Bill J McMilleon wrote:

> To All,
>
> Just recently attended computer sale at Civic Center in Peoria, IL and
> saw an Abit BE-6 mobo. The specs said that it could handle the PIII 500.
> Intel has come out with the PIII 600 mhz cpu and I asked the vendor if
> the board could handle that processor. He said that it could if I
> upgraded to the latest BIOS.
>
> Can anyone confirm this? Will upgrading the bios allow the board to
> facilitate faster cpu's?

I cannot confirm it in the sense I don't own said board, but I do own a BX6,
it's predecessor, and it certainly will support faster CPUs. I don't see why
the BE6 will be any different when they're practically the same board.

> Does anyone know how this board performs with a Celeron (using the
> adapter for the 370 socket)?

Again the BX6 does and so does the BE6.

HTH,

Jose

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