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-386/32Year: 1989 |
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P5GX-MYear: 1998 Supports *only* the Cyrix/National Semiconductor MediaGXm CPU running at 200, 233 or 266 MHz. |
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P5HX-AYear: 1996 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-BYear: 1996 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-AYear: 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-BEYear: 1995 |
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UL486Year: 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 AIOYear: 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-AIOYear: 1995 Supports Intel Pentium P54C from 75 MHz - 150 MHz. |
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TSI54P-AIOYear: 1995 Supports Cyrix 6x86 CPUs, from P120+ to P166+, but these all require the Cyrix voltage regulator and heatsink. |
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TR5510-AIOYear: 1995 Supports Cyrix 6x86 CPUs, from P120+ to P150+, AMD K5. |
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SI5PI-AIOYear: 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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UC4913Year: 1992 This board supports 486SX, 486DX, 486DX2, 4867SX (P23N), 486 Overdrive (P23T), Pentium Overdrive (P24T), and Cyrix Cx486 (M6) and IDT Winchip C6. More Images |
Graphics Cards
VideoImage VI-640Year: 1995 The VI-640 had a maximum resolution of 1280 x 1024 non-interlaced. |
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VideoImage VI-710 / VI-710A / VI-711Year: 1993? |
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VideoImage VI-711AYear: 1993? More Images |
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VideoImage VI-720Year: 1994? The VideoImage VI-720 came in either PCI or VESA Local Bus form, with the PCI version using the Cirrus Logic CL-32-bit CL-GD5430 and the VLB version using the CL-GD5434 graphics accelerator chips. Both these accelerators had a 32-bit memory bus. The onboard video memory ran at 60 MHz with 70ns DRAM SOJ chips, with half the memory soldered-in and two sockets for expansion to 2 MB (1 MB factory card) or 4 MB (2 MB from factory). More Images |
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VideoImage VI-811Year: 1995? |
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VideoImage VI-911Year: 1995? |
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VideoImage VI-930Year: 1992? |
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VideoImage VI-931Year: 1992? VI-931 is a high resolution, high performance PCI video card using the S3 86C868 64-bit GUI accelerator with a video engine. It is designed with 64-bit architecture which provides good performance for high resolution, true color applications. It supports Intel, PowerPC, Alpha and MIPS hardware platform and a range of operating environments such as Windows, Windows NT, and OS/2. Bus Interface:
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VideoImage VI-940A / VI-940BYear: 1995? |
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VideoImage VI-941 / VI-941A / VI-941BYear: 1995 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
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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:
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VideoImage VI-942Year: January 1996 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. Bus Interface
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3DVision-6326Year: 1997 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. |
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AG305-32Year: 199x 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. |
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AG315-E32Year: 199x 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. |