The point here is we don't need a Dual, Triple, Quadruple, or even Quintuple redundant BIOS system for use "in the event that the first BIOS chip should fail". To us it's just not necessary, and we'd rather have the board be an additional $5 - $10 cheaper or whatever it would be without the gimmick of the second BIOS chip on it.

Our two cents folks, no more, no less.

During testing the DualBIOS system actually worked very well, if not invisibly, and did perform as advertised when the primary BIOS chip was removed from the board to simulate its failure.

The other features of the BX2000 are rather uniform to the rest of the market's similar products, with the exception of the use of dip-switches for selecting the CPU clock multiplier and front side bus speed. We always prefer a BIOS selectable CPU setting system over a hardware based format, but we'll take dip switches over arcane jumpers any day of the week (ASUS are you listening?)

The dip-switch package is very conveniently placed on the BX2000, and offers easy access for quick changes. Likewise, the ATX power connector is placed in the exact spot that Sharky Extreme has advocated for some time, just to the right of the Slot-1 connector. (The closest spot to the power supply itself).

The BX2000 is a very well laid out board, an ergonomic delight really, and it shows the thought and detail level that went into the board's basic design fundamentals.

The performance of the BX2000 was adequate if not superior to the average benchmark performance level of any given 440BX board.

The 440BX based boards we've tested have always been very consistent, and the BX2000 is no exception to that rule delivering scores that were toward the upper-middle end of our 440BX board database.

Stability wasn't a factor in the standard tests we performed on the BX2000 at its stock 66 and 100MHz speed levels. As we overclocked however we found stability to be more erratic with the BX2000 than with say an Abit BX6 R2.0 or AOpen's AX6BC+.

Although the BX2000 doesn't offer the myriad of FSB speed options that the Abit and AOpen boards do, it still allows some overclocking ability via the manually selectable dip-switch settings.

In our own tests, using PC-133 SDRAM, the BX2000 wasn't able to maintain a FSB speed of anything above 124MHz stabily, 133MHz would perform well initially but would result in Win98 blue screens after a few minutes of usage.

At the standard 112MHz overclock that most P2 and P3 users utilize for a quick and easy speed boost, the BX2000 performed well, with no errors reported during long term testing.