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This is ABIT's premier, all around full-featured, full spec 440BX motherboard for SOHO or multimedia environments. It has soffical support for Intel's newest PentiumŽIII 450- 500MHz and PentiumŽII 350 -450MHz processors running on the 100MHz system bus as well as being backwards compatible to support PentiumŽII 233 ~ 333MHz processors.

It comes with WinBond chipset for hardware monitoring of fan speed, voltages, and system temperature capabilities.
The BX6 Rev. 2.0 comes with Four DIMM sockets enhanced by the 6 chip Data Buffer set, providing enough stable main memory capacity for any business computing, 3D gaming, multimedia, applications and CAD/CAM type applications.

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

Added Features:   .SOFT MENUTM II eliminates the need for jumpers or DIP switches to set CPU parameters Supports Ultra DMA/33 IDE protocol Has 6 chip Data Buffer set

User Ratings:

Below is a list of how you, the users, rate this board: (higher is better!)

So Far 9 of you have given this board an Overall Rating Of: 96.33%
Ease of Installation Rating: 97.33
You rated the included documentation at: 87.89%
And rated your performance increase at 94.67%

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

Uncle El said: Soft Menu (jumperless) was the key selling feature for me. Auto detects your CPU. Overclock is a snap!
Jeff Dawson said: This board and the overclocked celery 450A have been stable and used daily for over a year and a half. A solid board.

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

Graphics ChipRatingSubmissions
nVidia-TNT29.02
Matrox-G4008.01
3dfx-Voodoo37.01
Other1.01

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Users experienced in overclocking have left the following comments:
Daniel Vega has pushed a CPU with a default speed of 500MHz up to 560MHz!
Stability: 10
Remarks: My plans are to get a larger Tower Case, a Hard Drive cooler for my 7200RPM Drive, a Alpha P3125 cooler and a 50watt peltier cooler. I'm going to aim for about a 700MHz speed and sub 30C temp. I'll repost what happens.
Quad Frost has pushed a CPU with a default speed of 400MHz up to 500MHz!
Stability: 10
Remarks: This is really cool viva CELERON !!!! 6*83
Jamin Shanti has pushed a CPU with a default speed of 366MHz up to 550MHz!
Stability: 10
Remarks: Bought it promised it would work at 550. In slot 1 adapter. Had some probs with temp line in too far(breaking connection with heat sink) Bought it at www.outsideloop.com core voltate 2.10 Works great and fast as Sh**!
Jamin Shanti has pushed a CPU with a default speed of 366MHz up to 550MHz!
Stability: 10
Remarks: Bought it promised it would work at 550. In slot 1 adapter. Had some probs with temp line in too far(breaking connection with heat sink) Bought it at www.outsideloop.com core voltate 2.10 Works great and fast as Sh**!
has pushed a CPU with a default speed of 550MHz up to 710MHz!
Stability: 10
Remarks: viper v770 agp, soundblaster live pci, us robotics 56k pci, 2x 128MB corsair pc133, samsung HD UMDA33

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On 15-Jun-00, Lawrence left the following
Comment: It's the reason I'm sticking to intel (for now).
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