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The Making of a Motherboard at ECS

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the under-the-hood dept.

sheiky writes "Hardcoreware.net has posted a look at the manufacturing process of a motherboard at a new ECS factory in Shen Zhen. Unlike most factories, they build boards from the ground up at one location, starting with the PCB all the way to a finished product. They also talk a little bit about the working conditions they witnessed in China."

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  1. Dupe by Ramble · · Score: 5, Informative
    Bit-Tech did this over a week ago.

    http://www.bit-tech.net/bits/2006/06/16/ecs_shen_z hen_factory_tours/1.html

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  2. ECS at Frys by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    I work a Fry's Electronics. The rurmor at my store is is that ECS is owned by Fry's. I have never seen or heard anything to validate or disprove that, so take it with a grain of salt.
    Anywho, regardless of ownership, ECS products are the favorite things to sell at Fry's. From the ECS motherboards to their Great Quality branded computers and notebooks.

    As an employee in the service department (and thus, responisble for repairing computers when they fail) I can tell you the anything made by ECS is complete dirt. The GQ computers are not too bad, but I have never seen so many DOA motherboards in my life. We had a customer buy a mobo/cpu combo last week and his board was DOA. We ended up going though SIX (yes "6") more boards before we found one that would actually work.

    DO NOT BUY ECS PRODUCTS.