Motherboard Review: ECS GF7050VT-M5

ECS GF7050VT-M5
Value motherboard with 45nm processors support

nVidia MCP73V is the right choice for people who want to build value class PC. ECS have launched GF7050VT-M5 motherboard that use this chipset.

ECS GF7050VT-M5 support 45nm processors with 1333MHz FSB. It use onboard graphic card GeForce 7050 combined with 610i chipset. 610i controlled 1 PATA port and 4 SATA ports. The SATA ports already support SATA RAID 0 (stripping) and 1 (mirroring). Not bad for value class motherboard.

This motherboard still have some old-fashioned features like serial port (COM) and 10/100Mbps ethernet port. It only have 6 channels audio.

There's no special features of this motherboard. Just like other value class motherboard from ECS. Not so fast, but stable. Maybe the only added value of this motherboard is Core 2 Quad processors support.

Specification
ECS GF7050VT-M5
Processor Type: Intel Pentium 4, Pentium Celeron, Pentium D, Core 2 Duo/Quad (Socket LGA7750
Chipset: nVidia MCP73V (GeForce 7050+nForce 610i)
Memory: 2 DDR2-400/533/667/800(oc) single channels 4 GB max
Graphics Card: 1x PCI Express x16
Expansion Slot: 1xpCIe x1, 2x PCI
Storage: 4x SATA, 1x PATA, 1xFDD
RAID: SATA RAID 0,1
Sound Chip: VIA VT1708A (6 channels)
LAN Chip: Atheros AR8012 (10/100Mbps)
I/O: 1x PS/2 Keyboard
1x PS/2 Mouse
1x D-Sub VGA
1x Serial COM
4x USB 2.0
1x LAN
1x 3in1 audio

TEST RESULT
Sysmark 2007 Preview
Rating: 145
SiSoft Sandra 2007
Dhrystone ALU: 26945 MIPS
Video Encoding: 11 minutes 14 seconds
Audio Encoding: 2 minutes 5 seconds
PCMark 2005 (1280x1024): 5066 PCMarks
3dMark 2006 (1280x1024): 361 3DMarks (onboard vga) / 4360 3DMarks (ASUS EN8600GT)
Doom 3 (1024x768 high quality): 14,4 fps (onboard vga) / 132,2 fps (ASUS EN8600GT)
Maximum FSB: 266 MHz

Testing Platform:
Intel Core 2 Extreme X6800 Processor, Kingston DDR2 KHX9600 2GB Memory, Asus GeForce 7800 GT VGA Card, Seagate Baracuda 7200RPM 80 GB Harddisk.

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