Stability:
I didn’t encounter any stability problems with the ZM6 except slowdowns when I had
it running with 83Mhz front bus speed, however this was probably due to my IBM Deskstar5
harddrive.
The older UDMA IBM harddrives are known to be unstable when ran at a too high PCI bus
speed and at 83Mhz FSB the PCI busspeed is 41.5Mhz, quite a bit beyond the specification
of 33Mhz, and infact this little adventure resulted in a couple of corrupted files.
As of now I’ve only been able to test the ZM6 with a 333Mhz PPGA Celeron, and the
333Mhz Celerons are infact the least overclocking friendly of the bunch. This particular
Celeron "only" let me run it at 83 * 5 ~ 416Mhz and not at 500 without further
cooling.
The stability is really good.
Performance:
The ZM6 delivers performance that is fully on par with any other 100Mhz FSB Intel based
Socket370 or Slot1 based system.
I won’t go much deeper into performance questions as the ZM6 performance is almost
exactly what any other ZX based board delivers.
