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At first I want to thank ECS for providing me their H57H-MUS (V1.0A) motherboard for testing and reviewing.



Designed to support latest Intel CPUs with integrated graphics and built around Intel's latest H57 chipset, the H57H-MUS board from ECS also features a complete bundle composed of a USB 3.0 and SATA 6G expansion card, which makes the board a future-proof powerful computing platform, in a MATX board format.


About the company :

“ECS, the Elitegroup Computer Systems, was established in 1987, and is approaching its 23rd year of business. More than two decades, ECS has overcome a great deal of obstacles facing new businesses and has experienced the joy of significant growth and development. Her main focus has expanded to not only motherboards, but also desktop and notebook computers, graphics cards and other mobile products. ECS is strongly committed to develop cutting-edge technology in order to generate innovative products under environmental friendly designs. ECS comprehensive system of quality control provides our clients with reassurance and fosters long term cooperation.

Green Touch, Good Life
ECS commits to protect the Earth by reducing the global environmental loading as the priority of her corporate sustainable strategy. Confronting more and more global environmental impacts; climate change, natural resources depletion and the crisis of ecological imbalance, ECS devotes the Green Solutions for the Earth sustainable development without compromising customer satisfaction. ECS expects bringing people with more Green Touch for a Good Life.

Starting from 2006, ECS has been implementing the “ECS Green Competitive Advantage and Quality Plan” and introduced Green Products through 4-stages of non-toxic management; including non-toxic suppliers, non-toxic material, non-toxic manufacturing & processing, and, non-toxic quality controls. Besides, ECS is recognized under the IECQQC080000 Certification in her two major manufacturing sites in China; Golden Elite Technology at Shenzhen and ESZ at Suzhou. That empowers ECS desire of providing end users with HSF (Hazardous Substance Free) products to ensure a quality green life.

As a top-down decision, ECS dedicates to offering clean and environmentally friendly computer products for consumers through product design, purchase, production, sale and services to the 3R environmental objectives – Reduce, Reuse and Recycle. The ECS engineering teams are engaged to create products under a Green concept by size reduction, product longevity, easy disassembly, recycle potential, substance restriction and energy saving. For example, ECS green motherboards apply to the three environmental directives – the WEEE (Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment) promoted by the European Union; RoHS (Restriction on Hazardous Substance Directive) and EuP (Eco design of Energy-using Products Directive).

Nowadays, ECS integrates Green concept in her daily operation. From the headquarters on Taiwan to worldwide branches, ECS practices ...

At first I want to thank Kingmax for providing me their "Turbo Vaccine" Flash Drive (UD-01) for testing and reviewing.



Through all the hundreds, even thousands of flash drives types on the market, Kingmax comes with an interesting looking drive, which has an antivirus on it named "Turbo Vaccine", which does not need to be installed on the computer, it simply runs right from plugging in the drive into a spare USB port. It features both Windows Xp and Vista compatibility, but not Windows 7.

About the company:

“KINGMAX Semiconductor Inc, a global memory technology leader, has long been committed to the innovation of the best memory module solutions. The KINGMAX brand of memory module products is highly recognized by IT hardware media and end users around the world. KINGMAX Semiconductor Inc. delivers exceptional, process-planned and quality-managed results. KINGMAX Semiconductors main strategy is to secure the global distribution market and expand its business scale through the development of its own brand of memory products.

The KINGMAX ...

At first I want to thank Sparkle for providing me their GeForce GTS250 Low Profile Series for testing and reviewing.



Sparkle has a lot of interesting innovations in their latest video cards, for example the Calibre X240/X240G graphics cards with dual-layer fan blades cooling system, which spins in both directions, to avoid dust accumulation. In this review I will look upon another card, which seems to be one of the most powerful ones on the market, in low profile format. Its name is GTS250 Low Profile Series, with 1GB GDDR3 on-board and to see its performance I will run various synthetic and game benchmarks.

About Sparkle:

" SPARKLE was established in 1982. SPARKLE is a company with endless energy, vitality and a management of unmatched wit and dedication. SPARKLE respects individualism, insists on highest quality, cares about the natural environment and serves its customers with highest regard. These principles have already penetrated into every corner of the company, motivating SPARKLE and its industry peers toward their leadership positions all the way into the next century.

Motivation of Human Hearts

SPARKLE never ceases to motivate for the sake of creativity and innovation. SPARKLE always seeks to surpass the status quo, and has always been attentive to the basic human elements of individualism and intuition.


Unending Pursuit of Quality

SPARKLE only applies the newest and most advanced graphic card technologies to its products, offers them to the market at reasonable prices and keeps a keen eye on consumer needs in the real world.

SPARKLE has comprehensive lines of products tested with the most stringent quality standards and test requirements. SPARKLE products also provide the most stable operation and excellent performance, and are available to consumers at very market competitive prices.

Attentive ...

At first I want to thank the Jetway for providing me the Jetway NC94 Mini-ITX motherboard for testing and reviewing.

Warning!!! This board is not any more for sale from Jetway, they have been replaced with boards that have different cooling system and the audio connectors have been redesigned to fit smaller enclosures. Besides this, all the hardware is identical.



Jetway is a company mostly oriented on motherboards and IPC boards. The advantage of the IPC boards with integrated CPUs like ATOM, VIA Nano is that they offer decent performances for everyday browsing, editing documents, while consuming very little power; a lot of them consume the power that normal PC power supplies draw when the computer is off. By utilizing a separate video card, in this case a Nvidia GT 240, we can even play some games, with decent FPS.

About the Jetway Company

(taken from the company website)

Jetway Info.Co., LTD. was established in Taipei, Taiwan 1986. The dedicated and professional motherboard manufacturer is founded on "genuine and honest". We present the IT products of quality and performance with experiences of being devoted to motherboards designing, producing and manufacturing over 20 years. Jetway contributes and delivers the reliable system foundations ...