System setup and notes
Here's a quick rundown of the test system should you wish to compare benchmark results with your own.MV Ixius 3.6 desktop-replacement laptop. Specifications here
HEXUS LGA775 test system comprising of:
Intel Pentium 4 560 LGA775 processor
DFI LANPARTY 925X-T2 i925X motherboard
1GB x (2x512MB) Corsair XMS2 4300 DDR2, run at 3-3-3-10 latencies
NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GT 256MB, PCI Express, 350/1000
Western Digital 160GB (WD1600) 8MB cache hard drive
Intel reference cooler
Pioneer 105 DVD-RW
Dell P991 19" monitor
Software
Windows XP Professional SP2
DirectX 9.0c runtime
Intel 6.0.1.1006 chipset drivers
Intel Application Accelerator for ICH6
Benchmarks
Pifast v4.1 to 10m places
Lame v3.92 MP3 encoding with Razor-Lame 1.15 front-end using U2's Pop album (611MB)
HEXUS XviD encoding test
KribiBench 1.1
ScienceMark 2.0
Realstorm Raytracing benchmark 2004
Simplisoft HD Tach 3
Notes
I'll be looking at MV Ixius 36's non-gaming performance against a similar desktop PC. It, too, uses a 3.6GHz Prescott Pentium 4 but was run with 1GByte (2x512MB, dual-channel) DDR2 memory with tighter latencies. Further, the use of a decent Alderwood (i925X) motherboard should give it the performance edge. Some may think it unfair of me to compare a laptop with a fully-tuned PC, but benchmark results from the Ixius will show just how close DTRs have become to their desktop counterparts.
Gaming benchmarks will be left until I've discussed NVIDIA's GeForce 6800 Go in more detail. The MV Ixius was run from mains power and was a paradigm of stability throughout testing.
Hard to argue with that kind of specification in a mobile form.
