Benchmarks
I’m not really a fan of benchmarking, but I've taken
the time to come up with a few results from various benchmarking programs.
Whilst doing these benchmark's I ran the SB52G2 with the following hardware:
- Intel Pentium 4 1.8GHz 'Northwood'
- 256MB Crucial PC2100 Memory
- 40GB IBM 60GXP 7200rpm Hard Drive
- 60GB Seagate 5400rpm Hard Drive
I have compared the results from the SB52G2 to my Shuttle SS51G. Both system's were running the same specification hardware.
PCMark2002 is a series of benchmarks that tests your CPU
integer and floating point workloads, the memory subsystem (both L1 and
L2 caches, system memory and graphics memory), and hard disk drive performance.
As you can see by the graph above the SB52G2 came out slightly better
in most tests than the SS51G.
Here are the results from SiSoft Sandra's Memory Benchmark
test. Again there isn't much difference between the 2 system's. I personally
feel if the SB52G2 came up against the SB51G, in a comparison test there
wouldn't be much difference between the 2. Unfortunately I own a SS51G
so I wasn't able to compare the SB51G against the SB52G2.
Another popular benchmark test is PiFast. This basically calculates the constant Pi to 10 million places. This is a real test on CPU power and bandwidth. The SB52G2 came out best with this benchmark. The Intel chipset seems to have the edge on SiS.
Another benchmark...... The results from 3DMark2001SE. I didn't really want to do this test as I felt it wasn't really appropriate since the SB52G2 isn't designed for gaming. None the less here are the results. I was quite surprised by this as the SS51G gained slightly higher results than the SB52G2.
Onto the final benchmark. HEXUS SETI Benchmark. The 2 system's generally performed the same. Only 3 minutes slower with the SS51G. Nothing to be concerned about though. Yet again the SB52G2 performed better than the SS51G. Could this be down to the Intel chipset...?
