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In what seems to be a ploy to sway the consumer, most every product today comes with an excessive listing of features, often dwindling down to the trivialities, a method which seems to often leave the unknowing seekers of the best purchasing whoever has a longer list. In that spirit, we've a fresh list of all the motherboard's features, kindly and conveniently provided by ECS themselves. Let's take a look.

Features
In short, all of the features that you expect from your typical motherboard in the modern day. One thing to note, though, is if you want to use 4GB of memory, you'll have to procure heinously expensive (and usually dangerously slow) 2GB sticks of memory, to which ECS guarantees no compatibility. Heck, the qualified memory section of the manual was dangerously short (try three sets of ram tested), though any memory that can operate at 400, 533 or 667MHz with 1.8V should be fine.
Coming in hand with the features of the motherboard, of course, are the specifications. Rather than be plastered about the box, as are the features, these are often left to be discovered, either by the user, or via the clever use of the web. For our purposes though, a quick look into mobot should sate any desires.
| ECS 945G-M3 (1.0b) Spec Sheet |
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| Part Number | 945G-M3 (1.0b) |
| Manufacturer | ECS |
| Price Check | Find Best Price |
| Downloads | BIOS Drivers Manuals |
| Chipset | Intel 945G Express ICH7 |
| North Bridge | Intel 82945G MCH |
| Socket | LGA775 Socket |
| Processor Types | Pentium 4, Pentium D, Celeron D |
| Number of CPUs | 1 |
| Front Side Bus | 1066/800/533MHz |
| Memory Type | DDR2 |
| Memory Channels | Dual |
| Maximum Memory | 2GB |
| External Graphics | PCI Express x16 |
| IGP | Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 950 |
| South Bridge | Intel 82801GB ICH7 |
| Audio | 8-channel |
| IDE | 100/66/33 |
| SCSI | None |
| SATA | 3.0 GB/s |
| RAID | None |
| LAN | 10/100/1000 |
| Firewire | IEEE 1394a |
| USB | USB 2.0 |
| Expansion Slots | |
| BIOS | AMI |
| Form Factor | microATX |
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Rating and specs aside, it's a good time to get onto the board itself, which we'll promptly do... On the next page.