A BX board for the overclocker in you! (Abit BE6-II)

Member Name: djmachin

Product:	Abit BE6-II
Date:	12/12/00 (161 review reads)
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Advantages: Proccessor support/bus speed support

Disadvantages: Crappy UDMA on version 1

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 shares with 5, leaving only 4 with a non shared IRQ shared. Also it is fussy about the drives it has connected (either UDMA33 or 66)

I may not be singing it's praise but I have the original version and I think most of these problem have been sorted out with version 1.2 and 2.0.

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