Elitegroup Computer Systems
Elitegroup was a manufacturer of motherboards and graphics cards for the IBM PC and its compatibles during the DOS era.
They discontinued their peripheral card division in around 1999, focussing instead on motherboards.
Elitegroup Computer Systems, Co., Ltd. resided at No. 1, Lane 159, Li Teh Road, Peitou,Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C., Tel: 886-2-896-5859, Fax: 886-2-895-1294, Web Site: www.ecs.com.tw
In the USA, Elitegroup Computer Systems, Inc. resided at 45401 Research Ave., Fremont, CA 94539, Tel: (510) 226-7333, Fax: (510) 226-7350, Site: www.ecsusa.com
Motherboards
ECS-386/32
Year: 1989 |
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P5GX-M
Supports *only* the Cyrix/National Semiconductor MediaGXm CPU running at 200, 233 or 266 MHz. |
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P5HX-A
Supports Intel Pentium, Pentium MMX, AMD K5 and K6, and also works with Cyrix 6x86 CPUs from P120+ up to P166. The memory slots will take either FPM or EDO RAM. The board also has a COAST slot for adding L2 cache. |
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P5HX-B
Supports Intel Pentium and MMX (75 MHz up to 200 MHz), AMD K5 and K6, and also works with Cyrix 6x86 CPUs from P120+ up to P166. The memory slots will take either FPM or EDO RAM. The board also has a COAST slot for adding up to 256 KB more of L2 cache (on top of 256 KB on the mainboard itself). Jumpers JP15 and JP16 tell the board how much cache you have installed. FSB speeds can be set to either 50, 60 or 66 MHz. | ||||||||||
P5VX-A
Year: 1996 Works with Intel Pentium 75-200 MHz, (P54C and P55C) and Cyrix 6x86 CPUs from P120+ up to P166. Also supports AMD K5 and K6 CPUs. CPU voltage selections are 3.3V, 3.525V, 2.8V and 2.5V. A slightly odd layout this board has, with memory slots in the centre of the board. It also has a COAST slot to expand the onboard L2 cache size. The board supports EDO RAM.
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P5VX-BE
Year: 1995 |
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UL486
Year: 1992 The UL 486 motherboard supports 80486SX, DX, and DX-2 CPUs. In addition it has an Overdrive socket that is suitable for the Intel 80487 upgrade processor as well as the P23T OverDrive chip. Supported CPU clock frequencies range from 16 MHz up to 66 MHz. The L2 cache can be configured from 64KB up to 256KB via its eight 28-pin sockets plus 1 TAG RAM socket. |
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UM486V AIO / AIO(DIP)
Year: 1993 This board comes with 256 KB L2 cache, and supports 5V 80486 CPUs. |
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UM8810P AIO
Year: 1995 Works with the following CPUs: Intel 486SX/DX/SX2/DX2 CPU speeds from 25 MHz up to 100 MHz are supported, with bus multipliers of 2x or 3x only supported. CPU voltage settings are 3.3V, 3.45V, 3.6V, 4V and 5V. The board comes with 128 KB, 256 KB or 512 KB of onboard L2 cache. |
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SI54P-AIO
Year: 1995 Supports Intel Pentium P54C from 75 MHz - 150 MHz. |
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TSI54P-AIO
Year: 1995 Supports Cyrix 6x86 CPUs, from P120+ to P166+, but these all require the Cyrix voltage regulator and heatsink. |
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TR5510
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SI5PI-AIO
Year: 1994 FSB speeds can be set from 20, 33, 40, 50, 60 and 66 MHz. Supports up to 1 MB of L2 cache onboard via its cache sockets. This board has excellent overclocking / tweaking settings in the Award BIOS. Sadly it does come with the buggy CMD 540B PCI-EIDE controller but you can disable the CMD 32-bit transfer mode in the BIOS if you want or use a separate IDE controller card. Tested maximum bus transfer rates with this board:
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Graphics Cards
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VideoImage VI-710 / VI-710A / VI-711Year: 1993? |
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Resolution | Display Memory |
1600x1200x16/256 colors | 2M |
1280x1024x16/256 colors, NI | 2M |
1024x768x64K colors | 2M |
800x600x64K colors | 2M |
1024x768x16/256 colors | 1M |
800x600x16/256 colors | 1M |
640x480x16/256/64K/16.8 million colors | 1M |
VideoImage VI-940A / VI-940B
Year: 1995?
Type: PCI
Chipset: S3 Trio32 (VI-940A) or S3 Trio64 (VI-940B)
Memory: 4 MB?
FCC ID: -
Known Board Revisions: -
VideoImage VI-941 / VI-941A / VI-941B
Year: 1995
Type: PCI
Chipset: S3 Trio32 (VI-941A) or S3 Trio64 (VI-941B)
Memory: 1 MB or 2 MB DRAM
FCC ID: -
Known Board Revisions: -
VI-941 is a cost effective PCI graphic card using S3 Trio series GUI accelerator. The VI-941A is installed with Trio32 (32-bit GUI accelerator) controller, and the VI-941B is Trio64 (64-bit GUI accelerator). The VI-941A supports up to 1MB DRAM for the 32-bit memory interface architecture. The VI-941B supports 1MB DRAM on board, maximum to 2MB.
Bus Interface
- Compatible with PCI 2.0 standard
Display Interface:
- Features
- Resolution supports up to 1600x1200 256 colors
- Supports 32/64-bit memory interface
- Supports for Display Power Management Signaling (DPMS) in ROM
- Display DRAM
VI-941A: Supports 1MB DRAM on board only - you can upgrade to 2 MB, but no more hi-resolution mode and performance enhancement.
VI-941B: Supports 1MB DRAM (8 pcs of 256Kx4) on board, 2MB optional (2 pcs of 256K x16).
Key Components:
- Trio64/Trio32 : S3 PCI bus GUI accelerator
- Pin-compatible S3 Trio64 (64-bit Graphics Engine) and Trio32 (32-bit Graphics Engine)
- Integrated 24-bit RAMDAC and Programmable Dual-clock Synthesizer
- Extensive Static/Dynamic Power Savings
- DDC Monitor Communications Support
- 208-pin PQFP
VGA Modes Supported:
Resolution | Display Memory |
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1600x1200x16/256 colors | 2M |
1280x1024x16/256 colors, NI | 2M |
1024x768x64K colors | 2M |
800x600x64K/16.8 million colors | 2M |
1024x768x16/256 colors | 1M |
800x600x16/256 colors | 1M |
640x480x16/256/64K/16.8 million colors | 1M |
VideoImage VI-942
Year: January 1996
Type: PCI
Chipset: S3 Trio64V+
Memory: 1 MB, 2 MB or 4 MB
FCC ID: -
Known Board Revisions: -
The VI-942 64-bit DRAM-based multimedia graphic card provides accelerated graphics and video, high resolutions, true color and multimedia capabilities. It is installed with S3 Trio64V+ graphic and video accelerator and designed with DRAM up to 2 MB.
The VI-942 supports a video engine for video playback decompression algorithms. Its integrated color space conversion, scaling and dithering further enhance the user interface and increase video performance.
For low power consumption (Green PC), the VI-942 allows software manipulation of its horizontal and vertical sync signals to control the power state of monitors. The VI-942 also supports the VESA Display Data Channel (DDC1 and DDC2) standard that permits transfer of monitor identification and resolution support data.
Bus Interface
- Compatible with PCI 2.0 standard
- VI-942 Rev1.0: Only supports software MPEG
- VI-942 Rev2.0: Supports Local Peripher Bus (LPB) for Hardware MPEG Daughter board (LPB-100) or connect to other LPB device
Display Interface
- Features
- 64-bit graphic engine and video interface
- Supports 64-bit memory interface
- Supports for Display Power Management Signaling (DPMS) in ROM
- Video Playback
- Software MPEG
- Display DRAM
- Supports 1MB DRAM (8 pcs of 256Kx4) on board, 2MB optional (2 pcs of 256Kx16)
Key Components :
- Trio64V+ :
- Integrated 135MHz, 24-bit RAMDAC and Programmable Dual-clock Synthesizer
- High quality hardware assisted video playback
- Full hardware and BIOS support for VESA Display Power Management Signaling (DPMS) monitor power savings modes
- Industry Standard 208-pin PQFP package
- Support for Indeo Cinepak, and software accelerated MPEG-1 video playback
VGA Modes Supported:
Resolution | Display Memory |
1600x1200x16/256 colors | 2MB |
1280x1024x256 colors | 2MB |
1024x768x64K colors | 2MB |
800x600x64K/16.8 million colors | 2MB |
1600x1200x16 color | 1MB |
1280x1024x16 colors | 1MB |
1024x768x16/256 colors | 1MB |
800x600x16/256 colors | 1MB |
640x480x16/256/64K/16.8 million colors | 1MB |
3DVision-6326
Year: 1997
Type: AGP 2x
Chipset: SiS 6326
Memory: 4 MB EDO SDRAM
RAMDAC Speed: 175 MHz
FCC ID: -
Known Board Revisions: -
The 3DVision-6326 was based on the SiS 6326 graphics accelerator chipset, and came with a TV-Out port. I was able to provide a screen resolution up to 1280 x 1024 in 24-bit colour depths at an 85 Hz refresh rate.
AG305-32
Year: 199x
Type: AGP 2x
Chipset: SiS 305
Memory: 32 MB SDRAM
The AG305-32 was a 128-bit 2D graphics accelerator with a 128-bit 3D graphics engine combined with a 24-bit True Color RAMDAC. It ran with a 270 MHz core clock and offered display resolutions up to 1920x1440 in 256 colours at 60 Hz non-interlaced.
AG315-E32
Year: 199x
Type: AGP 4x
Chipset: SiS 315E
Memory: 32 MB SDRAM
The AG315-E32 was a 256-bit 3D graphics accelerator combined with a 24-bit True Color RAMDAC. It ran with a 375 MHz core clock and offered display resolutions up to 2048x1536 in 256 colours. The SiS chip also had a DVD Dynamic Compensation Decoder video accelerator for multimedia application. It was compatible with DirectX 8.