Gigabyte GA-6BXU i440BX ATX Slot-1 SCSI

The Bad

Although Gigabyte used the Winbond 83782D, which is capable of reading CPU temperature from the onboard thermal diode, they still chose to use a board mounted thermistor on the GA-6BXU. This is simply not as accurate as reading from within the CPU die and there's no reason to not be reading from the CPU's onboard thermal diode.

It is extremely rare to see core voltage adjustments on a board with built-in SCSI like the GA-6BXU, but it's still something that could come in quite handy when overclocking. Of course, bus speeds are limited to 66 and 100MHz on the GA-6BXU. Combined with the locked multipliers on all recently manufactured CPU's and overclocking becomes quite difficult anyway.

A potential source of confusion is the inclusion of SCSI termination options in both the Award BIOS and Adaptec BIOS that loads after it.

USB Compatibility

• Number of Front Universal Serial Bus Root Ports: 0

• Number of Rear Universal Serial Bus Root Ports: 2

• USB IRQ Enable/Disable in BIOS: Yes

• USB Keyboard Support in BIOS: Yes

Recommended SDRAM

Recommended SDRAM: Mushkin SEC -GH PC100 SDRAM; Memory Man SEC -GH PC100 SDRAM
SDRAM Tested: 1 x 64MB PC100 SDRAM

Manufacturer: The Memory Man
Purchase Web-Site: http://www.memory-man.com

Manufacturer: Mushkin
Purchase Website: http://www.mushkin.com