ABIT BH6 Motherboard
Abit

Design:

When it comes to design the BH6 is very good, the memory banks are easy to access even in a smaller chassis. The same goes for the IDE and Floppy connectors, they are all placed to the front of the motherboard in front of the memory slots.

The BH6 also features a full 2/5/1 (ISA/PCI/AGP) setup which should leave you with plenty of PCI slots. Of course the trade-off is that you have less ISA slots but since ISA cards are being replaced with PCI cards nowadays (heck, even internal modems use the PCI slot) this should be of no real concern. The one thing I can think of that is bad with the design is the location of the ATX power-connector. By putting it behind the CPU slot as ABIT has done you gotto stretch the power cable over the CPU, and by doing this you might interfere with the airflow from the CPU fan. The size of the BH6 is also very compact (considerably smaller than the older BX6) so it should fit nicely in to all ATX cases.

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