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01 March 2006

ECS KN1 SLI Extreme (1.0A)

Layout
The features of the board are designed for easy use and strong performance.


 

The KN1 SLI Extreme includes four DDR DIMM slots that are color coded for dual channel support.  The KN1 SLI Extreme also has two slots that doesn’t need a separate module to enable single or dual graphics cards.
 


 

The motherboard also includes plenty of additional 3-pin fan connectors for expansion and also includes a fan covering to help keep the power control chips cool  The designers of the board stressed cooling to bring out the potential of the computer.

The board has 3 PCI expansion slots, 1 PCI Expiress slot and 2 PCI Express x16 slots if you wish to take advantage of the SLI mode.

The wealth of ports on this board represent the vast number of features that are available.  There is built in Realtek 8 channel audio and dual LAN.  One LAN port is a Realtek 10/100 port, while the other is a Marvell Gigabit Ethernet port.  There are 4 USB ports along with the typical PS2 ports for your keyboard and mouse.

There is not much to look at the back of the board except the bare purple back of the board and the attachment near the CPU slot.

The motherboard supports up to 4GB of Dual Channel DDR Memory.  Lastly, you can connect up to 4 ATA drives as well as 4 SATA drives as well.

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Layout

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