This won't be of much interest to enthusiasts and overclockers, but there are all kind of buyers and budgets. The ECS P35T-A (reviewed at Legion Hardware) has the required settings available in the BIOS to achieve a decent overclock but, lacking a proper cooling system and adequate power regulation (it only incorporates a 4-phase power design), they are worth zero.

In case you aren't interested in overclocking, this could be your board. Performance is good and it doesn't show compatibility or stability issues. The audio and network solutions work. It has an eSATA port, four DDR2 DIMM slots, three PCI slots, a single PCI x1 slot, two PCI x16 slots, an IDE port and six SATA ports.

The ECS P35T-A (Rev 1.0) is just a cheap motherboard that happens to feature the P35 chipset. How cheap? you may ask. Knowing ECS, I would venture a retail price below 100$. That could prove to be the foundation of a really cheap system. Add an 800 Mhz FSB Core 2 and you have both OC potential and an upgrade path.

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