Gigabyte GA-6BXE Rev 2.0 Slot 1 ATX Motherboard Intel 440BX SDRAM PCI ISA

Gigabyte GA-6BXE Rev 2.0 Slot 1 ATX Motherboard Intel 440BX SDRAM PCI ISA

The Gigabyte GA-6BXE is an ATX form-factor system board built around the Intel 440BX chipset, designed for Slot 1 processors — supporting Intel Pentium II and Pentium III CPUs. Rev 2.0, confirmed by the PCB silkscreen, adds the board's CPU Over Voltage Protect feature visible on the Slot 1 connector. This is a clean, tested example from the late 1990s Pentium II/III era.

Specifications & What's Included

• Model: Gigabyte GA-6BXE, Revision 2.0
• Form Factor: ATX
• CPU Socket/Slot: Slot 1 (Intel Pentium II / Pentium III)
• Chipset: Intel 440BX AGPset
• Front Side Bus: 66 / 100 MHz
• Memory: 4x SDRAM DIMM slots (PC100/PC133)
• Expansion: 1x AGP, 4x PCI, 2x ISA
• I/O: PS/2 keyboard and mouse, 2x USB, Serial (COM1/COM2), Parallel (LPT1), Game/MIDI port
• CPU Over Voltage Protect feature (marked on PCB)
• Board only — no CPU, RAM, or accessories included

Applications

The GA-6BXE targets the late-1990s Slot 1 desktop platform, one of the most popular enthusiast and workstation chipsets of its era. The Intel 440BX chipset was widely regarded as the premier PC chipset of 1998–2000, supporting Pentium II and Pentium III processors at 66 and 100 MHz FSB. It was used heavily in corporate workstations, home builds, and small servers of the period. Today these boards are sought by retro-PC enthusiasts building period-correct Pentium II and Pentium III systems, as well as those maintaining legacy industrial or scientific computers that relied on this platform. The combination of ISA and PCI slots makes it particularly useful for systems that require older ISA expansion cards alongside modern PCI peripherals.