The 6OJV is a pretty big board, and at 8.4” x 12.2,” a mid-sized tower should be standard. With an ATX connector at the upper right hand corner of the PCB, many a knuckle will be scraped while reaching behind a hard drive to plug the motherboard in. However, placing the Floppy Disk connector below the IDE connections makes for a much easier to manage bundle of cables.

Winbond’s W83627HF chip integrates much of the I/O control and hardware monitoring capabilities on the 6OJV. With the ability to monitor CPU core voltage, three fan headers, a remote CPU thermistor, and the “Case-Open” circuit,; we can see Chaintech has taken a significant stride to protect their customers’ investment.

Since the i815 is designed to support the Pentium III Coppermine and Celeron 2 families, the CPU interface is strictly FC-PGA Socket 370. We’d recommend sticking to standard cooling with the 6OJV since the DIMM slots and a few 1200-microfarad capacitors sit right next to the Socket interface potentially blocking an oversized heatsink.

Nearly every new motherboard we’ve seen for the past few months has arrived without an ISA slot. Chaintech’s 6OJV is no exception, and ships with a 1xAGP/6xPCI/1xCNR configuration, ideal for those with SCSI cards, TV cards, and PCI modems. For those of you with ISA parts, don’t expect to see many future products offering ISA support; it may be time to upgrade. To be PC99A compliant, a system cannot carry an ISA slot or ISA device, and PC99A compliance is extremely important to many OEMs, hence the demise of ISA. Business users with an urge for casual gaming but who don't want to buy a new video card may want to put a 4MB 133MHz SDRAM video cache into the AGP slot.