ECS K7S6A (1)
Admin 30 Jan 2002
ECS K7S5A is a success with it's low
price/performance ratio. Although there were lots of users complaining about
stability problems. Most of it was resolved by the helpful readers in our ECS
sector.
As always, ECS is always one of the first to
launch their boards based on new chipsets. K7S6A is just one of the newest
products in the market featuring SiS745 chipset. While SiS745 does not differ
much from the Sis735 except firewire and DDR333 support, K7S6A did not implement
the Firewire feature on board. The main difference between K7S6A and K7S5A is
the BIOS. On the K7S6A, it uses the Award BIOS and includes settings for
tweaking the Vcore voltage and fsb. The multiplier can be adjusted using a
jumper.
In our tests, we used the AMD Athlon XP1500+
and ran it under the tightest RAM timings we could. It went through all the
rigorous tests at default speed. In fact, we stress the system further by
pushing it to 150Mhz and above. Before we continue, lets take a look at the
package. It comes standard with a user's manual, FDD and HDD cables, a support
CDROM. The package didn't include enough jumpers for selecting the
multiplier.
Below are the specifications of the board. The
subsequent pages will be the gallery followed by benchmark results including
SuperPI, Q3, DroneZ etc.
K7S6A
mainboard is an ATX mainboard that uses a 4-layer printed circuit board
and measures 220 mm x 304 mm. The mainboard features a Socket 462 that
accommodates AMDSiS® Athlon/Duron
processors supporting frontside bus (FSB) speeds up to 100/133 MHz.
The K7S6A incorporates the SiSSiS®745
Northbridge and South-bridge chipsets which combine support for the new
high-bandwidth Double Data Rate (DDR) 333
SDRAM, and the AC 97 audio codec.
Note: SDRAM provides 800 MB/s or 1
GB/s data transfer depending on whether the bus is 100 MHz or 133 MHz.
Double Data Rate SDRAM (DDR SDRAM) doubles the rate to 1.6 GB/s or 2.1
GB/s or 2.7 GB/s by transferring data on both the rising and falling edges
of the clock. DDR SDRAM uses additional power and ground lines and
requires 184-pin DIMM modules rather than the 168-pin DIMMs used by SDRAM. |
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PROCESSORS
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 462 pin
Socket A supports AMD® Athlon (K7) processors
 Full series of Athlon XP/Athlon/Duron
processors
Supports 100/133 MHz frontside bus (FSB) |
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CHIPSET
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SiS®
745 System Chipset
Super I/O and LPC - ITE8705F
System Hardware Monitor: Built-in ITE8705F
AC97 Audio Codec |
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MEMORY
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Three
184-pin DDR
DIMM sockets to support
Three 2.5V DDR SDRAM
(DDR266/DDR200) or
Two 2.5V DDR SDRAM
(DDR333)
Maximum: 3GB |
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SYSTEM BIOS
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Award
2Mb Flash EEPROM
Supports Plug and Play 1.0A, APM 1.2, Multi Boot,
DMI
Full Support for ACPI revision 1.0 specification |
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I/O INTERFACE
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Supports
Plug and Play function
PS/2 keyboard and PS/2 mouse connectors
Two USB Ports
One - EPP/ECP mode parallel port
Two - 16550 high-speed serial I/O ports
Audio Ports (Line-in, Line-out, Mic-in, CD-in and
game port)
Dual PCI IDE interfaces - support four IDE devices (PIO
mode 4, DMA Mode 2, Ultra DMA 33/66/100)
Supports 360K~2.88M Byte, 3 Mode FDDs or LS120
ATX Power Supply Connector
ports, Headers and Others:
IrDA Cable header
Four additional USB ports
(USB2/3 or LUSB1/2)
Two CD-In headers
Front Panel MIC/Line-Out header
HDD LED, ACPI MSG LED, Reset
Switch, Power Switch headers
CPU and Case Fan headers
LAN Card Wake Up/Internal Modem
Ring Wake Up headers |
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RTC & BATTERY
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SiS®
745 included 256 bytes of CMOS SRAM
With CMOS SRAM hardware clear jumper |
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EXPANSION SLOTS
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5 PCI slots, 1 4X
AGP slot, 1 CNR slot
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FORM FACTOR
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| ATX
(304mm*220mm), 4 Layers |
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