A few weeks ago, we took a look at the Gigabyte G45 solution. Today, we take a look at a less sophisticated, down to earth  board from ECS based on the same chipset - Intel G45 with ICHR10

The ECS G45T-M2 features Intel® G45 and ICH10 chipsets, by supporting FSB1333 and DDR2 800 with 4 DIMMs, providing great performance. Moreover, G45T-M2 capable graphics integrates Intel® GMA X4500HD graphic engine, supports superior HD playback and Vista Premium Eligible with DX10 expansion. Furthermore, G45T-M2 also provides ultimate graphics performance through PCI-E Gen2.0 x16 interface and DVI port, upgrades your visual experience. G45T-M2 comes packaged with a DVI-HDMI converter too for those who intend to use the board as the centre of their multimedia experience.

The board supports LGA775 socket for latest Intel Yorkfield/ Wolfdale/ Core 2 Quad/Core 2 Duo / Pentium Dual-core (E21xx series)/Celeron Dual Core/ Celeron 4xx processors FSB 1333/1066/800 MHz. It supports Dual-channel DDR2 memory architecture 4 x 240-pin DDR2 DIMM socket support up to 16GB. Support DDR2 800/667 DDR2 SDRAM

The Integrated Intel Graphics Media Accelerator X4500HD ( GMA X4500HD ) supports DX10 and offers a Max Dynamic Video Memory : 1759MB (Vista) / 1GB (WinXP). It is able to decode AVC, H.264 at very low CPU utilisation rates.

The board comes with 1 x PCI Express x16 slot, 1 x PCI Express x1 slot, 2 x PCI slots. For storage, it has 6 SATA II ports supported by ICH10. There is no IDE port on the mainboard. The audio uses RealTek ALC888VC 8ch High Definition audio CODEC and  Gigabit LAN uses RealTek 8111C GigaLAN controller.
 

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