ECS A875M-A

ECS A875M-A
VERDICT: A very basic motherboard with a handful of useful features.
FOR: Good layout, useful bundled application.
AGAINST: None .



The ECS A875M-A is for those who
need a motherboard with discrete
graphics sans bells and whistles
that high-end boards boast. It features
the AMD 870 chipset, which excludes
on-board graphics and off ers only a
single PCIe x16 slot for adding a graphics
card. Since the board features an ATX
design, ECS has utilized the length to
add expansion slots. There are two PCIe
x1 slots above the PCIe x 16 slots and
three PCI slots below. The good thing
about the way these are placed is that
you’ll lose only a single PCI slot if you
install a graphics card with a dual-slot
design. The SATA 6 Gb/s ports supported
by the SB850 southbridge are stacked
vertically at the bottom right corner for
routing the SATA cables conveniently.
Three USB headers supporting two
ports each, front audio and front panel
headers are placed right at the bottom
and are easily distinguishable by their
color. The rear panel is also well laid
out with eight USB ports and an eSATA
port clubbed in a group. A serial port
(RS-232) has been added whereVGA
and DVI outputs are usually present.
The A875M-A performed well, but active
cooling for the northbridge would have
helped keep the temperature low.



SPECIFICATIONS
Rs 4,140
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CPU socket: AM3; Chipset: AMD 870 + SB850; Memory:
DDR3-1333 (Max 32 GB); USB | SATA: 14 (6 via onboard
headers)| 5; Expansion slots: 1x PCIe x16, 2x
PCIe x1 and 3x PCI; Audio: 7.1 channel; LAN: Gigabit.