Gigabyte BRIX GB-XM11-3337 System Review

AIDA64

AIDA64 Extreme Edition is a streamlined Windows diagnostic and benchmarking software for home users. AIDA64 Extreme Edition provides a wide range of features to assist in overclocking, hardware error diagnosis, stress testing, and sensor monitoring. It has unique capabilities to assess the performance of the processor, system memory, and disk drives. AIDA64 is compatible with all current 32-bit and 64-bit Microsoft Windows operating systems, including Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2.

We ran the AIDA 64 disk benchmark on our Patriot Supersonic Magnum 256GB USB 3.0 drive which is fully capable of maxing out the USB 3.0 interface. As you can see, unlike Intel’s Celeron NUC which is limited by USB 2.0, Gigabyte’s BRIX is able to capitalise on the USB 3.0 interface and post a blazing fast 231MB/s average random read with just 7% average CPU usage giving you plenty of CPU power left to carry on doing other tasks.