ECS KN1 Extreme : Review

Quote: The KN1 Extreme is ECS’s newest motherboard introduction for the Athlon64 line of processors. Centered around the NVIDIA nForce4 Ultra chipset, the board features full support for the entire Athlon64 socket 939 processor line, including the dual processor X2 line, DDR type SDRAM modules operating in Dual Channel mode up to speeds of 400MHz officially, as well as PCI Express x16 based video cards operating in single card mode. The KN1 Extreme was designed to be a feature complete solution, requiring a minimal amount of components for a functioning system: Athlon64 socket 939 based CPU, DDR memory, PCI Express video card, drives, and PSU. The following components are included in the KN1 Extreme’s design: 2 IDE ATA-133 ports and 4 SATA II ports (RAID 0, 1, and 0+1 capable) on the NVIDIA RAID controller; 1 IDE ATA-133 port and 2 SATA 150 ports (RAID 0, 1, and 0+1 capable) on the SIS RAID controller; 10 USB 2.0 capable ports (4 in rear panel, and 3 onboard headers supporting 2 ports each); 2 IEEE 1394 capable ports (2 onboard headers supporting 1 port each); 1 NVIDIA Gigabit Ethernet port in rear panel with integrated hardware Firewall support; 1 Realtek 10/100 Ethernet port in the rear panel; Realtek 6-channel audio codec featuring S/PDIF optical and component output ports; and PS/2 and serial port support in the rear panel.

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