Elite ECS K7S5A PRO

I have use this mobo since Apr 2003, i think this is a durable mobo, especially when i update its BIOS using HoneyX Bios, i never have any problem eventhough random power outtage struck my place for more than 100 times in a year without ups protection, i can even play games using agp 8x vga (i try both ati x1300 and gforce 6200 on 4x agp slot) smoothly and no compability issues whenever i paired a different memory stick brand (i paired 1 gb kingston with 256 visipro) its still stable. Up to now (2010) im very pleased and satisfied my this motherboard.

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I bought mine for a measley 20 bucks, it didn't and still doesn't have a battery on the board, it was pirated off of the board before I got to it, but, so long as I don't have a power outage, or unplug it from the wall, it keeps just fine, took a while to get the drivers for it, but I burned a disk when I finally found them that worked, other than that, it has been a great board, outperforms this Acer I'm typing on now(my wife's puter) for gaming and number crunching, and it has 3X the RAM and processor!

Am currently replacing the fans in my puter tower for the 3rd time, this board does get a little warm, but it rocks!

Found this motherboard in a battered case in a scrapyard, got it for free, brought it home, chucked it in a case i installed an Athlon 1500, 512 meg of pc133 and 2 x 20 gb hdd, and it worked.!!!!

It was really easy to setup and find all the drivers for it too.

It's now running a cable modem to belkin "N" wireless, wireless printer and fax, its not put a foot wrong so far, not a bad bit of recycling, eh.

The Elite ECS K7S5A PRO is the best board i have ever had.. Bought it 7 year ago added some RAM.. works great ..running window xp now (was runnign 98 at the time).. no problem finding drivers.. No bad points that I can think of.

K7S5a is from my own experience has been totally reliable. I have run mine for 6 years now, having flashed my Bios to upgrade it once, and the Motherboard Drivers once. All PCI slots have been completely reliable, as have all USB and serial ports. I run a pair of Seagate 120 gig drives and a LaCie 500 gig external, using two sticks of DDR 3200 Corsair Memory. Mine is housed in a Cooler Master TAC-T01 Wave Master Aluminum Case, providing the Board and case contents with plenty of air flow. Temperature has never been an issue. Contrary to some reviews of this board, I've used a Sound Blaster Audio Card, and an Invidia G Force FX 5200 video card flawlessly since I built the case up. I've added a PCI USB Card for more USB ports, and upgraded my Athelon XP1800 chip from 1.8 gig to 2.0 gigs. And I did place a Cooler Master X Dream chip cooler fan on the heat sync. The Wavemaster case provides twin 80mm intake fans, I installed a good temp controlled exhaust fan, and added a tripple fan hard drive cooling kit between my two CD drives simply as more air intake. Using also a System Bracket Fan, to help force air across the PCI Cards, the result is a good solid air flow through the case keeping the Video Card, and Chipsets all at reliable temps. In this environment the K7 Board has been remarkably reliable. And I would suggest it to anyone who needs a board of this generation of technology. It's not expensive, and is completely reliable. I have worked on machines who's K7 "clones" had to be replaced, while all the K7's I have seen so far simply work. Stick with Elite for your K7.

Absolutely reliable, used this board for over 4 years never had a problem easy to set up and never had to change a thing, have had to change my g card twice, cd/dvd roms twice and chip once but this board is still working! Well recommend Elite ECS K7S5A PRO/

I have been dealing with systems for about 9 years, and suddenly, within the past 2 years I have had this K7Pro Motherboard and I have "NO" problems with it whatsoever. Works really well with all AGP Processors installed. I am using a PC3200 DDR RAM in both DDR slots on this machine and flies! I don't know about you other guys who rate this product a "0" But I take care of it and it does run "Flawlessly" like the review stated above. It ' s all how you tweak the system and work with the software installed. Other than that, I rate this board a flat "10".

I have seen a lot of Computers in the past 9 years, and in those 9 years I have seen PC's running with larger Hard Disks, more memory and a faster Processor, and what seems funny thing is, that even newer PC's sold in stores would not compare to the K7 Pro Motherboard from ECS.

There is to me, "NO ARGUMENT ABOUT THAT!".

There are actually to different versions of this motherboard one with the C-Media and the other with a soundblaster compatable sound chip, actually when I installed XP Home on my pc it tried to install the C-Media software which is strange as there is actually no C-Media chipset on the motherboard in my pc even though it is a K7S5A motherboard.

Good but tries to install a sound driver for a sound chip that is not on the board. I can't actually remove the C-Media driver of my machine because on reboot I get the cannot find the C-Media cpi extension of my control panel.

Although this MB is now out dated, it seems after reading the other comments that you either get a good one or a dud, sort of a 50/50 thing. I've read elsewhere that flashing the BIO's on it can kill this board and or cause all sorts of problems. i.e. "if it ain't broke don't mess with it! "

I love it, been running it for years now, for my business, and they have worked flawlesly.

The only thing wrong with it is user error, they are not dummy proof, if you hook it up right, run the right O.S. you will not have any issues with it.

I am still surprized by how well it has worked compared to my other boards ASUS, In the last two years I have had three ASUS fry on me.... Dont get me wrong I love ASUS, but I have had problems with them, and the like especially consitering the price I paid, as I bought them at frys electronics as board/cpu combos.

Not one crash, not one failer, nothing! works great with soundblaster live and pro. I even at first ran the built in sound, and vid, it worked great too. upgrading hasnt been an issue as well.

I currently have ASUS Nvidia, and ATI in them for graphics, no problems.

Various hard drives, still no problems.

I bought 12 of them, price was right, and I needed to replace the computers at my business overnight, as my business was broken into and the computers stolen.

For the bucks you pay, you cant go wrong with this board, just hook it up right.