ECS Elitegroup has announced new P6VPA2 DDR mainboard for Socket370/FC-PGA processors. It comes with the VIA Apollo Pro266 chipset. P6VPA2 equipped with three 184-pin 2.5v DDR SDRAM (DDR266/DDR200) sockets for a maximum of 3GB memory. Expansion options are provided by way of 5 PCI slots and 4X AGP, ACR and CNR slots.
The mainboard has a full set of I/O ports and connectors including plug and play function support, PS/2 keyboard and mouse connectors, a serial port, an EPP/ECP parallel port, audio jacks for microphone, line-in, line-out and CD-in and a game port. There are two PCI IDE interfaces that support up to four IDE devices (PIO mode 4, DMA mode 2, ATA 33/66/100). There are six USB ports, of which four are connectors on board.
Rounding off this great board are the regular ECS extras including LAN/modem wake-up (wakens the system if there is an incoming fax, voice mail message or data transfer request), suspend to RAM, keyboard power on and hardware monitoring features. A BIOS with Vcore adjustment is under development and will be available with later revisions of the board.