Small Form Factor Pentium 4 PC Roundup - March 2003

General Usage & Content Creation Performance

General Usage Performance Business Winstone 2002 (Score in Winstones - Higher is Better) Shuttle SB51G Soltek Qbic EQ2000 Jetway MiniQ 450 Shuttle SB52G2 33.7 33.0 32.8 29.2 | 0 | 7 | 13 | 20 | 27 | 34 | 4

The top three performers here all run within 3% of each other, which is at the limits of the normal variation for this test. The Shuttle SB52G2 is the only one that falls behind by a noticeable amount, mainly because of its 845GV chipset. Not only is this platform using Intel's integrated graphics core (which eats into main memory bandwidth), but the platform also only has support for DDR266 while the rest of the systems here are running DDR333. Since this is a corporate targeted platform, the fact that it is 13% slower than the SB51G is somewhat excusable, however why settle for worse performance?

Content Creation Performance Content Creation Winstone 2002 (Score in Winstones - Higher is Better) Shuttle SB51G Soltek Qbic EQ2000 Jetway MiniQ 450 Shuttle SB52G2 46.8 46.3 45.1 42.6 | 0 | 9 | 19 | 28 | 37 | 47 | 56

We see a similar situation in Content Creation Winstone 2003; the three DDR333 setups manage to outperform the SB52G2 by 8 - 10%.