ECS G31T-M Review

Specifications

The ECS G31T-M review shows to be a great budget computer motherboard, but a little bit on the older end of things. The price is right, but you will have to decide for yourself if it is right for you.

Memory - DDR2 800 (4gb max) Dual Channel

SATA - 4 ports

PCI - 1x PCI-E x16, 1x PCI-E, 2x PCI

Socket - LGA 775

LAN - 100mb/s

Overview

The ECS G31T-M review shows this to be a very stable computer motherboard a large majority of the time. It can easily handle the clock speeds under regular work loads with problems. However, about 2-5% of the time you may receive a DOA device. This happens on every computer motherboard, but this one might be a little higher than some of the newer ones these days. Most of the time it is overclockers trying to get their money back for something they did wrong themselves.

The computer ram of the ECS G31T-M is ok for this micro atx motherboard. It is even smaller than most micro atx computer motherboards because it doesn't have too much too it. It does take your Intel Core 2 dual core and offer you some very good speed, but with 4gb of DDR2 800 ram you can only get as far as the front door when it comes to usable speed. I did fine with 4gb of DDR2 800 computer ram in my old dell back in 2004, but you might want to invest in something that will work for you.

The ECS G31T-M review has the making of a great budget computer motherboard, but you may not want to push it too far when it comes to overclocking or using it for high end gaming or graphical design. It will lack in computer ram basically and their is nothing you can do about that. The computer cpu is not the best, but dual core should be able to do what most people need their computers for.

Price

You can purchase the ECS G31T-M for around $45 from an online retailer. You will not find this at a local retailer and it is slowly falling out of lists online so get this one while it is still around!

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