Abit BP6

Lets get one thing out in the open from the beginning the Abit BP6 is one of the most exiting and important mainboard releases ever. Why? Lets have a look at a little history... When Intel released the original cacheless Celeron it was targeted fairly and squarely at the low end. The high end was dominated by the Pentium Pro and also the then new Xeon. Both the pro and the Xeon supported and boasted about their SMP support, used in highend graphic workstations and file servers. The Celeron was sold as a Uniprocessor CPU only. Nevertheless a very clever Japanese chap soon discovered that the Celeron could be modified to run in SMP but frankly, the modifications involved ...  Read the complete review

The Abit Bp6 was the board i wanted from the start of my computing life back in the days when i had a cyrix P200+ on a socket 7 board so a Duel Socket 370 was quite good.I went to a computer fair to buy a Bp6 but i was £20 short and the stall owner woundnt be prepaired to haggle. So i bought a Jetway board that supported S370 & Slot 1 very cool indeed got my Celery433 up to 500 stably. But then as the monthes passed my freind offered me a BP6 for £65! this was a must buy and i gave him the money within 3 days of the offer! I installed it with the following:- Midi tower case Bp6 Single 433 Celeron voodoo3 3000 Quantum LM15+ ...  Read the complete review