ECS A770M-A

Slots

The slot configuration seems to favor PCI-E x1 cards, even with a two slot VGA card installed you still have access to 2 PCI and 2 PCI-E x1 slots.
It has also to be noted that the PCI-E x16 slot supports the new PCI-E 2.0 speeds. Although it took us a few BIOS revisions to get it working properly.

Cooling

Both Northbridge and Southbridge are passively cooled.

Chips

The monitoring chip is from ITE and carries the model number IT8726F-S.


The RTL8111B is a fairly common Ethernet chip from Realtek and connected via PCI-Express.


As clockgenerator an ICS9LPRS471 is used. It seems this is a new model specifically designed for the needs of Phenom processors.


The Realtek ALC883 offers high-quality HD audio output.

Capacitors