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AOPEN AX6B Plus (Part I)
by Overclocker (27/9/98)

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AX6B Plus Mainboard

First Impressions

AX6B Plus is one of the newer boards that AOPEN released recently. I am very happy that Overclockers' Workbench is one of the first site to do a review on this board.

The board comes in a orange coloured box. Inside contains the mainboard, 2 user guides (Adaptec 7800 Family Manager Set and AX6B User Guide).

Packaged in are a SCSI cable, 1 disk drive connector and 2 IDE cables. You will also find a metal plate for mounting onto the back of the mainboard to prevent dust from going into your COM1, COM2, LPT1 etc (which is usually available when you buy your casing).

There is also a CDROM which contains Norton Anti-Virus and other utilities. (You normally won't get Norton Anti-Virus packaged with other mainboards)

I took a quick glance at the manual. Wow, this is well written. I have never seen a manual that is so well documented. They even recommened using certain tested SDRAMs to get best performance. In the list are Micron, TI, Hyundai, Samsung, NEC and Siemens (with the respective model numbers).

The board comes with 4 PCI, 3 ISA, 1 AGP, 4 SDRAM Slots, On Board SCSI Adaptec AHA-7880P Ultra Wide SCSI Controller, SCSI Port 68-pin Wide SCSI & 50-pin FAST SCSI Connector. On the mainboard you will also see the Modem Wakeup and LAN Wakeup pin connectors.

The design is very much similar to the AX6BC which is one of the best boards around in the market today.

It supports :

Pentium II 233~333Mhz(Extra Bus Clock: 66Mhz),
Pentium II 350~450Mhz(Extra Bus Clock: 100Mhz),
Intel Celeron CPUs 300, 300A, 333Mhz(Extra Bus Clock: 66MHz)

Key Features

Support Intel New Generation Microprocessor Pentium II
Jumper-Less, Battery-Less Design
Support 100Mhz FSB (Clock Generator Support up to 133Mhz)
Switching Mode Voltage Regulator and CPU Voltage Auto-Detect
AGP/AGP Turbo Support
Adaptec Ultra Wide SCSI Controller on board (with Optional RAID Connector)
Fan Monitoring
System Voltage Monitoring
Thermal Protection
CPU core Over Current Protection
Ultra DMA/33 Bus Master IDE support
RTC Wake up Timer
Zero Voltage Modem Wake-up
LAN Wake-up
2Mb Flash ROM BIOS with ACPI support for PC98/Win'98
Suspend-To-Hard-Drives
Multi-Language BIOS Support
BIOS Virus Protection Function
Support DMI (Desktop Management Interface) Function
Support USB Hot Plug Function

Specifications

CPU   
Intel Pentium II CPUs
233~333Mhz(Extra Bus Clock: 66Mhz), 350~450Mhz(Extra Bus Clock: 100Mhz)
Intel Celeron CPUs
300, 300A, 333Mhz(Extra Bus Clock: 66MHz)
ASIC
Intel 440BX AGPset
Architecture
3 ISA slots + 4 PCI slots + 1 AGP Slots
Max. Memory   
1GB SDRAM or Registered SDRAM for DIMMx 4
DIMM Type
8/16/32/64/128/256MB
BIOS
AWARD Plug-and-Play Flash ROM BIOS
On Board I/O
2 Serial ports (UART 16C550 Supported)
1 Parallel port (SPP/EPP/ECP Supported).
2 Floppy Drive supported (1.2/1.44./2.88MB)
2 Channel IDE (Mode 4 & Ultra DMA/33 Bus Master Supported)
2 USB ports supported (Universal Serial Bus)
On Board SCSI
Adaptec AHA-7880P Ultra Wide SCSI Controller
SCSI Port
68-pin Wide SCSI & 50-pin FAST SCSI Connector
Battery
3V Lithium Battery
Green Function
Yes
Board Size
244 mm x 305 mm, ATX Form Factor

27 September 1998 12:26 PM