ECS MCP61M-M3

Once again, ECS has offered a real cheap and value prices of motherboards for AM3 socket processors with ECS MCP61M-M3 series, it's not a premium motherboard from ECS but still worth to buy and it's looks still good for limited budget computers user. While many of AM3 motherboard comes with AMD chipset, NVidia with GeForce chipset looks can't fight with their rival, the performance and also the variant of NVidia chipset for AM3 motherboard is not so great as AMD chipset (overall), and I just found a little bit of NVidia chipset motherboards in the market. Today, we will see one of the NVidia chipset motherboards and it has supported for AMD processors with AM3 socket, so check this out.

ECS MCP61M-M3 has comes with cheap of prices, simple motherboard layout but still great.

Powered by NVIDIA GeForce6150SE/nForce430 integrated chipset, ECS MCP61M-M3 supports for AMD Phenom II processors, the motherboard also uses dual channel memory mode for better bandwidth, there is something special from MCP61M-M3 motherboard, yes the motherboard has supported for unlock hidden AMD CPU core, so you can try to use it when you buy a Athlon II X2, Athlon II X3 or another AMD Phenom II variant.

Here is the main features and main specs of ECS MCP61M-M3
- ECS "Unlock" Technology (Thumbs Up!! for it)
- Supports for AMD Phenom II processors (up to 95W TDP CPU only)
- NVIDIA GeForce 6150SE/nForce 430 chipset
- NVIDIA GeForce 6150SE on board graphics card, DirectX 9, Shader Model 3.0
- Dual Channel DDR3 1333(OC), 2 x 240-pin DDR3 DIMM socket, 8 GB MAX
- PCI EXPRESS x16, SATA 2.0, USB 2.0
- Supports Ultra DMA 33/66/100/133 IDE devices
- 6 Channel High Definition Audio
- VIA VT1705 6-channel audio CODEC
- MATX Size, 244mm*214mm of dimension

ECS MCP61M-M3 has been born with simple package, there is no one for USB 3.0, SATA 3.0 or PCI-E 3.0 as the latest PCI-E 16x interface, but it's all about the value. The motherboard also equipped with solid capacitor on the CPU area, it's good for overclocking and also for computer system stability. If you want to get the real cheap AM3 motherboard, ECS MCP61M-M3 is one of the best for you, you can also found another NVidia chipset motherboard such as Biostar N68S3B with NVidia GeForce 7025, or also Asrock N68C-S UCC with NVidia GeForce 7025 too. So whatever your choice, choose it by your needs and your money. Good luck.