Lost Circuits on the ABIT BH7 , "The Legend Lives

Taipei, Taiwan, April 2nd, 2003- Legendary website Lost Circuits recently reviewed the ABIT BH7 and declares it, "Arguably the best bang for the buck right now when it comes to Intel performance desktop chipsets is the i845PE chipset."

From the review highlights below you can see why they find the very affordable but highly tweakable BH7 the inheritor of the famous BH6 crown:

"Five years ago, ABIT's BH6 changed the ways of the BX-chipset boards and set the switches for the path towards jumperless boards as we know them today. There has not been any BH"X" board since on the market but the legend entwining around the BH acronym has lived on. Needless to say that a continuation of the series should be something special like a limited edition board. Or rather, since, courtesy of a lack of volume, limited editions don't make money, maybe a limited features edition...

With respect to design issues, the voltage regulator module is probably the most critical design complex and with the BH7, ABIT is going all the way using the full capability of Intersil's HIP 6301CB programmable controller. That is, all four phases are enabled and to push things a bit further, internally, each phase is subdivided into two asymmetric MOSFETs with different timing characteristics for p- and n-channel to provide "staggered" switching.

It is certainly a move in the right direction to stick with one brand of known good quality capacitors and this is exactly what ABIT has done on the BH7, using Rubycons and Rubycons only, regardless of size, voltage or capacitance.

...overall it is very impressive what ABIT has brewed up with the BH7 and there is certainly going to be a market for this board, regardless of Canterwood, Turbowood and Springdale which we will see soon enough. Sure enough, there will be the extremists who are going to need the latest and greatest but there is also the price factor and we won't see any of the high-end boards at a price point below $100 which is where the BH7 is positioned."

For the full review please go here:
http://www.lostcircuits.com/motherboard/ABIT_bh7/

For more information on the ABIT BH7 motherboard, please go here:
http://www.abit.com.tw

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