One look at the lengthy spec sheet for the 6WMM7 gives you an idea of just how many things are packed onto this board, in a nutshell it boils down to three main components: Audio, Video, and the Mainboard Itself.

For Audio, Gigabyte has chosen the Yamaha 744 PCI sound processor, which we found adequate for the audience the 6WMM7 is intended for. It's no Vortex 2 sound system, but it puts the hurt down on the older SB16 chips we've seen some integrated boards utilize.

Video support falls to the Intel i810 chipset itself, which includes an integrated i752 video accelerator as part of the package.

The video abilities of the i810 aren't going to fool anyone into thinking that they've just purchased a board with a "free" TNT2 card on it, or even an original TNT for that matter, we'll cover this in more detail later in the article.

The mainboard's layout is a compact slew of jumpers, dip-switches, capacitors, slots, and silicon. Gigabyte has included their new "Dual-Bios" on the 6WMM7, meaning that they've physically mounted a completely independent 2nd BIOS chip on the board in case the first becomes corrupted or falls prey to a destructive virus.

Luckily the better parts of the i810 package are present and accounted for on the 6WMM7, including support for UltraDMA/66 hard drives as well as a full sized heat-sink to disperse the heat of the i810.

Installing the 6WMM7 takes some time and some patience, it's almost like building a new PC from the ground up thanks to all of the drivers that must be loaded for the board's audio and video components.

Thankfully Gigabyte has included a fairly well written instruction manual to ease the whole process, and they've also managed to physically label the board in many areas in case the manual is lost or destroyed.