11. Performance Tests

For the purposes of this article, I re-built the MEGA 180 and ran the Intel Digital Home Capabilities Assessment Tool (DHCAT) on it. Due to compatibility problems with the TV tuner in the ATI All in Wonder series, I wasn't able to run all of the tests again, but the results should provide a reasonable comparison with the system in Part I, since both of them used All in Wonder cards.

DHCAT platform capabilities indicator and score

DHCAT platform capabilities matrix

DHCAT platform capabilities matrix legend.
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A PDF of the entire DHCAT report is available here.

I also ran PCMark on the MEGA 180 to give a general idea of the PC's performance.

PC Mark score

Again to put this score into perspective the highest PC Mark score can be found here.