ABIT SE6 Socket-370 i815E ATX

The Test

In recent times, choosing a motherboard cannot be completely determined by a Winstone score. Now, many boards come within one Winstone point of each other and therefore the need to benchmark boards against each other falls. Therefore you should not base your decision entirely on the benchmarks you see here, but also on the technical features and advantages of this particular board, seeing as that will probably make the greatest difference in your overall experience.

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To be frank, the SE6 is a bit of a disappointment coming from ABIT.  We are not saying that the board has bad performance or poor stability.  In fact, the board performs very well and is highly stable.  The board even provides quite some settings for users to overclock their CPUs.  However, ABIT does not meet the expectations from users.  The choice of using SoftMenu II instead of SoftMenu III probably hurts them the most.  The lost of the 1MHz increments and some other settings can be the reasons for users to go for some other boards instead. 

On the other hand, again, the SE6 performs very well and maintains high stability.  If you want an i815E solution that can help to push your CPU to the ultimate limit, the SE6 might not be the first one on your list.  However, if you want to have a motherboard that is rock solid, and yet allow you to do some basic overclocking, the SE6 is a good option.