Test Setup:

As always, we did our best to deliver a clean set of benchmarks, with each test repeated three times and an average of those results is what we’re reporting here. In the rare case where performance was inconsistent, we continued repeating the test until we got three results that were consistent.

Test Setup:

• Gigabyte GA-GC230D with Intel Atom 230 CPU
  
• VIA EPIA EX with 1.5GHz VIA C7 CPU
  
• 1GB DDR2 533MHz at 3-3-3-9-2T timings (SPD)
  
• Corsair VX550W PSU
  
• Seagate 7200.10 200GB SATA hard drive
  
• Windows XP with SP2 32-bit

Lavalys Everest Memory Performance

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Even though both the Gigabyte Atom motherboard and VIA EPIA use a single channel DDR2 533MHz memory with optimised memory timings, the memory performance of the Intel Atom is far superior. It's hardly "fantastic" on the grand scale of things as it is only DDR2 at 533MHz after all - how very 2005. Everest does claim that the latency of the Atom board is higher than the VIA EPIA C7's by a good 20ns though.

SiSoftware Sandra Lite XII.2008.SP2c (14.24)

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Sisoft Sandra synthetic results show a somewhat tamer difference, but they still are in favour of the Gigabyte GA-GC230D Atom motherboard and this time the latency is also in its favour too.