System setup and notes
Hardware and Software
Test Platforms
| System | ASUS A6JA laptop | Dell Inspiron XPS Gen 2 | Rock Xtreme Ti 3.8 laptop |
| Processor(s) | Intel Core Duo T2500 | Intel Pentium M 770 | Intel Pentium 4 570J |
| Mainboard | Intel i945PM Napa | Intel i915GM Sonoma | Intel i915P PCI-Express |
| Memory | 2GBytes (2x1024MB) Samsung PC4200 DDR2 SODIMMs | 1GByte (2x512MB) Samsung PC4200 DDR2 SODIMMs | 1GByte (2x512MB) Samsung PC4200 DDR2 SODIMMs | Memory timings | 4-4-4-12 | 4-4-4-12 | 4-4-4-11 | Graphics Cards | ATI Mobility RADEON X1600 256MB | NVIDIA GeForce Go 6800 Ultra | ATI Mobility RADEON X800 XT 256MB |
| Graphics Card driver | ATI 8.183.4-051031a-027919C | NVIDIA ForceWare 71.89 | ATI CATALTST 5.2 |
| Disk drive(s) | Hitachi 100GB 5,400RPM | Seagate 100GB 4,200RPM | 2x 60GB Hitachi 7,200RPM in RAID0 |
| Screen | 15.4-inch WXGA (1280x800) | 17-inch WUXGA (1920x1200) | 17-inch WSXGA (1680x1050) | Operating system | Windows XP Home SP2 | Windows XP Home SP2 | Windows XP Home SP2 | Price | £1500 inc. VAT | £1700 inc. VAT | £1700 inc. VAT |
Benchmark Software
HEXUS.in-house Cryptography BenchmarkHEXUS Pifast Benchmark
ScienceMark 2.0 (7th February 2005)
Realstorm Raytracing 2004
DivX 6.1 encoding benchmark
CINEBENCH 2003 multi-CPU render
HEXUS.in-house MP3 Encoding Benchmark using LAME 3.97a (Intel HT compiler) - 701MB WAV
picCOLOR 32-bit v4.0 (b479)
KribiBench v1.1
Simpli Software's HDTach 3.0.1
DOOM 3 Timedemo 1
3DMark05 b1.2.0
Far Cry - HEXUS custom benchmark (prison demo)
Notes
We've decided to compare the ASUS A6JA, a sub-3kg business-class laptop, against a couple of desktop-replacement models from Dell and Rockdirect, respectively. The comparison, obviously, isn't on a like-for-like basis, but should offer you the chance to see a real-world dual-core Napa notebook's performance aganist a single-core Pentium M 770 and a desktop Pentium 4 570J's. The Yonah-powered ASUS, sporting an Intel Centrino Duo T2500 CPU running at 2GHz, gives away a little clock-speed to the 2.13GHz-clocked Pentium M 770, and it should do well with software that's multi-threaded in nature. There were no problems to report during testing.
The CPU identification is misreported by CPU-Z; it's a dual-core T2500, which translates to a 2GHz basic clock speed, 667MHz FSB, and a total of 2MB of shared cache.
