文章基本信息

标题：ABS Ultimate M6
作者：William O’Neal
期刊名称：Games for Windows
印刷版ISSN：1933-6160
出版年度：2004
卷号：January 2004
出版社：Ziff Davis Media Inc.

ABS Ultimate M6

William O’Neal

Price: $3,340

Rating: 3.6

ABS definitely has aspirations of competing with the big boys. To that end, its Ultimate M6 has many of the same components you��d find in the big boys�� machines: AMD Athlon 64 FX-51 processor, Asus SK8N nForce3 Pro 150 motherboard, and 1GB of PC3200 DDR 400. Unfortunately, there��s more to competing than buying the same parts. The Ultimate M6 is a fast machine��it scored a whopping 4,074 in 3DMark2003 with 4x AA and 8x AF turned on. And its game scores were fast, too. Unfortunately, it couldn��t run several games (Serious Sam: TSE, Jedi Knight: Jedi Outcast, IL-2) with AA and AF turned on. Thinking it could be a faulty card, I replaced the GeForce FX 5950, but the problems still occurred.

The Ultimate M6 does ship with some nice components. Storage comes in the form of two 80GB hard drives in a 160GB RAID-0 configuration, and everyone knows how much I like the Logitech Z-680 speakers. I was disappointed, though, that ABS opted for the on-board nForce audio instead of the Audigy 2 everyone else chose.

What��s Unique?

The Ultimate M6 shipped with a Plantronics headset that��s perfect for online games with voice support.