Small Form Factor Pentium 4 PC Roundup - March 2003

Media Encoding Performance

MPEG-4 Video Encoding Performance MPEG-2 to DiVX Conversion using XMpeg 4.5 & DiVX 5.0.2 (Frames per Second - Higher is Better) Soltek Qbic EQ2000 Shuttle SB51G Jetway MiniQ 450 Shuttle SB52G2 73.7 73.4 68.4 60.8 | 0 | 15 | 29 | 44 | 59 | 74 | 88

With our DiVX encoding test we're able to bring the SB52G2 back to the charts as we're not dealing with any 3D performance tests. Although video conversion is a bit out of the SB52G2's job description, it's still worth including to show the benefits that DDR333 and a non-shared memory video architecture will give you.

It's worth noting that the SiS 651 based MiniQ can't keep up with the two 845GE based systems here, which makes us wonder exactly what gave it such a big performance advantage in a couple of our gaming tests.