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Gigabyte GA-686LX4 - motherboard - ATX - Slot 1 - i440LX overview and full product specs on CNET. GIGABYTE W480 VISION W LGA 1200 Intel W480 SATA 6Gb/s ATX Intel Motherboard. Memory Standard: Intel Xeon W-1290/W-1270 series processors / Intel Core i9/i7 processors: Support for DDR4 2933/ 2666/ 2400/ 2133 MHz Intel Xeon W-1250 series processors / Intel Core i5/i3/Pentium/Celeron processors: Support for DDR4 2666/ 2400/ 2133 MHz Support for ECC Un-buffered DIMM 1Rx8/2Rx8 memory. Gigabyte supplied AnandTech with their latest concoction, the GA-BX2000. As the name is intended to imply, the BX2000 is the motherboard of the future, but it starts out as being a motherboard.

AMD B550 Ultra Durable Motherboard with Pure Digital VRM Solution, PCIe 4.0 x16 Slot, Dual PCIe 4.0/3.0 M.2 Connectors, GIGABYTE 8118 Gaming LAN, Smart Fan 5.

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SST-5896 ASKA Slot 1 VIA Apollo Pro133
SST-6810 ASKA Slot 1 Intel 810
SST-6814 ASKA Slot 1 Intel 810
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SUPER P6SKE II Supermicro Slot 1 Intel 440FX
SUPER P6SKS Supermicro Slot 1 Intel 440FX
SUPER P6SLE Supermicro Slot 1 Intel 440FX
SUPER P6SNE II Supermicro Slot 1 Intel 440FX
SUPER P6SVA Supermicro Slot 1 VIA Apollo Pro Plus
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SY-6BA+ 100 SOYO Slot 1 Intel 440BX
SY-6BA+ III SOYO Slot 1 Intel 440BX
SY-6BA+ IV SOYO Slot 1 Intel 440BX
SY-6BB SOYO Slot 1 Intel 440BX
SY-6IBM SOYO Slot 1 Intel 440BX
SY-6ICA SOYO Slot 1 Intel 820
SY-6IWM/L SOYO Slot 1 Intel 810
SY-6IZM/3 SOYO Slot 1 Intel 440ZX
SY-6VBA 133 SOYO Slot 1 VIA 693A
SY-6VCA SOYO Slot 1 VIA 694X
Tahoe AT TYAN Slot 1 Intel 440FX
Tahoe Plus ATX TYAN Slot 1 Intel 440FX
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Thunder 100-GX TYAN Slot 1 Intel 440GX
Thunder 2 ATX TYAN Slot 1 Intel 440LX
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Tsunami AT TYAN Slot 1 Intel 440BX
Tsunami ATX TYAN Slot 1 Intel 440BX
VA6 ABIT Slot 1 VIA VT82C693A
VB-601 FIC Slot 1 Intel 440BX
VT6X4 ABIT Slot 1 VIA VT82C694X
WB6 ABIT Slot 1 Intel 810E
WinneX 2E QDI Slot 1 Intel 810E
WinneX 3 QDI Slot 1 Intel 810
WinneX 3E QDI Slot 1 Intel 810E
WS133 IWILL Slot 1 Intel 810e
ZillioX 5 QDI Slot 1 Intel 443ZX
ZillioX 6 QDI Slot 1 Intel 443ZX
ZillioX 9 QDI Slot 1 Intel 443ZX
P2-100B EPOX Slot 1 VIA Apollo Pro Plus
SST-5882 ASKA Slot 1 VIA Apollo Pro133

Motherboard Specifications

Processor

  • Intel Pentium® II Processor 350MHz-550MHz(for 100MHz system Bus).
  • 233-333MHz (for 66MHz system buse setting).
  • Slot 1 Socket for Future Expansion.

Chipset

  • Intel 82440 BX AGPset
  • iTE 8671I/O (1Mb/S)

Cache memory

  • CPU Built-in 256KB/512KB L2 cache

System Memory

  • 3 x 168-pin 3.3v DIMM sockets support
  • Supports 8/16/32/64/128/256 MB DIMM Module
  • Supports EDO RAM, SDRAM (Support ECC, 72 bit)
  • Supports 8MB to 1GB DRAM Size
  • Supports 66/75*/83*/100/112*/133* MHz System Clock Speed Setting
  • Supports 3--5.5 Multiplier Setting

PCI IDE

  • 2 X PCI Bus Master UDMA/33 IDE ports (up to 4 ATAPI Devices)
  • Supports for PIO Mode 3, 4, UDMA/33 IDE & ATAPI CD-ROM

I/O Interface

  • 1x floppy port (360KB-2.88MB)
  • 2x serial ports (16550 high-speed)
  • 1x parallel port (SPP/EPP/ECP)
  • PS/2 Keyboard
  • PS/2 Mouse
  • 2x USB

Expansion slot

  • 4 x PCI 32-bit slots, PCI 2.1 compliant
  • 3 x ISA 16-bit slots
  • 1x AGP (1x & 2x Mode,66/133MHz) slot
  • Support Cretive PCI Sound Card SB-Link&trade

Power Management

  • Power On by PS/2 Keyboard,
    PS/2 Mouse, LAN, RTC Alarm,
    Modem Ring & Soft-Power
    Switch
  • Power Off by Windows® 95
    Shut down & Soft-Power
    Switch
  • AC Recovery On/Off Control
  • Supports Fan Stop During
    Suspend Mode
  • Power Off by Windows® 95 Shut down & Soft-Power Switch

Form Factor

  • ATX Form Factor, 4 layer PCB
  • ATX Connector on Board
  • Double Deck ATX Back Panel

BIOS

  • 2 Mbit (256KB) FLASH EEPROM
  • Award PCI BIOS with Green, PnP, DMI, INT13 (HD>8.4)and
    Anti-Virus Functions
  • LS120, ZIP, ATAPI CD-ROM, IDE #1, #2, #3, #4 Bootable

<Introduction><The Good><The Test><TheBad><Conclusion><Rating>

Introduction

Gigabyte has been producing motherboards ever since the 486s era. Stability has always been the main focus for the design of their mainboards. Following closely to the specifications given by Intel, it has been a known fact that the mainboards produced by Gigabyte will only support the conventional conservative settings like the 66Mhz and 100Mhz bus speed. Due to this fact, many overclockers who want their money worth are giving this brand a miss. Today, faced with the increasing competition by other mainboard manufacturers, Gigabyte has released the GA-6BXC Slot-1 motherboard. So what is it that its so great about this board? The answer is, without deviating from its focus of stability, Gigabyte has introduced to this motherboard an additional selection of other bus speeds like the 75Mhz, 83Mhz, 112Mhz and 133Mhz. With a wider selection of bus speed to play with, the option of overclocking is no longer limited. Let's find out how this board fare.

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The Good

The board comes in 30.5cm x 18cm ATX size and feature 3 DIMM slots with 4/3/1 expansion slots. Layout of the board is neat with markings clearly labeled on the 4 layer PCB. The IDE connector is located just on the right edge of the motherboard and this means that you will not have any messy data cable criss-crossing over your motherboard. The GA-6BXC uses DIP switches instead of the cumbersome conventional jumpers. However, it will even be more convenient if Gigabyte could move on to a jumperless design in its next generation of mainboards.

Initial setup of the board is a breeze. DIP switches settings are clearly labeled both in the manual as well as on the mainboard itself. However, the unofficial bus speed settings could only be found on the motherboard itself. Reknown for the fact of producing stable and reliable motherboards, the GA-6BXC live up to Gigabyte's standard when I conducted the tests on it. The unofficial 112Mhz setting was found to be rock-stable when I tweaked my P2-266MHz to 336MHz. In addition, the conventional 66MHz and 100MHz setting needless to say give stable results with my P2-300 (2.0V).

The Test

The 2.0V P2-300MHz chip was used for the testing of this board. With multiplier locked at 4.5x, the maximum speed I could push the chip to was at 450MHz @ 100Mhz x 4.5. When set at 112MHz, the system could only reach as far as POST before it hang. However, like all other boards that I've tested with, the 300 chip that I used could not run @ 504MHz, hence, it wasn't actually the fault of the GA-6BXC. I then proceeded on to test the board with my P2-266MHz chip. With the 112MHz setting, I could push the chip up to 336MHz with a multiplier setting of 3x. The system was totally stable at this setting without having to increase my core voltage of the chip. However, I was not able to boot up to Windows 98 at 350MHz setting when I set the dip switches to 100x3.5. This was due to the reason that the GA-6BXC support auto voltage detection and hence, not allowing me to tweak the voltage up. As for the 133MHz setting, the Mitsubishi SDRAM which I used did not allow the system to POST at all.

Test Configuration

Processor(s):Pentium II - 266 & 300 (2.0V) Retail
RAM:2 - 32MB Mitsubishi PC100 SDRAM DIMM
Hard Drive(s):Quantum SE 2.1Gb
Video Card(s):ASUS SiS AGP - V1326 (4MB SGRAM)
Bus Master Drivers:Windows 98 Bus Mastering Drivers
Video Drivers:SiS 6326 Rev C3 4.0
Operation System(s):Windows 98 (build 4.10.1998)

Jumper Settings :

ExternalCPU Bus Setting SW1

Gigabyte Slot 100

CPU Bus (MHz)

AGP Bus (MHz)

DP1

DP2

DP3

DP4

50

50

ON

ON

ON

ON

66

66

ON

OFF

OFF

ON

75*

75

ON

ON

OFF

ON

83*

83

ON

OFF

ON

ON

100

66

OFF

OFF

OFF

OFF

112*

75

OFF

ON

OFF

OFF

133*

89

OFF

OFF

ON

OFF

CPUMultiplier Settings SW2

Multiplier

DP1

DP2

DP3

DP4

3.0x

ON

OFF

ON

ON

3.5x

OFF

OFF

ON

ON

4.0x

ON

ON

OFF

ON

4.5x

OFF

ON

OFF

ON

5.0x

ON

OFF

OFF

ON

5.5x OFFOFFOFFON
CPU (1) Intel Pentium II with MMX@333 MHz
Video Board SiS 6326
Video Mode 800x600@16bits/pixel
RAM 64 MB
OS Windows 98 4.10.1998
Area Tested Value
CPU Integer 938.2318 MIPS
CPU Floating Point 379.3672 MFLOPS
Video(2D) 65.41332 MPixels/s
Direct3D 40.8451 MPixels/s
OpenGL 10.91261 MPixels/s
Memory 597.3259 MB/s
Cached Disk 80.02657 MB/s
Uncached Disk 2.30476 MB/s
CPU (1) Intel Pentium II with MMX@450 MHz
Video Board SiS 6326
Video Mode 800x600@16bits/pixel
RAM 64 MB
OS Windows 98 4.10.1998
Area Tested Value
CPU Integer 1272.6518 MIPS
CPU Floating Point 519.9482 MFLOPS
Video(2D) 72.42132 MPixels/s
Direct3D 40.9319 MPixels/s
OpenGL 12.13261 MPixels/s
Memory 773.9149 MB/s
Cached Disk 96.32637 MB/s
Uncached Disk 2.21321 MB/s
CPU (1) Intel Pentium II with MMX@300 MHz
Video Board SiS 6326
Video Mode 800x600@16bits/pixel
RAM 64 MB
OS Windows 98 4.10.1998
Area Tested Value
CPU Integer 847.3816 MIPS
CPU Floating Point 345.3539 MFLOPS
Video(2D) 54.62185 MPixels/s
Direct3D 31.12808 MPixels/s
OpenGL 8.385799 MPixels/s
Memory 516.2192 MB/s
Cached Disk 68.32522 MB/s
Uncached Disk 1.94326 MB/s

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The Bad

Gigabyte is seen as taking a big step forward by introducing some of the unofficial bus speed settings to the GA-6XBC. However, it will even be a bigger step if they could introduce more unofficial settings like the 103MHz or the 124MHz. In addition, it will be perfect if the DIP switches could be replaced with a CMOS control jumperless setup for configuring the multiplier and bus speed setting. Also, the location of the DIP SW1 (for setting of the external bus speed setting) would be more accessible if it was placed beside SW2 instead of between the CPU and the DIMM slots.

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Conclusion

The GA-6BXC lives up to the good old tradition of Gigabyte. Not only does it peform stabily at the conventional bus speed settings, the GA-6BXC also produces rock-stable setting with its bus speed set at 112MHz. Priced at a very affordable range, this board will definitely be in your consideration list if there is ever a need for you to upgrade to a SLOT-1 motherboard.

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MOTHERBOARD RATING

Overall Rating (Out of a maximum of 5 Star)

Installation****
Performance****
Price****
Overclockability***
Material Quality****
Stability****1/2
Overall Rating****

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