Adrian was kind enough to give me the ABIT BF6 board that he reviewed as well as the ABIT HotRod 66 IDE card. My last system was an AMD K6-200 system on an ASUS TX97-E motherboard. Yeah, it's that old. :D

Anyway, the installation process was fairly simple. Well, at least physically, as I found out later. You see, I forgot that the BF6's BIOS hadn't been updated yet and therefore could not support the multiplier of 9X!!! Having no other Slot 1 or Socket 370 CPUs myself, I hunted around my block for one. Luckily, a friend of mine had a Pentium III 633EB, which could therefore work on the BF6. After using his CPU to boot the system, I flashed the BIOS with the latest update (UH). I then reinstalled the Celemine 600. Well, needless to say, it finally worked flawlessly.

So, a tip here to all inexperienced buyers of any motherboard. Make sure you remember to ask the dealer if it can support the CPU you intend to use it with, out of the box. Even for experienced buyers, it never hurts to make sure of this. It might save you all the trouble I’ve gone through… unless of course, you have tonnes of CPUs lying around your house. :)

Anyway, after some initial testings with SisSandra, it reports that my Celeron's Stepping is cB0. Sigh. Anyway, I don't think there's any cC0 ones here in Malaysia anyway, even my brother's 633MHz one is cB0.

Here are my system’s specs :-

Intel Celeron II 600MHz (cB0 stepping)
MSI 6905 Master slot converter (ver 2.3)
Evercool cooler
ABIT BF6 motherboard
ABIT HotRod 66 ATA66 card
128MB Hyundai PC133 SDRAM CL3 (running at CL2 @ <100MHz)
3dlabs Premedia3 Create! AGP graphics card
15GB Maxtor DiamondMax 40 Plus ATA66 hard disk
Creative Infra52X CD-ROM
HP CD-Writer 8100i (4432 converted to a 8432!)
Dlink DFE 538-TX 10/100 network adapter
Creative SB32 ISA sound card (from my old computer)
NEC MultiSync V500 Monitor
Logitech Deluxe 104 PS/2 keyboard
USB Microsoft IntelliMouse Explorer
HP Jornada 545 with USB cradle