In recent times, choosing a motherboard cannot be completely determined by a Winstone score. Now, many boards come within one Winstone point of each other and therefore the need to benchmark boards against each other falls. Therefore you shouldn't base your decision entirely on the benchmarks you see here, but also on the technical features and advantages of this particular board, seeing as that will probably make the greatest difference in your overall experience.
Test Configuration
| Processor(s): | Intel Pentium II - 266 (512K) |
| BIOS Revision: | Std BIOS |
| RAM: | 2 - 32MB Megatrends SDRAM DIMMs 2 - 32MB Corsair SDRAM DIMMs |
| Hard Drive(s): | Quantum Fireball ST (3.2GB) Ultra ATA |
| Video Card: | Matrox Millennium (2MB WRAM) |
| Busmaster EIDE Drivers: | Intel v3.01 |
| Video Card Drivers: | MGA Millennium 4.03.00.3410 |
| OS: | Windows 95 Service Release 2 |
| Notes: |
| Windows 95 Performance of the Chaintech 6LTM | |||
| CPU | Business Winstone 97 | High End Winstone 97 | Business Graphics Winmark 97 |
| Intel Pentium II - 375 | 71.6 | Not Run | Not Run |
| Intel Pentium II - 337.5 | 68.4 | 36.3 | 149 |
| Intel Pentium II - 332 | Not Run | Not Run | Not Run |
| Intel Pentium II - 300 | 67.5 | 35.6 | 140 |
| Intel Pentium II - 266 | 64.4 | 33.1 | 136 |
| Intel Pentium II - 233 | 61.6 | 31.5 | 120 |
At all clock speeds the Chaintech 6LTM smokes the competition. The new scores are 375MHz are truly amazing, especially for a motherboard produced by a manufacturer you've probably never even heard of =)
| Chaintech 6LTM Performance (Cont.) | |||||
| Chip | Quake Frame Rate | 3D Winmark 98 | Chris Dial's Benchmark | ||
| WinQuake | GLQuake | SVGA Bench | VGA Bench | ||
| Intel Pentium II 337.5MHz (AGP) | Not Run | Not Run | 407 | 100.3 fps | 187.8 fps |
| Intel Pentium II 337.5MHz (PCI) | 20.6 | Coming Soon! | 94.7 | 49.8 fps | 223.2 fps |
| Chaintech 6LTM Performance (Cont.) | ||||
| CPU | Business Winstone 98 | Business Graphics Winmark 98 | FPU Mark | CPU Mark32 |
| Intel Pentium II - 375 (AGP) | Not Run | Not Run | 1930 | 1006 |
| Intel Pentium II - 337.5 (AGP) | 22.9 | 161 | 1740 | 913 |
If you had asked me to recommend a Pentium II board other than the Megatrends FX83-A a few months ago, I would have told you to ask me another question. However now I believe the Chaintech 6LTM is a worthy successor to the FX83-A, at least until Megatrends has a chance to retaliate with the LX83. Even then I believe the 6LTM will hold its ground as one of the best Pentium II LX boards on the market, today and in the future.
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