Soltek's QBic EQ3901-300P SFF PC
To start our in-game testing, we ran through a batch of time demos with the OpenGL game Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory. Wolfenstein: ET is a free, standalone multiplayer game that is based on the original Return to Castle Wolfenstein that was released a few years back. It uses a heavily modified version of the Quake III engine, which makes it a very easy-to-use benchmarking tool. We ran the test using the "Fastest" setting at a low resolution of 640 X 480, using 16-bit color and textures. Running this test with a high-end graphics card, at these minimal settings, isolates processor and memory performance without being limited by the graphics subsystem.
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The MSI K8N Neo2 Platinum finished in first place in our custom Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory benchmark, beating the Soltek QBic EQ3901-300P by just over 3 frames per second. 3 FPS equates to only a 2.1% performance advantage for the K8N. Hardly a difference worth getting excited over...
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Next, we did some benchmarking with Epic's Unreal Tournament 2004. When we tested these systems with UT 2004, we ensured that all of them were being benchmarked with the exact same in-game settings and graphical options and we dropped the resolution and detail levels to isolate CPU and memory performance.
In our custom Unreal Tournament 2004 benchmark, the Soltek QBic EQ3901-300P was able to overtake the MSI K8N Neo2 Platinum, but the Winfast 755FXK8AA-8EKRS and MSI K8T Neo2-FIR were still a bit faster. Once again though, the performance delta was quite small, and would be imperceptible in any real-world situations.
