Installation & Testing Procedures
Just like the ZBOX HD-AD02 the ZBOX Nano does not come with an operating system installed. So you will have to choose an operating system to install. We went with Windows 7 and installed it via a flash drive. This normally would have went fine, but we encountered an error saying certain drivers needed to be present. So I had to hook up a USB DVD-ROM drive and use the supplied drivers so the Windows installation could finish. When you power the system on a green circle lights up on the top of the unit, which looks really cool.
Once everything is installed I went ahead and opened CPU-Z up to see what all was running under the hood.
For comparison we will be comparing the ZBOX Nano to the Zotac ZBOX HD-AD02, and the Sapphire Edge HD2. We will be running the ZBOX Nano through a battery of different benchmarks and tests. I have organized them in to different categories.
General System Testing
Windows Experience Index
Boxee (download)
Windows Media Center
HD Movie Playback
Intensive Testing
PCMark 7 (download)
PC Mark Vantage (download)
Geekbench (download)
AIDA 64 (download)
– Cache & Memory Benchmark
SiSoftware Sandra (download)
– Processor Arithmetic
– Processor Multimedia
– Sandra Physical Disks
Video Testing
3DMark Vantage (download)
Counter-Strike: Source (Buy)
