"I am impressed with the board. A lot of features, and great stability on an entirely new chipset... this is the board I recommend."Joel Kleppinger, the main mainboard man at Systems Optimization, has written a solid review of the ABIT ZM6. One of the words that keep coming up in the Sysopt review is "Stability". Well an ABIT board based on the BX core you can see how that would be. "Very good stability, great compatibility. The ZX chipset shouldn't detract for most users, but should be welcomed because of good stability, compatibility, and should lower motherboard costs." And with the ZM6 ABIT did not hold back at all, the ZM6 has "excellent layout for what should be a low-cost board; the 1/5/2 layout is still my favorite. ABIT did well to add an extra DIMM slot and PCI slot even though not they aren't fully supported by the chipset." With the ZM6 you get ABIT's new hardware monitoring suite, "Hardware Doctor" It is based on the Windbond Hardware Chip and gives you 3 temperature sensing capabilities including CPU and System. "It's great to see that they have a full list of monitoring functions including system temperature, fan speeds, voltages, and even the CPU temperature." "Also, ABIT didn't slack and pull some of the voltages, but left all the same options as in their other boards 1.3-2.3v selectable through the Soft-Menu (which still rocks... you never want to go back to jumpers)." "...when I realized that it had nearly all the features of the BX6 II, but would probably cost 30-40 dollars less, I was amazed...you could save a bundle by choosing this and a socketed Celeron. I recommend this over the BX version because very few people will miss the higher limits set by the BX chipset and it should be quite a bit cheaper. If you...go this route, this is the board for you..." |