Benchmarks I
Now let's see how it performs. During the benchmarking sound was disabled.
First up is SiSoft SANDRA's Memory benchmark.
The Intel board edges this one. There is no surprise that the performance takes a hit using the onboard graphics.
Pifast, another of our standard tests, simply calculates the constant Pi to the desired number of decimal places. I've chosen 10 million using the fastest method possible.
Another victory for the Intel board. Interestingly there was less of an impact in the times using the Intel board 2.5secs rather than the more than 4secs with the Shuttle.
The next test will be MP3 encoding. We're benchmarking by encoding a 638MB custom WAV file (U2's Pop album) into 192kb/s MP3 using the LAME 3.92 encoder and Razor-Lame 1.15 front-end. This btw is another standard test.
Yet again the Intel snatches this one by the slenderest margin, but there was no change for times with onboard video.
DVD encoding next. I'm using 2-pass encoding via VirtualDub. Gone in 60 Seconds is the DVD of choice, resized to 720x304, precise bilinear and black borders cropped. YUV2 spacing is used and the bit rate is set to 1800 kbps. I encode a 24.05 minute section and calculate the average fps from there. DivX 4.12 is still my benchmarking CODEC of choice.
Things look good for the Intel offering, so far it's a clean sweep. But it's close.
