ECS P45T-AD3 Black

INTRODUCTION

It's good to see OEM motherboard manufacturers breaking away from their normal everyday routine of building motherboards with little in the way of features and absolutly zero or, at best, extremely limitied overclocking capabilites. ECS brings us their new line-up of motherboards, the "Black Series", giving us users more flexibility and added features, while at the same time making their products still affordable. I bring you today the ECS P45T-AD3 Black Series motherboard, being armed with an already proven chipset for overclocking (Intel's P45) and including support for DDR3 1333 (natively) and up to DDR3 1600 support (overclocked). Also, it fully supports Intel's 45nm CPU's (Yorkfield and Wolfdale CPU's). Does the ECS P45T-AD3 Black Series have what it takes to keep up in marketplace already dominated by great manufacturers like Asus, Gigabyte, and MSI? Let's see what this motherboard can do, shall we?

About ECS

ECS, the Elitegroup Computer Systems (TSE: 2331), has been a pioneer in designing and manufacturing computer motherboards since 1987. It was the first motherboard maker in Taiwan to be listed on the Taiwan Stock Exchange in 1994. Today, the company also designs and manufactures barebone and complete systems, such as notebook computers and high-end servers, for distributors worldwide.

Headquartered in Taiwan with business partners and distributors in over 60 countries, ECS has ISO 9001:2000 and ISO 14001:2004 certified manufacturing facilities in China, capable of producing over 2.5 million motherboards and 200,000 notebook computers every month. The company currently has branch offices throughout the world in Americas, Europe and the Pacific Rim. To further extend its quality products and services, ECS plans to open additional branch offices in the new emerging markets including Brazil, India and Russia.

With its 20 years of experience in designing and manufacturing motherboards, the building block of many of today's personal computers, ECS is expected to remain as one of the major contributors in the IT industry. The company is very fortunate to work very closely with many major chip designers in the PC industry on the design, development and manufacture of future IT innovations. Together with its business partners and its team members around the world, ECS is ready to provide a rich variety of new products and great services to its customers in the years to come.

For many years, ECS has been making complex design simple and simply designed products smart. The company engineered smart ideas into unique products while keeping the design simple. Its Simply Smart philosophy in design helped ECS won over 150 awards and recognitions worldwide. Today, the design philosophy has evolved, extended and become a part of the company's corporate culture. Generating smart ideas to simplify work for increasing productivity has become an everyday task at ECS. It is through this practice, the company believes it can continue to bring its customers the best products and services.

Simply Smart