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For the past nine months mainboard manufacturer Abit has been almost as timely as your local train schedule in deploying new mainboards.

Their newest release comes in the form of the BE6, which will likely be the final 440BX mainboard to come from the company until the launch of the new i820 chipset from Intel this November.

The BE6 takes everything Abit has learned from their previous 440BX experience and adds to it through more robust Soft Menu II BIOS settings as well as the addition of the new Ultra DMA/66 hard disk transfer protocol.

With so many highly refined and stable 440BX mainboards coming from large manufacturers this summer, many consumers are wondering if they can sneak by the more expensive i820 boards due this winter while enjoying a high-technology mainboard both now and in the future.

Lets see now if the BE6 can be considered as an early "i820 Lite" wolf in sheep's clothing…