Shuttle SB95P v2 SFF XPC

How we configured our test systems: When configuring the test systems for this review, we first entered the system BIOS and set each board to their "Optimized" or "High-Performance Defaults".  The hard drive was then formatted, and Windows XP Professional with Service Pack 2 was installed. When the installation was complete, we hit the Windows Update site and downloaded all of the available updates, with the exception of the ones related to Windows Messenger. Then we installed all of the necessary drivers, and removed Windows Messenger from the system altogether. Auto-Updating and System Restore were also disabled, and we setup a 1536MB permanent page file on the same partition as the Windows installation. Lastly, we set Windows XP's Visual Effects to "best performance", installed all of our benchmarking software, defragged the hard drives and ran all of the tests.

Test System Specifications All Intel All The Time

Preliminary Benchmarks With SiSoft SANDRA 2005 Synthetic Testing Starts with SANDRA

We began our testing with SiSoftware's SANDRA, the System ANalyzer, Diagnostic and Reporting Assistant. SANDRA consists of a set of information and diagnostic utilities that can provide a host of useful information about your hardware and operating system. We ran three of the built-in sub-system tests (CPU Arithmetic, CPU Multimedia, and Memory Bandwidth) that partially comprise the SANDRA 2005 suite of benchmarks.  All of these tests were run with the Shuttle SB95P powered by an Intel Pentium 4 550 3.4GHz CPU with 1GB of Corsair DDR2 and compared against similar systems from SANDRA's database.

SANDRA CPU Arithmetic Benchmark Pentium 4 550 @ 3.4GHz 1024MB DDR2 (CL4)

SANDRA Memory Benchmark Pentium 4 550 @ 3.4GHz 1024MB DDR2 (CL4)

SANDRA CPU Multimedia Benchmark Pentium 4 550 @ 3.4GHz 1024MB DDR2 (CL4)

In all three areas we tested, the SB95P produced scores that were almost exactly comparable to a 925 board in SANDRA's database.  The CPU performance in particular was right on target, with only a few points separating our real-world results from the stock scores.  Memory bandwidth was down from the expected results, with our 925XE based board producing results more typical of an 875P.  What should be taken out of these results is the fact that Shuttle's system doesn't lack any of the power of a full-sized system; the SB95P consistently scored at or near the top of the charts in all performance areas.