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| Shuttle SS40 A Cult Is Born | ||
| (Review by MS, July 8, 2002) |
Performance
2D quality
In the beginning of this review we mentioned some insufficiencies in the 2D image quality of the FV24 at higher resolutions. The SIS 315 integrated graphics adapter does not have these issues, in addition, some filtering on the mainboard level may have been done to increase image sharpness. As in the case of the SIS 650, there is no reason to complain about the crispness of the display
SiSoft Sandra2002 SP1
SiSoftware just released their latest service pack of SANDRA 2002 with a few upgrades for the comparisons and also some new benchmarks, I would suggest for anybody to head over there and get it.We are only going to look into memory performance, that is specifically, the buffered memory bandwidth and the SS40 achieves some very respectable scores. Interestingly, the scores increased after installation of the 3dfx Voodoo5 PCI which makes sense since the AGP bus does no longer suck up memory bandwidth which is, after all required since there is no dedicated frame buffer / display cache.
Disabling the integrated AGP frees up memory bandwidth which is obvious from the increase in scores. Grey: Buffered integer bandwidth, red: buffered floating point bandwidth [MB/sec]. CL: CAS Latency; Fast / Turbo: DRAM performance settings; 315: integrated SIS 315 graphics, V5: VooDoo5 PCI graphics.
Cache Performance
With regard to the cache performance, chipset issues seem to make no difference at all, what counts is the raw clock speed of the CPU since the L1 and L2 caches are running at processor speed.
A new benchmark within SiSoft Sandra. Note that the purple line for the KT333 chipset reference matches the blue line for the test system, despite different memory speed, latencies and chipset. Bottom line here is that the CPU speed is the determining factor whereas platform differences appear not to matter.
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