Shuttle SDXi Barebones System
Our Test Systems and FutureMark's PCMark05
How we configured our test systems: When configuring our test systems for this article, we first entered their respective system BIOSes and set each board to its "Optimized" or "High performance Defaults". The hard drives were then formatted, and Windows XP Professional (SP2) was installed. When the Windows installation was complete, we installed the drivers necessary for our components, and removed Windows Messenger from the system. Auto-Updating and System Restore were then disabled and we set up a 1024MB 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.
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System 1:
Core 2 Extreme X6800 (2.93GHz)
Shuttle SDXi
2x1GB
Corsair PC-6400
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System 2:
Core 2 Extreme X6800 (2.93GHz)
Asus P5W DH Deluxe
2x1GB
Corsair PC-6400
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System 3:
AMD Athlon X2 6000+ (3.0GHz) Asus M2N32-SLI Deluxe (NVIDIA nForce 590 SLI)
2x1GB
Corsair PC-6400
10,000 RPM SATA Windows XP Pro SP2 nForce Drivers v9.35 NVIDIA Forceware v94.24 DirectX 9.0c |
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"The CPU test suite is a collection of tests that are run to isolate the performance of the CPU. The CPU Test Suite also includes multithreading: two of the test scenarios are run multithreaded; the other including two simultaneous tests and the other running four tests simultaneously. The remaining six tests are run single threaded. Operations include, File Compression/Decompression, Encryption/Decryption, Image Decompression, and Audio Compression" - Courtesy FutureMark Corp.
Comparing the synthetic CPU performance to the full size ASUS P5W DH Deluxe system shows the Shuttle SDXi offers the same potential as its full-sized counterpart.
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"The Memory test suite is a collection of tests that isolate the performance of the memory subsystem. The memory subsystem consists of various devices on the PC. This includes the main memory, the CPU internal cache (known as the L1 cache) and the external cache (known as the L2 cache). As it is difficult to find applications that only stress the memory, we explicitly developed a set of tests geared for this purpose. The tests are written in C++ and assembly. They include: Reading data blocks from memory, Writing data blocks to memory performing copy operations on data blocks, random access to data items and latency testing." - Courtesy FutureMark Corp.
FutureMark's PCMark05 Memory Performance test also showed the Shuttle SDXi to be on par with similarly equipped systems.
