The Tech Zone Review of the ECS KA3 MVP Motherboard

[Jason]

"ECS has made some amazing strides in the last few years. They've gone from
making low cost, low performance motherboards to being an serious contender
in the enthusiast market. ECS has a solid performing motherboard with the
KA3 MVP. This motherboard has all the feature that most hardware enthusiast
would crave. The only downside to the KA3 is something that is common to all
ECS motherboards - they're not very good overclockers. The KA3 does improve
on the KA1 in the overclocking department, but only slightly. However, at
the price KA3 MVP sells for, you are getting a great bang for your
performance buck."

http://www.thetechzone.com/photo/data//515/1951ecs3.jpg
ECS Motherboard (http://www.thetechzone.com/?m=show&id=640)
Looks like a good stable board but not a good overclocker. I see less and less people overclocking due to the power of today's CPU's and even GPU's.

Begs the question Is overclocking dead?

[Jason]

Please don't tell me that someone put a motherboard on a carpet floor. Anyone want to rate the chance that that motherboard is now in static hell?

[Tyler]

:rofl:


I don't think it's dead really, there are more overclocking related products out there than ever before. Though I agree it isn't as neccessary as it once was, especially for the higher end chips.

In my opinion, when it comes to the high end chips and video cards it's not even worth overclocking. However when it comes to lower end chips then have at it, because sometimes it can be just too easy.