Advantages: reliable, very upgradable, fast and very over-clockable. Disadvantages: no HT support, only USB 1.1, did anybody get built in LAN?
...only really receiving 1.55v. Abit have been releasing BIOS every few months (latest is th7heh released 14/10/03) supporting newer CPU's and fixing bugs but they seem to forget about updating the Highpoint. Luckily it is easy to use CBROM to modify the BIOS file yourself and add in the BIOS from Highpoint's website. 2.351 is the latest at the moment. You should have no problems with the Highpoint as long as you keep it updated and make sure the driver ... ...can download the latest chipset drivers from Intel's website along with the latest Intel application accelerator (posh name for an ide driver). There is a great scene on the internet for this board and lots of modified BIOS's are available offering extra settings, higher voltages for CPU overclocking and other cool stuff. Bad things? USB is only v1.1 which means 11mbps - slow. I disabled it in the BIOS and added a seperate PCI addon card giving USB2 ...
tomsmith500 05.05.2004 (06.12.2009)
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