May 18 2011 review by madshrimps

ECS is one of the companies that built AMD Fusion boards, with the both E-240 (single core) and E-350 (dual core) APUs. These small platforms offer us enough performance to set up a small file server, navigate on the Internet, check our email, but we can also play some of the old games, thanks to the integrated AMD Radeon HD 6310 Graphics with 80 unified shaders.

The board BIOS does not have a lot of options to set , but comes with the Turbo option and the ability to set the memory clock speed and timings, something that was not available on the previously tested Foxconn board. When activated, the Turbo mode gives quite a noticeable boost in most of the tests, leaving the other platforms in the dust. What seems interesting is that even if the CPU clock speed jumps up to 2133MHz (from 1600MHz), the power consumption does not seem to increase much.

Benchmarks Tested:

3D Mark 2001, 3D Mark 2003, 3D Mark 2005, 3D Mark 2006, Cinebench, Counterstrike Source, CrystalMark, LightsMark 2008, PC mark 2005, PC mark vantage, SuperPi, wPrime, x264 HD.

Test Setup:

• HDD : Hitachi Travelstar 5K250 250GB
• Memory : 2x2GB Exceleram EP3001A DDR3 PC3-10666
• Motherboard: ECS HDC-I Mini-ITX
• PSU : Nexus Value 430W

Compared To:

ECS HDC-I 4GB Turbo, Foxconn AHD1S 2GB, Foxconn AHD1S 4GB, Shuttle XS35GT 2GB.