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ABIT BH6 MOTHERBOARD
Last updated: 7/14/2000
 The
Abit BH6 motherboard is easy to install and is absolutely stable with a
450 Mhz Pentium III processor. Everything about it--layout, capacitors,
packaging, and the user manual--rings of quality. An inadequate system
monitoring function and not enough ISA slots are the only real negatives. The
jumperless CPU installation makes installing this board as simple as a
single sentence:
Mount the CPU and heatsink support, plug-in
the fan, pop-in the memory, attach the motherboard with six standoffs
and six screws, plug-in the ATX power connector, attach the front panel
connectors, remove the expansion slot cover and plug-in an AGP video
adapter, plug-in the keyboard and monitor, plug-in the power cord,
turn-on the power switch, press the Delete key to get into the CMOS
setup, set the CPU speed, and save and exit.
After the drives are connected and the Standard CMOS has
been set, Windows 98 has installed on all of the computers I've built with
this motherboard each time, the first time without a glitch. To
date, in the field, the board has performed flawlessly. I like the
results: no trouble calls and happy customers.
Features...
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CPU. If there is something I really like about Abit motherboards
it is the lack of jumpers. All of the CPU settings, except the speed,
which is easily set in the CMOS setup, are done automatically . There
is only one, well-located jumper on the board and that one is used to clear
the CMOS.
Layout. The
BH6 has a clean, well-organized layout. Everything, front panel connectors,
DIMM slots, CPU, and I/O is conveniently located where it should be. The
board is small enough that it only takes six screws to attach it to an ATX
chassis.
Silk-screening
and labeling. Silk-screening on this board is good; however, it
is somewhat ambiguous where one really needs good labels. During
the first couple of installs, I had to refer to the user manual to plug-in
the front panel connectors--no big deal.
Chipset. The
board uses the Intel BX440 (82443BX and 82371BX) chipset. Contrary
to the above picture, the 83443BX chip, next to the CPU, has a heat sink
on it.
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