Black Beauty: AOpen AX6BC Pro II Millennium Edition

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.

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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
Patrick Schmid
Editor-in-Chief (2005-2006)

Patrick Schmid was the editor-in-chief for Tom's Hardware from 2005 to 2006. He wrote numerous articles on a wide range of hardware topics, including storage, CPUs, and system builds.