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ECS PF5 Extreme

A competitively priced motherboard

Price: £89
Manufacturer: ECS



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Overall: A well-priced board with plenty of useful features


Simon Crisp, Personal Computer World 05 Dec 2005

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At first glance, the PF5 Extreme from ECS looks like a basic, featureless board. But don’t be deceived by the amount of free purple PCB space.

The board is built around Intel’s Socket 775 and 945P Express chipset and supports 1,066, 800 and 533MHz FSB CPUs, two x16 PCI Express graphics slots, up to 4GB of DDR2 memory, Serial ATA Raid and high-definition audio.

The two PCI Express graphics slots let you attach up to four displays via two separate cards. The locking latch for both slots is small and, if you use large cards, almost inaccessible.

Considering the number of features, ECS has priced the PF5 Extreme very competitively.

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