Abit BE6-II

This is one of my favourite motherboards, for the slot Pentium II & III chips, as it is a great board, with a load of really good features for the over clocker. Firstly, the board is available in two flavours. One with a High Point UDMA 66 Hard disk controller, and the other with a UDMA 100 controller, giving you to get the most from today's newest Hard disks. For the over clocker, being an ABIT board, it features their wonderful Bios configuration system, which allows you to change, clock multipliers, bus speeds and voltages through the bios. So you don't have to worry about dip switches and jumpers! This feature makes it so easy to up the ...  Read the complete review

I bought this board in Dec '99 (Version 1 board with HPT 366 UDMA chip)when I had a PII-350. Even then it was cool as I could increase the bus speed by 1Mhz increments to reach 433Mhz nice and stable. I then Sold the proccessor and bought a slot 1 PIII-750. Even though it was a BX based board, with the latest BIOS (Revision UH) it will go up to 1Ghz as it supports the lower voltages. I've got the proccessor up to 863Mhz stable with a slot 1 Golden Orb cooler. As I added new drives I enabled the on board UDMA-66 controller. This was the main pain in the butt as the controller shares an IRQ with slot 3 and 5 (I think!), then there is slot 2 which ...  Read the complete review

I have had this motherboard for nearly a year and have found it to be excellent. It was the first motherboard that I had attempted to fit myself and it went in without any problems. I bought it with a PIII 500 CPU and the setup was a chinch as this M/B uses the softmenu method of setting CPU speeds, so no messing with jumpers. The motherboard can be set for PII/III CPU’s upto 600 MHz (although later versions, and this one with a BIOS update can go higher in the softmenu – 800 Mhz I believe). There are options to go higher by using a manual setting and the FSB (Front Side Bus – the speed of the motherboard) can be set from 83MHz to 200MHz ...  Read the complete review