ZOTAC ZBOX Bluray AD03 (ZBOX-AD03BR-PLUS-U) Review

To test the Fusion platform today, we are using a wide selection of real world and synthetic tests, clearly labelled. If you are only interested in video quality and hardware performance we advise you to shift forward in the review to the real world and image quality sections.

We also felt it would be interesting to compare some of our findings against the Intel Atom platform, in the shape of the 1.8GHz D525 and 1.6ghz D510 processors. We have also included results from a previous generation AMD Turion 64 X2 L510 clocked at 1.6ghz.

The ZOTAC ZBOX isn't supplied with any operating system and we are using Windows 7 64 bit for our testing today. We also tried Ubuntu after our main testing and we were able to get it running well (images above).

The Windows Performance Index shows the system is limited by the processor, with a final score of 3.8 points.

Supplemental Hardware:
Solid State: Kingston Hyper Max 3.0 x 2
Monitors: Sharp 50 inch 1080p Aquos LCD TV, LaCie 730 (IQ testing) and Dell U2410

Comparison processors:
Atom D525 @ 1.8ghz
Atom D510 @ 1.6ghz
Turion X64 X2 L510 @ 1.6ghz
AMD E-350 @ 1.88ghz (OC on Asus E35M1-I Deluxe Motherboard)

Software:
Windows 7 64 Bit
Aida 64
SiSoft Sandra
Cinebench R11.5 64 bit
Cyberlink Media Espresso
Cyberlink PowerDVD Ultra V10
3Dmark Vantage
HQV Benchmark V 2.0
Left4Dead
Resident Evil 5

Technical Monitoring and Test Equipment:
Keithley Integra unit
Thermal Diodes
Raytek Laser Temp Gun 3i LSRC/MT4 Mini Temp
Extech digital sound level meter & SkyTronic DSL 2 Digital Sound Level Meter
Kill A Watt Meter

All results are gained from multiple test runs to ensure any abnormalities are removed before publication.

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