ECS KA3 MVP Extreme AM2 board (ATi Xpress 3200) Review Intro 2/5
Bluetooth 13 June 2006

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The board comes with 2 PCI, 2 PCIex16, 1 PCIex1 slots. On the top left you would see audio codec, Realtek Fast Ethernet controller, Agere GbE PHY chip. Towards the centre you will see the clk gen and the MOSFETs which are cooled down with the fan enclosed within the green duct. At the centre of the mainboard is the ATi RD580 chipset.

At the bottom left, you will see the 6 SATA II ports, 1 IDE channel and 4 SATA II ports are supported by the south bridge and another 2 SATA II and 1 IDE channel are supported by the Jmicron JMB363 chip. Near the PCI slot is the VIA 1394 controller chip with headers for it in orange and 3 USB headers in yellow. On the right are 4 channels of DDR2 slots supporting DDR2-533/667/800 modules.

The back panel consists of PS/2 Keyboard and Mouse, 1 COM port, 4 USB ports, S/PDIF coaxial, 1 Fast Ethernet + 1 GbE and 7.1 ch audio ports.

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