A heatsink on the Southbridge gets hotter than that on the Northbridge, it's especially noticeable in active network traffic modes. But the voltage regulator, despite no cooling, gets hot only in marathon tests that heavily load a processor. Even the FDD connector is not blocked by the bottom PCI slot - it's located near IDE connectors instead.īoth bridges get rather hot during intensive operations. All peripheral and power connectors are located along the edges, the only jumper (clear CMOS) is also easily accessible and is equipped with a 'handle'. That's not the first time when we have practically no gripes with the layout of a microATX motherboard. The board has a connector for the second COM port in addition to COM and LPT connectors on the rear panel.

Contrary to the modern tendency, two IDE connectors are preserved, the number of SATA connectors is also reduced to two. Besides, there are components, for example, hardware keys for professional software and specific devices (indispensable) manufactured by local inventors, which cannot be connected to USB/FireWire.Įngineers of WinFast 6100M2MA-RS2H evidently wanted to design a motherboard with conservative functionality for this group of users. So offices keep a great number of fully operational devices that require outdated COM, LPT, IDE ports. It's no secret that most corporate users are not eager to upgrade computers out of aesthetic reasons. Support for old interfaces can hardly be a competitive advantage for expensive motherboards, but there is no sin for entry-level models to take advantage of this argument. NVIDIA GeForce 6100 chipset (GeForce 6100 Northbridge and nForce 410 Southbridge).

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