Unevenly Matched Mini-Trio: MSI vs. Shuttle vs. Saintsong

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Performance Analysis: MSI Vs. Shuttle Vs. Saintsong

Test Setup And Details

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Intel Hardware (Socket 478)
Processors - 133 MHz FSB - 533 MHz Memory Clock	Pentium 4 3.06 GHz (3066 MHz) w/ HT
Motherboards and Memory	Gigabyte GA-8GE667 Pro (Intel 845 GE chipset) Revision: 1.012 x 256 MB DDR 400, OCZ, CL 2.0, PC 3200
Driver	Intel 845 GE DriverV 6.13.01.3317Intel IAA DriverV 2.3
AMD Hardware (Socket 462)
Processors - 166 MHz FSB - 166 MHz Memory Clock	Athlon XP 2700+ (2166 MHz)
Motherboard and Memory	Asus A7N8X (NVIDIA NForce 2) Revision: 1.02Shuttle FN41 (Nvidia Nforce 2 chipset)Revision: 1.42 x 256 MB DDR 333, Infineon, CL 2.0, PC 2700
Drivers	nForce2 DriverVersion: 2.77 Package
Common Hardware
Graphics Card	Nvidia GeForce 4 Ti 4600Memory: 128 MB DDR-SDRAMMemory Clock: 325 MHzChip Clock: 300 MHz
Hard Drive	40 GB, 6L040J2, MaxtorUDMA100, 7200 rpm, 2 MB Cache
Network	D-Link DFE-530TX (10/100 Mbit)
CDROM	Asus 52x
DirectX	Version: 8.1
OS	Windows XP, Build 2600 SP1
Benchmarks and Settings
Bapco Sysmark 2002	Version 1.0
Quake III Arena, Patch V1.16	640x480 - 16 bit / 1024 x 768 - 32 bitTimedemo1 / demo demo001 / nv15democommand line = +set cd_nocd 1 +set s_initsound 0Graphics detail = Normal
3DMark 2001 SE	Version 1.1 - Build 340 - Patch Build 3301024 x 786 - 32 bitDefault Benchmark
PC Mark 2002 Pro Pack - Build 100	CPU and Memory Tests
SiSoftware Sandra 2003 SP1	CPU MultiMedia / CPU Arithmetic / Memory Bandwidth Benchmark
Winrar - Version 3.11	178 MB Wave file, Compression = Best, Dictionary = 4096 kB
magix - mp3 maker platinum - Version 3.04 D	178 MB Wave file, 44100 Hz, VBR = on and Quality
Main Concept MPEG-2 Encoder	DV to MPEG-2 file encodingVideo + Audio, 1,2 GB source file
Unreal Tournament 2003 - Patch 1 1080	1024 x 768 / 32 bit / Audio = offbenchmark.exeTexture Detail = Normal, Character Detail = NormalWorld Detail = Highest, Physics Detail = Highall = on, Decal Stay = High