MSI Wind Nettop 120 XP PC Review

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It doesn't seem fair to compare the Nettop with up to date desktop machines, so I won't. But while not having another Nettop and comparing this only to its mobile Wind brother wasn't enough it was decided to use one old, yet still potent machine for comparison. And here are the characteristics of the three machines:

Computer 1

MSI Wind U100 Notebook

Computer 2

Wind Nettop 120 XP

Computer 3

• CPU: Intel P4 3.2GHz HT
• Motherboard: AsRock P4i65PE (North bridge - Intel® 865PE, South Bridge - Intel® ICH5)
• Video card: nVidia 7600GS (256MB)
• Memory: 1 GB DDR 400
• Hard drive: 120GB
• OS: Windows XP Pro SP 2

Maxon Cinebench R10

We begin with Maxon Cinebench. It's based on the animation software Cinema 4D, used in a number of movies such as Spider-Man, Star Wars and The Chronicles of Narnia. It has a component that tests the processor performance and has also good multi-threading support.

Paint.NET x32 3.05

PDNBench is a benchmark based on the popular 64 bit free software for picture editing Pain.NET. PDNBench tests the and displays the sum of time required for performing a variety of different operations, commonly used when editing pictures - scaling, zooming, decreasing, cutting, compressing and so on.

Lame

As the name suggests, this is the famously known software for audio encoding in LAME, with multi-threading support. We used the benchmark with the supplied 20MB .WAV fail, compressed in .MP3 of course.

WinRAR 3.80

Is there anything we can say about WinRAR, that you don't already know... The integrated benchmark has multi-threading support and is quite indicative. We measured the time for compressing 100MB source.

SuperPI (8M)

The famous SuperPI... We used the version from our colleagues from XtremeSystems, that supports multi-threading.

As expected both MSI creations have similar performance. The superiority of the P4 veteran is only maintained by its higher frequency.