System setup and notes
Hardware and Software
Test Platforms
| System | Shuttle P 2500G System | MESH Titan RD 1900 XT System | HEXUS AMD Athlon 64 FX-57 System | HEXUS Intel Presler 965 System | |
| Processor(s) | AMD Athlon 64 FX-60 @ 2.6GHz. 2MB L2 cache, dual-core | AMD Athlon 64 FX-60 @ 2.6GHz. 2MB L2 cache, dual-core | AMD Athlon 64 FX-57 (2.8GHz, 1MB L2 cache, single-core) | Intel Pentium Extreme Edition 965 (3.73GHz, 4MB L2 cache, dual core) | |
| Mainboard | Shuttle FN25 nForce4 (inside SN25P chassis) | ASUS A8R32-MVP Radeon Xpress 3200 CrossFire Edition | ASUS A8N32-SLI nForce4 X16 | Intel D975XBX | Chipset driver | NVIDIA 6.70 | ATI CATALYST 6.2 | NVIDIA 6.70 | Intel INF Update Utility 7.2.2.1006 |
| Memory | 2GByte (2x1024MB)Samsung PC3200 Original DDR SDRAM | 2GByte (2x1024MB)tksMK DDR SDRAM | 2GByte (2x1024MB)Corsair TwinX3500LL XMS PRO DDR SDRAM | 1GByte (2x512MB) Corsair XMS2-5400UL DDR2 SDRAM | Memory timings | 3-3-3-8 2T @ 400MHz | 3-3-3-8 2T @ 400MHz | 2-3-2-6 1T @ 400MHz | 3-2-2-8 @ 533MHz (DDR2) |
| Graphics Card(s) | ATI Radeon X1900 XTX 512MB | 2x ATI Radeon X1900 XT 512MB in CrossFire setup | ATI Radeon X1900 XTX 512MB | 2x ATI Radeon X1900 XTX 512MB in CrossFire setup (Master Card at XT speeds) | ATI Radeon X1800 XL 256MB | Graphics Card Driver | ATI CATALYST 6.2 | ATI CATALYST 6.2 | ATI CATALYST 6.2 | ATI CATALYST 6.2 | Disk drive(s) | Samsung 250GB SATA | Maxtor 400GB 16MB cache SATA | Seagate Barracuda 7200.9 SATA | Western Digital 160GB IDE | Monitor | Dell 2405FPW Widescreen (1920x1200) | Dell 2405FPW Widescreen (1920x1200) | Dell 2405FPW Widescreen (1920x1200) | Dell 2405FPW Widescreen (1920x1200) | Operating system | Windows XP Pro SP2 | Windows XP Home SP2 | Windows XP Pro SP2 | Windows XP Pro SP2 |
Benchmark Software
ScienceMark 2.0 (21st March 2005)HEXUS.in-house Cryptography Benchmark
HEXUS Pifast Benchmark
Realstorm Raytracing 2004
CINEBENCH 2003 multi-CPU render
HEXUS.in-house MP3 Encoding Benchmark using LAME 3.97a (Intel HT compiler) - 701MB WAV
HDTach 3.0.1.0
KribiBench v1.1
Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory - HEXUS custom benchmark
Quake 4 HEXUS Custom Benchmark
Far Cry - HEXUS custom benchmark
Notes
There were no problems to report during testing of the Shuttle P 2500G system. Being a high-end part, we've compared its performance to MESH's RD 1900 XT CrossFire system we reviewed recently. Further comparisons have been made against our high-end AMD Athlon 64 and Intel Pentium Extreme Edition machines, both of which feature low-latency memory.Our sample model shipped without AMD's Cool'n'Quiet power-saving driver installed. We hope to see shipping models with it applied, simply because factors such as heat and noise become more important when considering and evaluating an SFF design.
That's a healthy spec. for a small form factor PC, isn't it?
