Abit is among the world's best manufacturers of motherboards. In past
years, the Taiwanese company has built an extensive portfolio of boards
that cater to the overclocking populous. The BE6-II is no exception.
The BE6 II, as the name implies, is the second-generation board to carry
the BE6 label and it's worthy of it.
Like the original, the BE6 II utilizes the trusted BX chipset. For
overclockers the 13 FSB speeds have been replaced with a mind blowing 120,
which is way more than anyone will ever use. The quantity allows
overclockers to be more precise in finding their systems' limits.
If you had to run at 112MHz FSB on board X because your CPU could not
handle the next higher 124MHz setting, you are probably not realizing your
configuration's full potential. If the aforementioned system could run at
the 122MHz FSB it would be losing a potential of 40+MHz in CPU speed.
The BE6 II is a totally different animal than its predecessor.
BE6 II specifications
CPUs supported
Intel Pentium III 450-800 Intel Pentium II 233-450 Intel Celeron 266-533
Intel 440BX (82443BX and 82371EB)
Supports Advanced Configuration and Power Management Interface (ACPI)
Supports AGP 1x/2x (Sideband) 3.3v device
High Point HPT366 chipset supports Ultra DMA 66
1/1 and 2/3 AGP clock dividers
1/2, 1/3, 1/4 PCI clock dividers
Expansion slots
1 AGP
5 PCI
1 ISA
Peripheral interfaces
2 IDE, up to 4 Ultra DMA33/66
PS/2 keyboard and mouse
1 floppy (up to 2.88MB)
1 parallel (EPP/ECP)
2 serial
2 USB
PC99 color connectors
BIOS
Award Plug and Play 6.0
Clock multipliers
.5x increments between 2x and 8x
FSB options
66MHz, 75MHz, 83-200MHz (in 1 MHz increments)
Miscellaneous
SOFT MENU III or
DIP switches to set CPU parameters
Write-Protect Anti-Virus (BIOS)
Year 2000 Compliant
Hardware monitoring
Keyboard/Mouse/Password and Hot Key multifunction Power On
Wake on LAN/Wake on Ring header
IrDA TX/RX header
One thermal sensor cable
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