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PCinsight has put up a review of the Soyo 6BA+IV. Along with a decent overclocking ability comes an integrated ATA/66 controller (Highpoint HPT366). Here is a clip...

What sets this apart from most of the BX boards on the market is the presence of an ATA66 controller (courtesy of the Highpoint HPT366 controller chip). As we will come to see in this review, the 6BA+IV offers plenty of features which places it among the best high-end Pentium III/Celeron motherboards available. As with all BX based motherboards, the only (official) restriction of this board is the support (rather lack-of support) for 133MHz bus CPUs. As usual, a bus speed of 133MHz on a BX platform forces you to run your AGP card at an out-of spec 89MHz. Nevertheless, the BX chipset is unrivaled in performance as compared to other offerings out there. Is this enough to persuade you into procuring a 6BA+IV?
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