Taipei, Taiwan, Friday March 16, 2001- Rolotech recently reviewed ABIT's VH6-II and deemed it "rock solid". A solid performer on all fronts, the VH6-II is designed for a broader market than the dedicated overclocker. "The VH6-II is an interesting concept, because it is built for a multi-purpose machine that a home/workstation user will have." Rolotech was quick to note the new 686B SouthBridge which supports ATA-100. This means "you get fast 100Mb/sec burst speeds natively, so there's no need for separate add-on IDE controllers in order to maximise the performance of your IDE CD-ROM or hard-drive."
Rolotech continued to describe exactly what you get with the VH6-II: "Five PCI slots, one ISA slot and a single AGP slot are standard on this motherboard. It also comes with an on-board AMR slot – a definite plus considering the intended target audience...the number of corporate and business PC's that actually use AMR modems and sound-cards." If the VH6-II is not an overclocker's board, how does it fare? According to Rolotech the VH6-II is rock solid. "CPU support on this motherboard is solid across the spectrum – the VH6-II supports any and all FC-PGA Socket370 CPU, from a lowly Celeron or Cyrix Joshua all the way to a spiffy new PIII 1Ghz."
To support this processor range the VH6-II is equipped with 3 DIMM slots allowing a total of 1.5GB. Both SDRAM (ECC and non-ECC) as well as VC-SDRAM modules are supported. Excellent board design minimizes heat "all of the major components are arranged to minimize heat blockage." The VH6-II also has a "vast amount of space around the CPU Socket" for you to pack full of cooling equipment.
Of course, like virtually all ABIT motherboards, the VH6-II comes complete with SoftMENU 3. Writes Rolotech: "You can set everything from CPU core voltage and FSB speed to PCI/AGP multipliers directly within the BIOS, which makes system configuration a lot easier."
Rolotech couldn't end without one final comp |
