Testing The Millennium Board
The AX6BC Pro II ME is based on the BX-chipset, which means that it directly targets the overclocking crowd that likes to go for a unique motherboard. If I was going to purchase this board, I would expect millennium-like stability and functions. Or in other words: I expect a product that is a mirror of all advances in motherboard technology until today. Thus I played around with the board to find out what's behind the millennium hype. In addition to our standard benchmark runs I also tried the 153 MHz FSB speed setting and some hardware mixes.
| Hardware | |
|---|---|
| CPU | Intel Pentium IIIEB, 800 MHz |
| RAM | 1x 128 MByte SDRAM (Micron/Crucial)PC133, 7ns, CL2 |
| Hard Drive | Seagate Barracuda ATA, ST320430A20 GBytes, UltraDMA/66, 7200 rpm |
| Graphics Card | Asus V6600 AGP, nVIDIA GeForce 256, 32 MB SDRAM |
| Drivers & Software | |
| HDD/Motherboard/ AGP-Drivers | Windows 98 AGP DriverIntel Busmaster DMA Drivers 6.0 |
| Grahics Drivers | NVIDIA 5.08 (Win 98) or 3.68 (Windows NT) |
| DirectX Version | 7.0 |
| Operating Systems | Windows 98 SE 4.10.2222 AWindows NT 4.0 SP6a |
| Benchmarks and Settings | |
| Quake III Arena | Retail Versioncommand line = +set cd_nocd 1 +set s_initsound 0Graphics detail set to 'Normal', 640x480x16Benchmark using 'Q3DEMO1' |
| Expendable | Downloadable Demo Versioncommand line = -timedemo640x480x16 |
| Screen Resolution | 1024x768x16, 85 Hz |
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