I have a Asus P5k board with the intel p35 chipset and it would have been interesting to see the comparison between the abit board and asus board. I use to be a avid abit fan so it would be nice know how they stack up.

Totally off topic I know, but every time I see Abit mentioned I cringe.

Been a while, but I'm still bitter about the Abit BP6, I had high hopes for that board and together with those hopes it caused much grief and frustration(over the span of more than a year). Haven't used Abit since.

Yeah, I hold grudges.

This was the dual Celeron board right? Released about 6/7 years ago at a guess? That's a proper grudge you've got going on there!

You'll be incensed to hear I've owned several Abits (and played with a BP6 in the past) with no problems. Sorry! :-)

Not sure what the original grudge poster is on about.

My Abit BP-6 motherboard is still powering along nicely in 2007 with two Celeron 533Mhz CPUs and 384Mb RAM running RedHat 7.3 for my Kylix devlopment machine.

.... and am very happy with it. Few nice touches:

- really good layout. I fitted CPU cooler with 120mm fan (a very quite one) with no problems

- PWM controller for CPU fan - although I had to search for one (picked Scythe Kama) it just works at 600 RPM. Or stops completly when cooling is not needed - and it does not make me nervous. Also, all other fans are controlled by the motherboard (voltage regulation - not so reliable as PWM, but with good fans works just as well). Which makes for some really quite machine.

- uGuru - it's the first motherboard monitoring software I've seen that works well without administrative rights required (I use "power user" for almost everything). It also allows switching fan speeds AND CPU speeds without restart etc - all settings are just click away. Although it ships with ugliest skins ever seen, one can customize them (I use one from http://forum.uabit.com/showthread.php?t=110148 )