPU is a P4 2.4 Prescott with HTT. 512MB Kingston DDR400.

Cons: First boot, CMOS checksum was bad, needed to be cleared. I partitioned the drive, installed Kubuntu 7.04 Linux. All good. But wait... there's more! After a short time the ethernet disappeared. Cleared CMOS, tried again. It stayed up about 8 hours, then eth0 dropped off the face of the earth again. I've been playing with it for several days, and the flaky eth0 seems to be the only problem. Got an RMA from newEgg, and will try a replacement. Maybe I'll get lucky. =:)

Overall Review: If the replacement isn't rock solid, I'll return it and try something else.

Pros: Very trustworthy board. I like the compatability of the sata hard drives, and that it gives you a choice between onboard video, and a video card. It was DOA when i first got one, and newegg was quick about replacing it.

Cons: Don't buy cheap, crucial ram for this mobo, it isn't compatible. If you see the picture on newegg, the memory modules have small, and square black memory things. Don't get the 1 Gb stick of this. TSK TSK TSK if you did.

Overall Review: Works well with DVD players and burners, and it also has floppy support!

Pros: None - DOA

Cons: Can't tell - it doesn't work.

Overall Review: From all the bad reviews I've read on this board it seems that the company has some very poor quality control measures in place. Now I'm out over 25 bucks because of this board. At least new egg has fantastic customer service.

Pros: NONE.

Cons: Piece of junk. DOA. Tried different PS, CPUs, RAM Sticks, Nothing. Hopefully newegg replace with a working one. Never buy ECS again.

Overall Review: JUNK. I should have listened to reviews.

Pros: Very easy to install. Accepts newer 240 pin DDR2 RAM, has SATA and IDE. Posted on first try. Connectors laid out well

Cons: AGP slot opposed to PCI express for upgrading from the on board video in the future.

Overall Review: Rock solid performer. Will buy again for my next build, if it is an Intel build. Recommend to any one looking for a stable budget system.

Pros: Great looking board

Cons: Does not work out of the box

Overall Review: I got this board and spend the whole month to debug to see if it is my RAM, or my CPU. Finally tested my CPU today and it is great working CPU so the board is bad because there is no way both of my brand new RAM's are bad.