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ECS AM4 B350 Motherboard Pictured

Space Reptile

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A am4 board from ESC has been spotted ,

this will be sofar the only board from the company according the article

it also sports a 6 phase vrm wich hopefully will be heatsinked

 

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ECS showed off its B350AM4-M, which appears to be the company's only socket AM4 motherboard, for now. This micro-ATX board is based on AMD's mid-tier B350 chipset. The board draws power from 24-pin ATX and 4-pin CPU power connectors, and conditions it for the CPU with a 6-phase VRM. Expansion slots include one PCI-Express 3.0 x16, a second x16 slot that's electrical x4, and one each of x1 and legacy PCI slots. Storage connectivity includes two M.2 slots, and four SATA 6 Gb/s ports. 6-channel HD audio, and gigabit Ethernet make for the rest of it.

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I feel like the market for motherboards is a bit saturated with Asrock, Gigabyte, Asus, ECS, Biostar, MSI and EVGA all making some, but it's nice that smaller companies give it a try. Honestly the best way to make sales happen to someone small like ECS is to make a good motherboard especially on the BIOS side, and send review samples to everyone.

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No VRM cooling? Me no like.

Looks nice, simple and clean.

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55 minutes ago, Space Reptile said:

A wild am4 board has appeared

 

FTFY

 

15 minutes ago, revsilverspine said:

No VRM cooling? Me no like.

Looks nice, simple and clean.

 

The problem with AMD boards, the CPUs are all unlocked, and most of the motherboards can overclock them, but no VRM heatsinks... :|

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2 minutes ago, JoaoPRSousa said:

The problem with AMD boards, the CPUs are all unlocked, and most of the motherboards can overclock them, but no VRM heatsinks... :|

found that out for myself early on 

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Ugh, only 4-pins CPU power connection.... :/

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Ewwww ECS. Never. They make some of the few motherboards where the "motherboards don't affect performance" saying is actually wrong.

 

56 minutes ago, Energycore said:

I feel like the market for motherboards is a bit saturated with Asrock, Gigabyte, Asus, ECS, Biostar, MSI and EVGA all making some, but it's nice that smaller companies give it a try. Honestly the best way to make sales happen to someone small like ECS is to make a good motherboard especially on the BIOS side, and send review samples to everyone.

ECS is far from a small company. In fact, they're larger than Asus, Gigabyte, Biostar, and ASRock combined.

They just deal mainly in OEM applications.

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2 minutes ago, dizmo said:

Ewwww ECS. Never. They make some of the few motherboards where the "motherboards don't affect performance" saying is actually wrong.

 

ECS is far from a small company. In fact, they're larger than Asus, Gigabyte, Biostar, and ASRock combined.

They just deal mainly in OEM applications.

Oh lol

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4 minutes ago, JoshB2084 said:

Ugh, only 4-pins CPU power connection.... :/

You're not planning to overclock on a $50 motherboard, right?

15 minutes ago, JoaoPRSousa said:

 

FTFY

 

 

The problem with AMD boards, the CPUs are all unlocked, and most of the motherboards can overclock them, but no VRM heatsinks... :|

$50 motherboard. What did you expect? (Guessing on pricing based on current products and features of the motherboard)

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1 minute ago, TheRandomness said:

You're not planning to overclock on a $50 motherboard, right?

$50 motherboard. What did you expect? (Guessing on pricing based on current products and features of the motherboard)

wait. That's a fiddy dolla board? damn that's cheap. most likely targeted for APUs for low demand systems then

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1 minute ago, revsilverspine said:

wait. That's a fiddy dolla board? damn that's cheap. most likely targeted for APUs for low demand systems then

No, I'm guessing based on features and motherboard size (limited I/O, no heat sinks on VRM, no 3.1 header, uATX...etc). 

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2 minutes ago, TheRandomness said:

No, I'm guessing based on features and motherboard size (limited I/O, no heat sinks on VRM, no 3.1 header, uATX...etc). 

Fair guess nonetheless.

 

The fact that all AM4 motherboards I've seen so far have video ports is kinda confusing, tbh, though I fully understand the logic behind it. No point in making more boards than needed to cover both APUs and CPUs I suppose

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5 minutes ago, TheRandomness said:

You're not planning to overclock on a $50 motherboard, right?

 

No... I rather to paying $50-100 more than that to OC'ing, have more USB 3.0 ports, removed ugly VGA port...

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Looks pretty standard.

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17 minutes ago, JoshB2084 said:

No... I rather to paying $50-100 more than that to OC'ing, have more USB 3.0 ports, removed ugly VGA port...

Well, this motherboard is probably for a system to just work, and the overclocking is just an added bonus. 

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17 minutes ago, TheRandomness said:

You're not planning to overclock on a $50 motherboard, right?

$50 motherboard. What did you expect? (Guessing on pricing based on current products and features of the motherboard)

 

I didn't know the price... But still, I think there were some AM3 boards that were a bit more expensive and didn't have decent if any VRM cooling...

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1 minute ago, JoaoPRSousa said:

 

I didn't know the price... But still, I think there were some AM3 boards that were a bit more expensive and didn't have decent if any VRM cooling...

Because they wanted to be cheaper to get more sales :D

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Now this is a board that won't find itself near any RGB lighting anytime soon: not many people go for the more traditional shit brown color.

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13 minutes ago, Misanthrope said:

Now this is a board that won't find itself near any RGB lighting anytime soon: not many people go for the more traditional shit brown color.

To be honest, I'll take this over any of the ridiculous new boards (Looking at you Ashrock).

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i dont give 2 shits about the color of my board. I don't like LED's in my system cuz i never look inside it except when there's a problem. I only look at my monitor which is the only place you want to look cuz that's where the action is. I really don't understand this RGB madness that's going on. Its on everything i never look at when using my system. I only have RGB on my mouse and its nice and all but it will never be a reason to buy it.

 

Ill take clean boards like this over the flashy RGB crap any day... Im building a PC not a friggin disco

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3 hours ago, revsilverspine said:

No VRM cooling?

3 hours ago, TheRandomness said:

no heat sinks on VRM,

 

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costs a whoppin 5 dollars on ebay , vrm heatsink from arctic w/ the good thermal adhesive 

 

 

guys this is a B350 board , and from ECS , who are mostly dealing w/ oem ,

this is most likely a 49.99~69.99 cookie cutter board for the 80ish% of people who just want a computer that works

or prebuilt systems that you see on ebay ever so often 

 

 

1 hour ago, Helly said:

Ill take clean boards like this over the flashy RGB crap any day... Im building a PC not a friggin disco

AMEN , my boards are either brown or GREEN (intel / supermicro oem) ,

and they go in a case where i have to be superman to complain about its non flashyness

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5 hours ago, revsilverspine said:

No VRM cooling? Me no like.

Looks nice, simple and clean.

The B350 chipset doesn't even support overclocking anyway, the B does mean budget/basic. If you want OC look at the X370 and X300.

 

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1 minute ago, leadeater said:

The B350 chipset doesn't even support overclocking anyway, the B does mean budget/basic. If you want OC look at the X370 and X300.

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