Legit Processor Reviews
Intel ATOM 230 versus VIA Nano L2100 - Battle of the Mini-ITX Platforms
| Manufacturer: | VIA Technologies, Inc. |
| Product: | Intel Atom Versus The VIA Nano |
| Date: | Fri, Aug 01, 2008 - 12:00 AM |
| Written By: | Nathan Kirsch - |
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Benchmark Results: The Western Digital VelociRaptor was used as a secondary drive on both systems and the results were nearly identical other than the burst rate and CPU usage! Both boards averaged 101.5MB/Sec when it came to the transfer rate and had ~7ms access times. The burst rate on the Intel Atom 230 based board was ~12MB/Sec higher and the CPU usage was lower, which is a good thing. The VIA reference board with the Nano L2100 processor running at 1.8GHz was used more for this benchmark. The same hard drive on a ATX platform with current chipsets had a burst speed of 179.4 MB/s, so these mini-ITX boards do take a performance hit since they are using older chipsets. The VelociRaptor hard drive is still impressive on these boards though.
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Page 1 - The Battle of Mini-ITX Platforms
Page 2 - Intel BOXD945GCLF Motherboard Page 3 - Intel BOXD945GCLF BIOS Page 4 - The Via Nano Reference Motherboard Page 5 - The Test Systems Page 6 - HD Tune v3.10 Page 7 - Sandra XII SP2C Page 8 - PCMark Vantage Page 9 - Photodex ProShow Gold 3.2 Page 10 - POV-Ray 3.7 Beta 25 Page 11 - Cinebench R9.5 Page 12 - Futuremark 3DMark06 - CPU Page 13 - Playing HD Media Content Page 14 - Power Consumption and Final Thoughs |
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