ECS: Two New Mainboards on Intel 815EP Chipset

by Anna Filatova
01/10/2001 | 04:57 AM

Elitegroup Computer Systems (ECS) today announced the release of the P6IPA and P6IPM mainboards, featuring the Intel 815EP chipset. Here are some more details:

• P6IPA. This is an ATX, Socket370 board for Celeron FC-PGA processors with 66MHz FSB, or FC-PGA Pentium III processors with FSB speeds to 133MHz. It is based on Intel 815EP chipset. The chipset features ATA/100 support, AC97 audio/modem interface and ITE LPC I/O (IT8712F) for hardware monitoring. There are 3 DIMM slots that support up to 512MB of PC100/133 SDRAM. Expansion options are provided by way of 6 PCI slots, an AGP slot and a CNR slot. The I/O template on the back includes 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 2 PCI IDE connectors that support up to four IDE devices (PIO mode 4, DMA mode 2, ATA 66/100). P6IPA comes with regular ECS ‘trimmings’ such as the Magic Setting (allows overclockers to adjust the CPU frequency without fiddling around with setting up jumpers), LAN/modem wake-up (wakens the system if there is an incoming fax, voice mail message or data transfer request), suspend to RAM and keyboard power on features.
• P6IPM. This is a MicroATX version of the P6IPA. There are two DIMM slots that support up to 512MB of PC100/133 SDRAM. For add-on cards, there are 2 PCI slots, an AGP slot, an ISA slot and a CNR slot. Other specs and features are the same as for the P6IPA.