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Shuttle XPC X200

By Vincent Chang - 4 Apr 2007

BIOS Options & Test Setup

BIOS Options & Test Setup

As we expected, the BIOS options on the Shuttle X200 is sparse compared to most motherboards but there has been some improvements compared to the extremely limited BIOS on the X100, where we could only change the date, time, boot sequence and Ultra DMA modes. For the X200, the DRAM timings could be adjusted manually, along with the buffer size for the onboard graphics, which takes from system memory. Of course there are no options for overclocking, like adjusting the voltage or CPU frequency.

There are few comparable systems for the Shuttle X200, which, going by its hardware configuration, falls into the performance category of notebooks rather than desktop PCs. Given the scarcity of suitable notebook comparisons due to the unique configuration of the X200, we decided that the previous version, the XPC X100 would make an interesting comparison, especially since Shuttle has 'downgraded' the graphics in the X200. For the CPU duel, the advantage goes to the Shuttle X200 since it has a Core 2 Duo installed along with faster DDR2 memory but the specifications on the newer X200 is actually comparable with some of the notebooks we are seeing these days. We also included a desktop reference system installed with the same T7600 processor found on the X200. This system was further configured with 1GB of DDR2-667 memory (compared to the 2GB on the X200) but uses a similar Seagate 7200.7 80GB SATA hard drive. Since it was equipped with a discrete graphics card, we shall not compare its graphics performance against the weaker integrated graphics of the X200.

Below are the benchmarks that we tested for the two systems:

  • BAPco SYSmark04
  • Futuremark PCMark05
  • Futuremark 3DMark 2005 Pro (ver .130)
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