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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