Friday, 16 May 2014

Motherboard: Mean Macho Machine? The ECS Intel Z97-MACHINE

After a few rounds of looking at the web photos of the Z97 motherboards pushed out recently, I think ECS has actually produced a real fine looking model with beautifully restrained aesthetics this round. It is a mainly flat black affair with relatively subtle gold trimmings on the heatsinks and with white lettering on the PCB, very tasteful.



It simply looks so much better than their previous Z87 efforts which imo, were just over the top.

















You can check out the official specs on this page

ECS Web Site > Z97-MACHINE (V1.0)







Packaging

With the kind help of the good guys, I managed to get hold of an early sample today as they rolled fresh out of the factory. As before, the retail box packaging is a very attractive glossy affair with high contrast printing















Printed Specs

Uses the Intel I218-V Gigabit Fast Ethernet Controller but strange enough, ECS humbly omits this detail











to be contd...





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