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AOpen Mini PC MP945-VX Ultra Small Formfactor PC Review

Date: Tuesday January 23, 2007
Category: Computer / SFF PCs Author: M. Page
Manufacture: AOpen

AOpen has employed an unorthodox method of building its super small, super compact, super quiet miniPC MP945-VX small formfactor system.



Benchmarks: Office Productivity, SiSoft Sandra, Super Pi

Winstone 2004 Source: Zdnet

Business Winstone 2004 runs real applications through a series of scripted activities and uses the time a PC takes to complete these activities to produce its performance scores.

Content Creation Winstone 2004 is a system-level, application-based benchmark that measures a PC's overall performance when running top, Windows-based, 32-bit, content creation applications in Windows XP.

PCSTATS Benchmark ReportOffice Productivity
Business Winstone 2004 Points Ranking
Shuttle XPC SD11G5 (915GM 133/533) 27.3
AOpen Mini PC MP915-B (915GM 133/533) 23.7
AOpen Mini PC MP945-VX (945GM 166/667) 18.7
Content Creation 2004 Points Ranking
Shuttle XPC SD11G5 (915GM 133/533) 33.1
AOpen Mini PC MP915-B (915GM 133/533) 29.6
AOpen Mini PC MP945-VX (945GM 166/667) 25.9

Performance of the AOpen Mini PC945-VX is quite poor in the Office Productivity tests, and that is a surprise. The benchmark was rerun three times with similar results, it's possible that it's the WindowsXP Media Center Edition that's causing the problems. The other systems were all benchmarked with WindowsXP SP2 running.

SiSoft Sandra 2005 Source: Sandra

Sandra is designed to test the theoretical power of a complete system as well as the individual components. The results are also purely theoretical and may not represent real world performance.

Sisoft Sandra 2005 Benchmark Results
Multimedia Benchmark CPU Benchmark Memory Benchmark
Processors Integer SSE3: Floating-Point SSE3: Dhrystone SSE3: Whetstone SSE3: Integer SSE3: Float SSE3:
Shuttle XPC SD11G5 (915GM 133/533) 16420 18244 7412 3057 3042 3033
AOpen Mini PC MP915-B (915GM 133/533) 16458 18147 7396 3071 2947 2942
AOpen Mini PC MP945-VX (945GM 166/667) 34550 38289 16427 5037 FPU / 6506 SSE2 3424 3408

The AOpen Mini PC MP945-VX is using a dual core mobile processor while the other two systems are using a Pentium M 740, that's why the processor numbers are so much higher. Memory bandwidth is slightly higher than with the other systems, not a surprise, the memory is running faster.

Super Pi Source: SuperPI

SuperPI calculates the number PI to 1 Million digits in this raw number crunching benchmark. The program allows the user to change the number of digits of PI that can be calculated from 16 thousand to 32 million. Our benchmark is set to 1 Million digits and 19 iterations.

PCSTATS Benchmark ReportSuperPi Mod 1.5:
1 Million Digit Test Seconds Ranking
Shuttle XPC SD11G5 (915GM 133/533) 55
AOpen Mini PC MP915-B (915GM 133/533) 57
AOpen Mini PC MP945-VX (945GM 166/667) 34

The AOpen Mini PC MP945-VX does very well in Super Pi! It is able to complete the test 23 seconds faster than the previous Aopen mini PC system! This is in the same territory as high powered Athlon64 processors.

Page 1: AOpen Mini PC MP945-VX Ultra Small Formfactor PC Review
Page 2: First Impressions: Big Potential
Page 3: External Features of the MP945-VX
Page 4: Internal Features of the MP945-VX
Page 5: System board, memory and thermal solution
Page 6: Internal Wireless 802.11b/g and Jacks
Page 7: Complaints and HTPC Applications
Page 8: High Definition Content Playback and BIOS
Page 9: Benchmarks: SYSMark 2004
Page 10: Benchmarks: Office Productivity, SiSoft Sandra, Super Pi
Page 11: Benchmarks: PCMark05, 3DMark05
Page 12: Benchmarks: UT2004, Doom 3
Page 13: One Great Little HTPC Machine?

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