ECS L7SOM
by Anna Filatova
01/07/2002 | 07:03 PM
Elitegroup, which is a close partner of some "alternative" chipset manufacturers, announced today a new mainboard based on the fresh Socket A integrated solution from SiS supporting DDR SDRAM: SiS740. We could have called this mainboard the world’s first solution based on this chipset, if Elitegroup hadn’t been so fast: a little bit before that PC Chips, which is a part of Elitegroup, actually, announced a similar solution (see here).
And now a few more words about the novelty from ECS. The mainboard on SiS740 is called L7SOM. It is designed in MicroATX form-factor and supports all Socket A CPUs. The mainboard has a built-in SiS315 graphics core, which means that L7SOM will become a low-cost integrated solution with hardware T&L unit onboard. Of course, ECS L7SOM will not be able to compete with nForce based mainboards, but we shouldn’t forget then that it will be twice as cheap as nForce based solutions.
The mainboard will be equipped with 2 184-pin DIMM slots for PC2100/PC1600 DDR SDRAM. Also there will be 3 PCI slots, a CNR slot and an integrated Realtek PCI network controller. the board will also support AC’97 sound, 2 USB ports and some opportunities for successful CPU overclocking. Note that L7SOM will have no AGP slot.