Taipei,
Taiwan
R.O.C.
March
5,
1999-Recently
in
wake
of
the
new
wave
of
socket
370
boards,
Andy
Drake
did
a
round
up
of
competing
boards
which
included
the
ABIT
BM6
as
well.
The
ZX
chipset
uses
the
same
BX
core
and
"basically
the
ZX
is
pretty
much
on
a
par
with
the
BX
chipset
-
its
certainly
many
light-years
ahead
of
the
unfortunate
EX,
the
low
end
alternative
to
the
LX
chipset."
Designed
for
the
new
line
of
Celerons
the
ZM6
offers
the
best
low-cost
socket
370
solution
available
today,
"If
you
are
going
to
get
a
PPGA
Celeron
366
running
at
100Mhz
FSB
then
this
is
probably
the
board
to
do
it�K"
In
the
drive
to
make
the
ZM6
the
best
in
its
class,
new
features
were
added
to
the
already
fabulous
SoftMenuTM
II
"�Kit
has
been
improved
somewhat,
PCI
bus
dividers
are
now
selectable,
at
both
124
and
133Mhz,
giving
the
choice
of
either
124/3,
124/4,
133/3
and
133/4."
Also
rounding
out
the
full
features
of
the
ZM6
is
the
new
Hardware
Monitoring
suite,
"Hardware
Doctor"
that
uses
the
Windbond
chip.
"The
BIOS,
SoftmenuTM
II
apart,
provides
support
for
the
onboard
health
monitoring
of
the
Winbond
chip.
This
includes
the
ability
to
set
a
user
definable
alarm
which
sounds
when
the
cutoff
temperature
is
met.
As
someone
who
is
always
tweaking
his
system
Andy
like
to
explore
other
aspects
like
overclockability,
for
the
ZM6
he
notes
that
it
is
"an
excellent
board,
featuring
all
the
support
for
overclockers
we
have
come
to
expect
from
ABIT.
The
health
monitoing
and
extra
bus
speeds
means
that
this
board
offers
the
Celeron
overclocker
even
more
scope
for
a
bit
of
tweaking
then
the
now
legendary
BH6."
Overclocked
Stability
-
Celeron
300a |
4.5*100 | 100% |
4.5*112 | 100% |
Overclocked
Stability
-
Celeron
366
|
5.5*75 | 100% |
5.5*83 | 100% |