ECS KA1 MVP Extreme

One of the latest motherboards to support Crossfire is ECS’ KA1 MVP Extreme.

Built around AMD’s Socket 939, the KA1 MVP uses ATI’s RD480 Northbridge and SB450 Southbridge combination. While both bridges are passively cooled, there is a cooling fan and duct keeping the voltage regulation circuitry cool.

It’s well laid out but there are a couple of niggles. The Northbridge is very close to the CPU socket, so you may struggle fitting a third-party cooler.

Meanwhile, the positioning of the main Sata ports could cause conflict with larger graphics cards. And the locking latches for the two x16 PCI graphic card slots are so small they cause a problem when removing any cards.

See also:

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ECS 915-A

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