ECS P6SSM Motherboard

April 2, 2001 Techno 0 Motherboards,

When it comes to overclocking the P6SSM it stood out to be a fair contender, considering it’s a Micro-ATX board. Owners of this board would rarely resort to extreme overclocking, yet it’s nice to see that the board is capable of handling some degree of overclocking. Stability of the P6SSM was well on par with our expectations. It rarely crashed on us, just on a few occasions when we tried to crank up the CPU beyond realistic expectations 🙂

Alright people, time to check the performance of the board.

Test Setup

System 1

Processor	Intel Pentium III 933MHz
Motherboard	P6SSM
Memory	128MB PC 133 Corsair memory
DirectX	8.0
Video Card	Integrated SiS 300 Graphics Controller
Hard Drive	Western Digital 75GXP 30 GB Hard Drive
Operating System	Windows 98 SE

System 2

Processor	Intel Pentium III 933MHz
Motherboard	Transcend TS-ASL3 (i815E)
Memory	128MB PC 133 Corsair memory
DirectX	8.0
Video Card	i815E Integrated Graphics Controller
Hard Drive	Western Digital 75GXP 30 GB Hard Drive
Operating System	Windows 98 SE

System 3

Processor	Intel Pentium III 933MHz
Motherboard	ASUS CUSL2 (i815E)
Memory	128MB PC 133 Corsair memory
DirectX	8.0
Video Card	Elsa Gladiac GeForce2 GTS
Hard Drive	Western Digital 153BA Ultra ATA 66 7200 RPM
Operating System	Windows 98 SE

Please note that the Elsa Gladiac GeForce2 GTS card used in system 3 was used in all boards in some tests. 3D Mark 2000, WinBench99, Sysmark2000, and Content Creation 2000 were used as testing benchmarks. As for sound, the on-board audio controller was used in all boards.

Benchmarks:

As the tests reveal, when it comes to 3D performance the SIS chipset fails pretty badly. The Transcend TS-ASL3 leads the race here since the i815E graphics controller includes the Intel SSE optimization codes. This yields a better performance than the SIS chipset. As we mentioned earlier, if your graphic requirements are limited, go with the integrated video.