Shuttle SN27P2

Memory Performance:

Sisoft Unbuffered Memory scores are pretty good, still faster than the reference Intel board and the ATI RD580 based ECS, however, lagging somewhat behind the other nForce 570/590 SLI boards since we could only run it at 3-4-4-10-1T at 2.0V which is all that the BIOS would allow, rather than the usual 3-3-3-9-1T at 2.3V. The latency reflects the laxer timings, however, it's still virtually almost as fast as the other boards and still a nose faster than the RD580 ECS.

Disk Performance:

The SATA read tests were conducted with a 74GB Western Digital Raptor using HD Tach 3.0.1.0's 8MB zone test. The USB 2.0 tests were done using an ATA133 160GB Maxtor DiamondMax 10 hard drive (model number: 6L160PO) using the same 8MB zone test enclosed in an Icy Box USB 2.0 hard drive caddy. We recorded the average read speeds in all cases.



USB performance is pretty good, with an average CPU usage but fractionally slower read speeds than the fastest boards is nothing to sniff at.