Setup and systems' notes
Here's a quick rundown of the test system should you wish to compare benchmark results with your own.SavRow Razor 1.7 laptop, specs. on previous page.
Rock Xtreme XTR-3.2 laptop. Full specs. here
Voodoo PC Envy m:855 laptop. Full specs.
here.
AMD Athlon 64 Model 3200+ desktop PC with:
ATI Radeon 9600 XT graphics adapter
160GB Western Digital 8MB cache PATA drive
4x Pioneer 106 DVD-RW
512MB Corair XMS3500C2 run at 2.5-2-2-6
EPoX 8HDA3+ VIA K8T880 S754 motherboard (12/12/03 BIOS)
Dell P991 19" monitor
Windows XP Professional w/SP1
Software
Windows XP Home w/SP1 (for desktop system)
VIA Hyperion 4.51 drivers
ATI CATALYST 4.1 drivers and control panel (modded to 4.1s for all three laptops)
Pifast v41 to 10m places
LAME v3.92 MP3 encoding with Razor-Lame 1.15 front-end using U2's Pop album
(607MB)
Gordian Knot - XviD encoding test using first vob of Sleepy Hollow. 1433kbit/s bitrate
KribiBench 1.1
ScienceMark 2.0
Realstorm Raytracing benchmark 320x180x32
SimpliSoftware HDTach 2.70
3DMark 2001SE v330
UT2003 Retail (Build 2225) - 2 custom benchmarks
AquaMark3
3DMark03 b340
Call of Duty HEXUS Custom test
Quake 3 v1.30 HQ
Notes
There were no operational problems to report during a weekend of testing. We'll be comparing the SavRow Razor 1.7's performance against a couple of desktop-replacement heavyweights from Voodoo PC and Rock, respectively. We reckon it' fair to do so considering the Razor's impressive base specification, especially the MR 9700 graphics adapter which runs at 446MHz core and 500MHz DDR memory.
The 9700 nomenclature isn't quite accurate. If you want to appreciate the subtleties of ATI's M11 GPU, Ryszard took a succint look at it here.
We'll also be looking at gaming benchmarks with the Razor 1.7 run in mains and battery mode. We want to see just what kind of performance hit a slower CPU imposes. POWERPLAY, however, was disabled so that benchmarks can be compared on a like-for-like basis with the other two laptops. We also installed modified Catalyst 4.1 drivers via DriverHeaven's excellent Mobile Modder tool.
That's the Razor in full-blown mains mode. A P M 1.7GHz is the fastest Banias-based processor available. We hanker for the 2.0GHz 133MHz FSB Dothan though.
The multiplier is knocked down to 6x in maximum battery mode.
