AOpen XC Cube EX915

Next up is PC Magazine's Content Creation 2004.  This is designed along the same lines as Business Winstone but more from a standpoint of design and creativity.  The programs run to generate a final score as shown below are Adobe® Photoshop® 7.0.1, Adobe® Premiere® 6.50, Macromedia® Director MX 9.0, Macromedia® Dreamweaver MX 6.1, Microsoft® Windows Media™ Encoder 9 Version 9.00.00.2980, NewTek's LightWave® 3D 7.5b and Steinberg™ WaveLab™ 4.0f .

Sandra 2004 shows the two system running quite close despite the differences in memory used in each box.  What we are looking for, is the XC-Cube competitive or not with other i915 based cube makers.  I'd say the answer is yes.

Time to get our frag on.  The AOpen XC-Cube EX915 shows us what we all expected to see, onboard frame rates that suck wind.  Each of the benchmarks below was run at 1024x768 resolution in a speed set up.  We have gotten to be quite fond of the Bench Em' All program which is what we used here.  First up, my new favorite game, Far Cry.

The onboard video simply doesn't have what it takes to play games without having the urge to throw things.  Dropping in a PCI-Express VGA card solved this for Far Cry that is a fairly resource intensive game. 
 

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Pg 1 - Introduction
Pg 2 - The EX915's outsides
Pg 3 - The EX915's insides
Pg 4 - BIOS
Pg 5 - Testing ~ Office Productivity
Pg 6 - Testing ~ Office Productivity and Gaming
Pg 7 - Testing ~ Gaming  /  Conclusion