Memory Performance:
Unbuffered memory is understandably slower than the DFI Infinity which was run at 800MHz, but it's not far behind. In fact, it's much further from the Asus at 533MHz than it is from the DFI at 800MHz. Without knowing you'd guess it would be somewhere in between at 667MHz, 133MHz from both. The latency also shows why it's so good: being able to do some extremely tight timings of 3-3-3-9, stably, aids it no end.
Disk Performance:
The USB 2.0 tests were done using an ATA133 160GB Maxtor DiamondMax 10 hard drive (model number: 6L160PO) using HDTach's 8MB zone test enclosed in an Icy Box USB 2.0 hard drive caddy. We recorded the average read speeds in all cases.
USB 2.0 speeds are not only faster than both the DFI and Asus, but it also uses less CPU when it does it. This is a testament to Shuttles engineers, because you'd expect the same chipset to perform the same between the DFI and Shuttle boards.
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