X², UT2003, Quake III

A nice-looking benchmark that just about highlights the differences in chipset performance.

The custom bot match, run from build 2225 of the retail game, puts the onus on the subsystem perhaps more than any other gaming benchmark. That's probably why the Shuttle falls over 10FPS behind the Canterwood. The Athlon 64 3200+'s impressive power allows Shuttle's other SFF, the SN85G4, to take top spot.

Quake III may not be the best game to test modern GPUs with, but it remains an excellent system test, especially with a Radeon 9800 PRO in situ.