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Softpedia BIOS of the Day 02/13/2012

Nothing bad happened today here, but the number 13 might have influenced the rather small number of BIOSes we're listing today. The newest is the 0701 BIOS version for the acclaimed Asus Eee PC 1025C. This 10.1"netbook is powered by a Cedar Trail, dual-core, 1.86 GHz CPU and is expected to deliver FullHD multim...

13 February 2012
11:00 GMT

ECS BR95IIX Compact Desktop with Sandy Bridge CPUs Visits the FCC

Even though they aren’t as popular as its motherboards, ECS also builds and sells a series of compact desktop PCs designed around various Intel platforms, such as the ECS BR95IIX that recently popped up online featuring Intel Sandy Bridge processors. The compact computer, which resembles a nettop more than a f...

8 February 2012
09:45 GMT

Epson, Onkyo, Viewsonic & Others to Build Cheaper Ultrabooks

Wanting to venture into the Ultrabooks market, Epson, Onkyo, Viewsonic and a series of other smaller companies have reportedly contracted Taiwanese laptop makers to build such ultrathin notebooks for them, which could help drop the starting prices of these devices to $599 (456 EUR). According to unnamed sources cite...

6 February 2012
14:01 GMT

ECS Makes Disabled SAS Ports on Intel X79 Chipset Work

It appears that the seventh and eighth core in the Sandy Bridge-E central processing units weren't the only things in the latest CPU/motherboard platform that Intel disabled. ECS decided to give its X79 motherboards support for four SAS (serial-attached SCSI) ports wired to the PCH. Of course, it would be mor...

18 January 2012
02:40 GMT

CES 2012: ECS Unveils Mainstream H77 Black Series Motherboard

Since it dropped by the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Nevada, ECS didn't bring just one product, but several, one of which is the mainstream H77 Black Series motherboard. We have already talked about the Z77H2-AX Black Deluxe motherboard that Elitegroup Computer Systems brought over to CES 2012. It ...

12 January 2012
11:00 GMT

CES 2012: ECS’ Intel Z77 Ivy Bridge Motherboard Also Shows Up

With a little less than three months to go until Intel launches its Ivy Bridge processors, motherboard makers have started showcasing their solutions for these upcoming CPUs, ECS just presenting the Z77H2-AX Black Deluxe board during CES 2012.The motherboard takes a lot of its design cues from the company’s exi...

11 January 2012
08:58 GMT

Drivers for ECS H61H2-A2 Deluxe Board Available

We're offering you the latest drivers and BIOS for one of ECS' newest additions to the LGA1155 motherboards, the H61H2-A2 Deluxe. The H61H2-A2 Deluxe is a board created to accommodate the second-generation SandyBridge Core i7 processors, while being able to run with the rest of the Core family, as well. T...

6 January 2012
04:01 GMT

Free BIOS Picks of the Day 01/05/2012

Here's a new pick for the fifth day of the year, comprising the usual HP notebook BIOSes and no less than four items for new motherboards from Asrock, Gigabyte and ECS.It's nice to see ECS active again in this field; on the other hand, Asrock raises the bar with another two new releases, while Gigabyte come...

5 January 2012
11:08 GMT

ECS Launches Wi-Bridge Wireless Display Adapter

Looks like people who want to play films from their PC on their TVs but don't or can't move that big thing around, or want to have a laptop close if that's what they're using, can easily stream things to the HDTV once they get the new ECS Wi-Bridge.Basically, this is a small, portable Wi-Fi wirele...

23 December 2011
15:31 GMT

Softpedia's BIOS Pick of the Day

Another day brings a new assortment of BIOSes listed on Softpedia. Today, we are offering you BIOS for HP and Dell notebooks, ECS, Asrock, Asus and Gigabyte motherboards.It's nice to see that ECS have managed to release a BIOS update for one of their three X79 motherboards. While other manufacturers have already...

19 December 2011
11:05 GMT

ECS Launches Its LGA 2011 Black X79 Motherboard Series

Now that Intel's Sandy Bridge-E CPUs has become official, motherboard makers have started launching their LGA 2011 solutions for these processors, ECS just announcing the Black X79 Series of Intel X79 boards.The Black X79 Series is comprised of two LGA 2011 motherboards, the X79R-AX Black Extreme and X79R-AX Bla...

14 November 2011
03:37 GMT

ECS Outs Intel H61 Motherboard with SATA 6Gbps and USB 3.0 Support

Lately, more and more hardware manufacturers have started to launch USB 3.0 and SATA 6Gbps compliant LGA 1155 motherboards based on the H61 chipset and the latest to do so is ECS, which has just introduced the H61H2-A2 Black Series board.Since the H61 platform controller hub (PCH) doesn't come with support for U...

1 November 2011
10:23 GMT

ECS Readies the X79R-AX Black Extreme Motherboard

ECS has already unveiled some motherboards with support for the Sandy Bridge-E series of CPUs, but that doesn't mean it is ready to stop, as one latest model made it more than clear. The folks over at VR-Zone were able to get an early look at the X79R-AX Black Extreme motherboard form Elitegroup Computer Syste...

31 October 2011
03:45 GMT

ECS Also Unveils the X79R-AX Black Deluxe LGA 2011 Board

Together with the Black Extreme version of the X79R-AX we detailed at the start of this week, ECS also unveiled a much simpler version of its LGA 2011 motherboard that is known as the X79R-AX Black Deluxe.The board takes a lot of its design cues from its older brother and it sports the same four DIMM slots that are p...

26 October 2011
11:56 GMT

ECS X79R-AX Motherboard Not Through Showing Off Yet

People keeping track of the news probably saw the ECS X79R-AX motherboard, but what they may not have seen is the newest photo of it where the company dares onlookers to say which of the two figures in it shines most, or sparkles in this case. We aren't going to overload you with a big list of technical specs...

24 October 2011
05:21 GMT

ECS' High-End X79R-AX Black Series LGA 2011 Motherboard Pictured

Even though ECS wasn't present at this year's Intel Developer Forum, this hasn't stopped the company from showcasing their own motherboard solution for LGA-2011 processors based on the X79 Express PCH, which is known as the X79R-AX. The motherboard features the characteristic ECS look and it sport f...

16 September 2011
08:11 GMT

ECS G11 All-in-One PC Builds on Intel's AiO Standard

Coming to actually offer a palpable embodiment of a certain Intel project, the new all-in-one PC from Elitegroup Computer Systems (ECS) has been formally launched.One of the big issues that all-in-one systems are usually faced with is the fact that their prices are considerable, especially compared to regular deskto...

24 August 2011
04:04 GMT

ECS A55 Motherboards Formalized, Mainstream Specs

To serve existing AMD Apus, and in anticipation of those yet to come, motherboard makers have been promoting F1 motherboards, and it looks like ECS decided to offer some A55 platforms.Since Advanced Micro Devices has been so proactive in its efforts to get its Fusion chips to as many users as possible, motherboard m...

9 August 2011
10:12 GMT

Three ECS AMD A75 Motherboard Officially Unleashed

As was being expected from about two weeks ago, hardware maker ECS has gotten around to making the formal introduction of its very own set of mainboards with support for AMD's newest APUs. With AMD Llano APUs now on sale, and with a bunch of supporting motherboards already out and about, it is not surprising...

27 June 2011
09:33 GMT

ECS A75F-A AMD Llano Motherboard Gets Picture Preview

ECS was one of the first AMD partners to officially announce their range of FM1 motherboards for the upcoming Llano APUs and today we get to take a closer look at one of the company's most advanced solutions built on the Hudson D3 chipset, the A75F-A Black Series. Just as all the other ECS Black Series produc...

7 June 2011
05:10 GMT

ECS Believes Intel's Z68 Chipset Won't Be Around for Much Longer

According to hardware maker ECS, Intel's recently released Z68 chipset for Sandy Bridge motherboards won't have such a long shelf-life as it will be soon replaced by other, more powerful, platform controller hubs. The statement was made by an ECS official that talked with the TechRadar publication at the...

1 June 2011
16:11 GMT

ECS A990FXM-A AMD Bulldozer Motherboard Becomes Official

ECS has showcased a wide number of motherboards at this year's Computex fair and one of the most impressive models to make its appearance is the Black Extreme A990FXM-A AM3+ board for AMD Bulldozer processors. Just as its name implies, the A990FXM-A is built using AMD's most powerful chipset in the 900-s...

1 June 2011
07:27 GMT

ECS Showcases LGA 2011 Sandy Bridge-E Motherboard at Computex 2011

With more than three months to go until Intel makes official its high-performance Sandy Bridge-E processors and X79 chipset, ECS has showcased an LGA-2011 motherboard, based on the upcoming PCH, which is known as the X79R-A. The motherboard features the characteristic ECS look and it sport four DIMM slots that are...

30 May 2011
06:11 GMT

ECS A990FXM-A AMD Bulldozer Motherboard Leaked

With less than three weeks left until AMD makes official its first processors based on the Bulldozer architecture, more and more motherboards built around 900-series chipsets make their appearance in the wild and the latest to join the party is the ECS A990FXM-A. Just as its name implies, the A990FXM-A is built us...

23 May 2011
05:16 GMT

ECS Joins In on NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 Customization

Already has NVIDIA and its various partners let loose the newest 500 series video controller, and it looks like ECS has finally decided to join in on the fun, having unveiled the ECS GeForce GTX 560.The IT market may have already had the Geforce GTX 560 Ti graphics adapter running around, but NVIDIA decided to provi...

19 May 2011
09:03 GMT

ECS A75F-A Black Series AMD Llano Motherboard Gets Pictured

Announced just yesterday, ECS' top of the line A75F-A Black Series motherboard for AMD Llano accelerated processing units (APUs) has just been pictured, making this the second production FM1 board to be reveled. The first FM1 retail motherboard to be pictured was designed by a Chinese manufacturer that goes b...

18 May 2011
02:18 GMT

AMD Readies the Fastest Athlon II X2 to Date, the 3.5GHz 275

Together with a wide series of processors based on the Daned and Propus cores, AMD is also preparing to launch its fastest dual-core Athlon II CPU to date, the Athlon II X2 275 that will be clocked at 3.5GHz. The processor wasn't made official by AMD, but it has been uncovered by the XFastest publication in t...

2 May 2011
07:04 GMT

ElitePad Intel Oak Trail Tablet from ECS Tested by FCC

It looks like the word elite is showing up as part of IT product names more and more often lately, this once having landed in the moniker for a certain ECS slate that the FCC appears to have tested.The word 'elite ' has again reared its neck on the IT market, and it has nothing to do with the new mobile wo...

13 April 2011
08:00 GMT

ECS Intros Premium Support Service for North American Customers

ECS North America has just announced that the company has designed and built a website for product registration and enhanced technical & customer support which offers its Black Series motherboard and graphics card customers various advantages, including access to a unique 99-hour replacement service. The service i...

16 March 2011
10:17 GMT

ECS and ASRock Both Suffer from Badly Falling Revenues in February

The problem that plagued all motherboards and notebooks based on Intel's original Cougar Point 6-Series chipset definitely had repercussions, as all motherboard makers, like ASRock and EMC in this case, suffered financial losses.The first quarter of any year, and the month of February in particular, usually pos...

11 March 2011
06:41 GMT

7-Inch Intel Oak Trail Windows 7 Tablet Showcased by ECS at CeBIT 2011

We've caught word a while ago about ECS' plans to showcase some interesting new tablets at CeBIT 2011, and sure enough, the company delivered on its promise, featuring several interesting such products on display. As Pocketables reports, one of the most interesting products the company showed within thei...

2 March 2011
02:13 GMT

ECS Readies to Start Shipping Revised B3 Stepping Sandy Bridge Motherboards

After Asus, Gigabyte and MSI, ECS has also announced that it will restart shipping Intel 6 series motherboards based on the B3 revision of the Cougar Point chipset that fixed all the issues encountered by the Santa Clara-based company with the 3Gbps SATA ports. The new motherboards can be distinguished from the ol...

1 March 2011
05:30 GMT

ECS Also Intros HDC-I2 Series of AMD Fusion Passively Cooled Motherboards

Yesterday ECS has announced a pair of AMD Fusion powered mini-ITX motherboards, but what the company failed to mention was that these models were also accompanied by two other similar boards which packed a slightly reduced feature set. Just as the ECS HDC-I series models which were launched before, the two mainboa...

25 February 2011
07:51 GMT

ECS Announces Its Entry Level H61-Based Sandy Bridge Motherboard Lineup

ECS has just made official its lineup of LGA 1155 H61-based motherboards which are destined to be used in entry-level Sandy Bridge systems, as the new boards feature integrated graphics as well as reduced prices when compared to other H67/P67 solutions. The new range includes six new motherboard models, four of th...

24 February 2011
06:00 GMT

ECS Prepares for CeBIT, Readies ElitePad Tablets

Now that February is nearing its own end and CeBIT is coming closer and closer, IT companies are, understandably, preparing for the expo, and ECS is among the ones who more recently gave some inkling as to their plans.Many tablets may have been unleashed during the 2011 MWC (Mobile World Congress) expo, but the stri...

22 February 2011
02:48 GMT

ECS Offers Refunds or Replacements to Users Affected by Intel's 6-Series Chipset SATA Bug

As most other motherboard manufacturers have done, ECS US has also announced its position regarding the SATA bug that affected Intel's Cougar Point chipset, the company offering its customers the option of choosing between a full refund and a product swap, once the new B3 revision PCH becomes available. For s...

4 February 2011
04:04 GMT

ECS Showcases Passively Cooled AMD Mainboard

Asus has managed to cause quite a stir with their passively cooled AMD Fusion powered motherboards, so I am sure that many will be interested in hearing that ECS is also interested in launching such a mainboard, the company just showcasing the HDC-I model that manages to run without requiring any fans. As many oth...

27 January 2011
06:36 GMT

ECS Adds Sandy Bridge Mini-ITX Motherboard to Its Lineup

As the mini-ITX form factor seems to be gaining in popularity, ECS has decided to design a compact LGA 1155 motherboard of its own, the company just announcing the H67H2-I that is based on Intel's H67 chipset and supports the second generation Core processors, code named Sandy Bridge.According to ECS, the H67H2-...

14 January 2011
08:47 GMT

ECS Intros New Black Deluxe H67H2-M Sandy Bridge Motherboard

In the last few years, ECS' Black series motherboards has become well renowned for their impressive feature list and low price, and now, the Taiwanese company is adding yet another member to its ever-growing family, the Black Deluxe H67H2-M that is built around Intel's H67 Express chipset. Just like most...

12 January 2011
08:54 GMT

ECS Bundles Norton Internet Security with its Motherboards

Since package deals often increase the number of people willing to buy a certain products, ECS figured it wouldn't hurt for its motherboards to bring along some security software, so it entered a deal with Symantec. Elitegroup Computer Systems (ECS) is a company known worldwide for its various hardware products...

27 December 2010
09:09 GMT

ECS to Demonstrate Tablets at CES, Android and Windows Both Planned

While some companies are making last-minute product launches, others are getting ready to make as good a show as possible at the upcoming CES expo, and ECS is one of those that aims to grab the attention of users looking for tablet PCs.By now, consumers will have learned that the media tablet market is here to stay,...

23 December 2010
06:01 GMT

ECS P67H2-A Black Extreme Sandy Bridge Motherboard Gets Video Preview

It seems like with every passing day we get more and more previews of future LGA 1155 Sandy Bridge motherboards, ECS being the latest company to join the party with its P67H2-A Black Extreme Edition offering that packs quite an interesting array of features. Sporting pretty much one of the coolest looks that I hav...

9 November 2010
13:51 GMT

ECS Regales AMD AM3 CPUs with the A890GXM-A2 Motherboard

While EVGA is busy showing off its X58 platform, Elitegroup Computer Systems has gone for the other side of the field and supplied AMD's AM3 CPUs with a new motherboard, the so-called A890GXM-A2.It seems that black PCBs (printed circuit boards) are becoming a sort of trend among high-end hardware now that ECS ...

5 October 2010
03:49 GMT

ECS Motherboard Combines NVIDIA and AMD Video Cards

With the impending arrival of Sandy Bridge CPUs, it makes sense that motherboard makers would announce platforms capable of supporting them, and ECS went a little farther and even added support for NVIDIA-AMD mixed graphics.Making a motherboard capable of mixing AMD and NVIDIA video cards was not possible until the ...

27 September 2010
08:18 GMT

ECS Sues Shuttle President Over Alleged Information Leaks

The IT industry has long been the site of a great many legal disputes, and while some of the ongoing ones appear to be nearing their conclusion, others sprout up to take their place, and the latest among them has just appeared, between ECS and Shuttle, over alleged information leaks.Over the years, certain company e...

23 August 2010
10:09 GMT

ECS Black Series P55H-AK Motherboard Aimed at Gamers

Even though it has already made an appearance at Computex 2010, in June, the high-grade Black Series P55H-AK motherboard has still not become available, but ECS (Elitegroup Computer Systems) decided it would at least offer an update on it and, thus, added its product page to its website.The motherboard is designed a...

10 August 2010
09:05 GMT

ECS Gives the GTX 460 a Massive Overclock

NVIDIA launched the GeForce GTX 460 today, and its partners ASUS, EVGA and Sparkle, among others, immediately followed up with custom models. These three definitely went off-script and offered factory overclocked models of the video boards, and Sparkle even brought out one with no less than a full 2GB of GDDR5. Never...

12 July 2010
09:32 GMT

8-Inch ECS E-Reader Bound for September

Tablets may have grabbed most of the spotlight at this year's Computex expo in Taipei, but a number of other gadgets still managed to shine through. E-readers, as one of the more rapidly growing product categories, had more than a few representatives eager to show off their worth. Acer's LumiRead is one exa...

5 June 2010
05:20 GMT

ECS Also Launches AMD 800-Based Motherboards

AMD's newest six-core central processing units have finally started shipping, which means that both enthusiasts and mainstream users alike can get a taste of what a hexacore PC feels like. Of course, such a thing would not be possible without a suitable platform. Since a mainstream six-core would be meaningless ...

26 April 2010
08:27 GMT

ECS Preps AMD 880G-Based Motherboard

End-users versed in the wiles of the media, especially if they haven't been mesmerized by the charm of the upcoming Sandy Bridge central processors from Intel, should know that AMD will expand its 800 Series of chipsets next week. Of course, this means that all the motherboard makers partnered with Advanced Micr...

21 April 2010
09:39 GMT


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