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Abit BE6 questions

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breez

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What's the difference between 1.0, 1.2 and 2.0 revisions? I'm going to get Abit BE6 rev 1.0 (only 20 euros) to replace my Asus P2B which has poor FSB settings for OC. I'm running with 1.3GHz T-celeron with powerleap adapter rev 2.0. Could someone list the available FSB and PCI divider settings for rev 1.0.

I think my celeron can do 1500-1600MHz easily as it posts at 1733MHz with default voltage. I would use the 112 FSB on my Asus, but it's not stable whatever cooling or voltage I use. This is my brothers old board and he told me that he never got it to work properly with 112FSB.


Thanks in advance for any replies
 
Yep, BE6-II v1.0 and v1.1 have the hpt366 ATA66 controller, v1.2 has the hpt370 ATA100 controller and the 2.0 also has the htp370 ATA100 controller with RAID available. If you're not using RAID I wouldn't worry to much about ATA66 or ATA100 cuz no HDD today is even gonna get close to a 66MB/sec transfer rate. There is a big difference between ATA33 and ATA66 and up though because of a different (80wire) IDE cable etc. My Maxtor D740-X ATA133 drive does fine on my BE6-II v1.1's htp366 controller for now.
 
But the board is BE6 not BE6-II. This BE6 has HPT366 controller and that's the second reason why I'm getting this. My new Seagate Barracuda IV would be much better with ATA66 than ATA33.

Is the only difference between BE6 and BE6-II the FSB settings (one mhz accurate with BE6-II)? I checked Abit's site for the manual and found it. Available fsb settings from 100 and up are 100, 105, 110, 112, 115, 120, 124, 133, 140, 150. I'm hoping to hit 115-124 FSB with this board.
 
Sorry I didn't get your's was a BE6, well the main difference between BE6 and BE6II is softmenu2 and softmenu3 and maybe a 1/3 and 1/4 PCI divider (not sure about that one though) so indeed you'll need a BE6 specific BIOS. That '70' version won't work...
 
OK, should the newest bios for be6 work with tualatin? Sometime ago I tried this tualatin on my dads bx6 rev2 and it managed to post. Never tested further, because I was just checking if the processor was okay (had some problems with booting on this P2B). Can't remember if the bios on the bx6 has been updated or not.

In the BE6 manual there seems to be 1/4 divider for 124 fsb and up.
 
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