We'll give you a fairly comprehensive analysis on performance with this new Mini PC from Shuttle.  PCMark 2002 gives a decent metric on general Windows desktop performance, with applications like JPEG decompression, MP3 Audio conversion and text search functions.

Benchmarks With The Shuttle XPC SB51G Moving right along

Here we've compared performance of the new i845GE driven Shuttle XPC, versus their SS51G XPC, which is driven by the SiS651 chipset.  Both are DDR333 capable solutions, both support a 533MHz system bus and all the latest features for connectivity.  The SB51G edges out the SiS driven unit by a hair in every test within the PCMark 2002 Benchmark.  Memory bandwidth looks to be the greatest advantage for the SB51G but even that is negligible at roughly 2%.

Next we decided to run through some gaming benchmarks, with a full range of resolutions and image quality settings, to give you an idea of what you can expect from this type of mini PC.  Our system was configured with a modest but cost conscious GeForce 4 Ti4400 graphics card, which drops in at under $200 these days.  The scores put forth here by the Shuttle SB51G, are right on par with a similarly configured full size system.  Breaking well over 11K in the default 1024X768X32 setting, with a GeForce 4 Ti card, is definitely keeping up with the Jones'.  Can you say Radeon 9500 Pro?  This system screams for that type of DX9 capable card with a good price/performance ratio.

Just to say "we did", we through together some Quake 3 numbers for you.  Again, these tests were taken with a 2.26GHz Pentium 4.  Our Anisotropic Filtering settings were set to 8X on the OpenGL slider in the control panel, or "64 Tap".  Image quality with 4X AA and 64 Tap Aniso certainly is sweet, at 1024X768.   The GeForce 4 and Shuttle SB51G power nearly 88 fps, which is plenty fast for hard core death matching.

By the way, we've intentionally left out the benchmarking for the integrated i845GE graphics.  With an 8MB frame buffer max, you can guess the performance level.  However, for those who don't need to game on to any great degree (think Solitaire here at best), the chipset's desktop 2D capabilities are more than adequate.

UT2003 Testing And The Rating