Computer Gaming Hardware

With the NVIDIA geforce 9300/9400 is more of the cheaper version of the nForce series with the 780i and the 790i Ultra being one of the high-end board supporting the three-way and two-way SLI, wit the 730i going for the budget NVIDIA boards, with built-in, dedicated graphics card in the North-Bridge. With this going against AMD’s 790GX and Intel’s own, G45 chipsets, the 9300/9400 or for short, 730i, is for the mid-range boards that host an integrated graphics.

With Integrated chipsets going in the market for suitable cheaper alternatives to most of the high-end board with the need of a long and power hungry graphics, ECS with the 730i chipset, is a black edition of their boards, that sport a Black colour PCB, with the trademark of the company, by targeting the enthusiast with a shallow pockets to spend on a computer. With ECS, on a 730i can in some be a better alternative to Intel’s own, G45 series. The 730i, sporting the 9300/9400 chipset with no separate North and South bridge chips, with the integrated graphics in the gold plated copper heat sink that support and play any type of Hi-def movies and encoding, and pure-video technology, for smooth a video play without the reliability of a expansion graphics.

ECS with their $103 board price, is not bad for the starters, with the same colour and design layout in many of their products, The micro-ATX form factor cannot sometimes considered as high-end for some, but for the budget and a case that is too small to fit a Full-ATX, this can be it. With one square Heat-sink spreaders is just enough to cool with out a noise in the chipset, and the maximum memory, is up to 32GB in four slots of RAM is enough for good load times in applications, especially on the rendering video side.

While the design of the board and the layout, going the four memory slots with dual channel memory and the support of DDR2, slots that are two separate good for those bulky heat-sinks and well away from the graphics card. And with the CPU having only four phase power regulator, which, in-turn not good for those overclocking and a stable system, for the rest is a single PCIex slot for adding any NVIDIA 9500 to 9600GT graphics and also enabling for a hybrid SLI with the integrated graphics. The back panel ports are to have are six USB ports, one VGA pot and no sight of a DVI port for any large bandwidth to the screen and also constricted to the standard definition of the VGA port, and also the sighting of not one but many old electrolyte capacitors, just enough of the board the specs go with six SATA and no eSATA ports and are well on top of the graphics port. And there is the two PS/2 and also Realtek audio chips for 7-1 audio decoding.

For most boards, with only the intensions of making a media PC but don’t care of the flaws, and goes for a dead cheap board form NVIDIA, ECS can one of these, there are some form ASUS and coming up the Gigabyte version of the 9300/730i, you would better just sit and watch.