ECS Deluxe Z97-PK Review

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Overclockers Club published a review on the ECS Deluxe Z97-PK

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The novelty started with this board, was the quick bundle sale it was originally packaged with. You could get the board and an Intel Pentium G3258 Anniversary Edition for $104 from Newegg. The deal only lasted a couple of days and the short deal was gone. The ECS Z97-PK is now set at $79, but is still one of the cheapest boards for the socket out there. The board and chip were said to be best friends, so we had to go out and get the chip to pair them together for this review ? sadly our chip wasn't quite as worthy as some of you might have hoped. Either way?the focus here should be on the ECS Z97-PK motherboard, it is the main case for this review. The actual use of the chip was just a bonus.

The ECS Z97-PK is a low-cost motherboard, designed to handle the Pentium G3258, OC, or run a higher-end CPU on stock clocks. You'll get all the higher-end features that you normally won't get with a low-cost board. It's an mATX form factor, so you can squeeze it into some of your smaller build designs, including, but not limited to, home theater builds. The support of even the Pentium gets you a pretty solid starter gaming build, the idea of gaming only on a quad core or more is not valid, this combo brings affordability to even the most extreme budget gamer. At $150 with current sales, it's a little harder to sell in my opinion, but let's see what the benchmarks say.
 ECS Deluxe Z97-PK Review @ OCC