Benchmarks

System Setup

Intel Celeron 400
Abit BM6
Corsair PC-100 3.3v SDRAM - 1x128MB
nVidia reference RivaTNT - STB Velocity 4400
     Driver version 4.10.01.0152
Western Digital Caviar 26400 6.4GB EIDE HD

Special thanks to U-tron Technologies and Corsair Memory for test-bed systems and peripherals.

Benchmarks

(All tests run under a clean install of Windows 98)
Quake II 3.20 - 640x480x8
Ziff Davis Winbench 99 - 1024x768x16
     CPUMark99
     FPUMark
     Business Diskmark99
Ziff Davis Winstone 99 - 1024x768x16

Benchmarks
Benchmark	Score
CPUMark99	30.7
FPUMark	2200
Business Diskmark	2620
Business Winstone99	20.7
Quake2 Demo1 Software	30.7
Quake2 Crusher Software	18.3

From these results, it's clear that the ZM6 is a competitive performer, regardless of its chipset. You'll notice that we've upgraded our benchmark procedures to use the new Winbench 99 CPUMark 99, which more accurately portrays real-world performance for Celeron processors. The scores are lower than the single-processor scores from our recent Dual Celeron test, but considering the hardware difference, that's not too surprising.

For a < $100 motherboard, it holds its own quite well against Abit's own competitor board, the BM6, posting a higher Winstone99 and Disk Winmark result. After 36 straight hours of lopping tests, the board never crashed once, nor did it have any trouble testing our full-load setup (AGP, 5PCI, 1 ISA filled).