Abit
VT6X4 motherboard review
Posted by Thomas
McGuire on May 31, 2000
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Abit VT6X4 motherboard
The
VT6X4 represents Abit’s latest VIA based motherboard. It is a
combination of ABIT’s sophisticated technology & VIA’s
Apollo Pro 133a chipset (VT82C694X and VT82C686A). On its face
this motherboard offers the best of both worlds, support for
the 133Mhz bus & support for PC133 RAM. The other
motherboard/chipset that officially supports the 133Mhz bus is
the latest Intel motherboards but you must use (ludicrously
expensive) RDRAM with them, or SDRAM albeit with a severe
performance hit.
Installation
Motherboard
installation was uneventful & nothing out of the ordinary
was required, just slot in the processor & RAM, hook-up
the power supply to the motherboard… well you get the idea.
The manual is very helpful for those of you out there that may
be new to this sort of thing. So full marks to Abit for this.
For starters I installed the latest VIA
drivers. To ensure maximum compatibility & bug fixes that
they contain. Some people have said that the AGP driver is the
4.20 release is very slow although I’m running a PCI
graphics card so I can’t verify that but Tom’s
hardware can.
Abit
even saw fit to give you an OS with the VT6X4, Gentus Linux. I
haven’t used it myself (given my limited hard drive space),
but it’s quite nice to see Linux being included by a major
motherboard manufacturer.
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