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BE6 Pentium�III AGP Based ATX Mainboard Supporting Ultra DMA66 IDE Protocol & With CPU SOFTMENUTMII Technology
ABIT introduces their latest BX chipset, ATX based SLOT-1 motherboard, supporting the Ultra DMA/66 IDE Protocol and SoftMENUTM II technology, the BE6 with all the great features of the BH6 and including UDMA/66.
Hardware monitoring - Including fan speed, voltages, System environment temperature,and one Thermal header for CPU or other temperature monitoring

Manufacturer's Website: http://www.abit.com.tw/english/product/index.htm
Chipset: Intel�440BX AGPset (82443BX and 82371EB)

Supported CPUs:   Pentium� III 450~550MHz processor cartridge Pentium� II 233~450MHz processor cartridge Celeron� 266~433MHz processor cartridge

BIOS and Driver Updates:   CLICK HERE FOR DRIVERS

L2 Cache:   Integrated On CPU

Expansion Slots:   One AGP slot, Five PCI slots and Two ISA slots

Memory:   Three 168-pin DIMM sockets support SDRAM module Supports up to 768MB MAX. (8, 16, 32, 64, 128,256MB SDRAM)

Onboard I/O:   One Floppy port connector One Standard/EPP/ECP parallel port Two 16550 fast UART compatible serial ports PS/2 keyboard and PS/2 mouse ports connectors IrDA TX/RX header, Wake On Lan header Two USB ports, SB-LinkTM header

Onboard Graphics:   N/A

Onboard Sound:   N/A

BIOS:   Award Plug and Play BIOS supports APM, DMI and ACPI

Form Factor:   ATX - Dimensions : 305*210mm

Added Features: Hardware monitoring - Includes fan speed, voltages, CPU and system environment temperature,and one thermal header for other temperature monitoting - . Two channels of bus Master IDE Ports supporting up to four Ultra DMA 33/66 devices

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So Far 10 of you have given this board an Overall Rating Of: 95.5%
Ease of Installation Rating: 93.3
You rated the included documentation at: 91.5%
And rated your performance increase at 88.0%

The last few people to rate this board (that also left comments) had this to say:

James R. Sassman said: This was my first homebuilt. It has been extremely reliable. This board got a bad reputation after first being introduced. Why? Inexperienced builders? Unfamiliarity with requirements for UDMA/66 setup? I don't know. But none of those issues were a

Chris Collins said: What lets the motherboard down is the very unreliable highpoint controller.

KevBo said: ultra ATA66 is a little trouble but after updating the bios and the ATA66 drivers Maxtor 20gig works like a charm.

Keith Nowicki said: BE6 II This board rockswith the 1mhz settings you can tweak your cpu and with ATA66 helps out and with a ASUS GForce it's a kicking system.

This Mainboard has received the following scores on our Graphics Card Survey!

Graphics Chip	Rating	Submissions
nVidia GeForce256	10.0	1
nVidia-TNT2	8.5	2
3dfx-Voodoo3	7.67	3
S3-Savage4	7.0	1
Other	6.0	1

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Users experienced in overclocking have left the following comments:

pershing has pushed a CPU with a default speed of 400MHz up to 500MHz!
Stability: 10
Remarks: 83MHZ

The Stickman has pushed a CPU with a default speed of 333MHz up to 560MHz!
Stability: 10
Remarks: My motherboard is a matsonic 7192S and its set at default voltage of 2.05...runs like a dream!

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