ECS Shows Off New Motherboards and GTX680 Black Series
ECS brought a new card and two of its recently announced motherboards to the Computex show floor.
ECS was at Computex last week with its newly announced GTX680 Black Series graphics card. The GTX680 packs a custom heatsink with two fans and five heatpipes, a little overclock for the GPU (1040MHz), and ECS Nonstop Certification, which indicates the card went through a series of stress tests to ensure reliability. In the rear there's two DVI dual-link, one HDMI port and a DisplayPort.
Also on show was the Z77 Black Extreme Series Golden Limited Edition motherboards. There's two models here, the Z77H2-A2X and the Z77H2-AX, both of which were officially announced back in April. The latter packs support for three PCI Express 3.0 x16 slots, while the Z77H-A2X supports two PCI Express 3.0 x16 slots as well as a mini PCI Express slot.
Both models also pack two PCI Express 2.0 slots, and two PCI slots to support older add-on cards. They both incorporate Mini PCIe for Smart Response, Smart Connect and Rapid Start technologies. The Z77H2-AX is equipped with eSATA x2 (6Gb) and SATA x6 (6Gb/s x4 + 3Gb/s x2), while the Z77H2-A2X has eSATA x1 (3Gb) with DVI output. Both the Z77H2-AX and Z77H2-A2X models offer Wireless LAN, Bluetooth, USB 3.0 x6 and USB 2.0 x6 support, 3-way Nvidia SLI or ATI CrossFire XTM support, EZ charger and 1 Gigabit LAN.
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SirDevon 9374378 said:"Both models also pack two PCI Express 2.0 slots"
You probably meant 3.0 ;)
I think it was supposed to read "PCI Express 2.0 x1 slots". They'd already mentioned the 3.0 x16's -
jankeke doron"Both models also pack two PCI Express 2.0 slots"You probably meant 3.0No, he states : "The latter packs support for three PCI Express 3.0 x16 slots, while the Z77H-A2X supports two PCI Express 3.0 x16 slots"Reply
So they support both PCI 3.0 and 2.0. -
dgingeri s3anisterTrust the Midas touch, ECS?Reply
I wouldn't care if it was solid 24k gold, I still wouldn't touch anything by ECS. -
doron SirDevonI think it was supposed to read "PCI Express 2.0 x1 slots". They'd already mentioned the 3.0 x16'sReply
Whoops, missed that. Thanks :)