System setup and notes
Hardware and Software
Test Platforms
| System | Rockdirect Pegasus 650 laptop | Dell Inspiron XPS Gen 2 laptop | Rock Xtreme Ti 3.8 laptop | AMD Athlon 64 desktop system |
| Processor(s) | Intel Pentium M 770 | Intel Pentium M 770 | Intel Pentium 4 570 | AMD Athlon 64 4000+ |
| Mainboard | Intel i915GM Sonoma | Intel i915PM Sonoma | Intel i915P PCI-Express | ABIT AX8 VIA K8T890 PCI-Express |
| Memory | 1GByte (2x512MB) Samsung PC4200 DDR2 SODIMMs | 1GByte (2x512MB) Samsung PC4200 DDR2 SODIMMs | 1GByte (2x512MB) Samsung PC4200 DDR2 SODIMMs | 1GByte (2x512MB) Corsair XMS3200XL | Memory timings | 4-4-4-12 | 4-4-4-11 | 4-4-4-11 | 2-2-2-5 1T |
| Graphics Cards | ATI Mobility RADEON X700 128MB & Integrated Intel | NVIDIA GeForce 6800 Go Ultra 256MB | ATI Mobility RADEON X800 XT 256MB | ATI Radeon X700 Pro 256MB (desktop) | Disk drive(s) | Seagate 100GB 4,200RPM | Fujitsu 100GB 4,200RPM | 2x 60GB Hitachi 7,200RPM in RAID0 | 160GB Western Digital 160JB | Screen | 15.4-inch WSXGA (1680x1050) | 17-inch WUXGA (1920x1200) | 17-inch WSXGA (1680x1050) | 20-inch Dell 2001FP (1600x1200) | Operating system | Windows XP Home SP2 | Windows XP Home SP2 | Windows XP Home SP2 | Windows XP Professional SP2 | Price | £1410 inc. VAT | £1999 inc. VAT | £2231 inc. VAT | £1200 inc. VAT |
Benchmark Software
HEXUS.in-house Cryptography Benchmark
HEXUS Pifast Benchmark
ScienceMark 2.0 (7th February 2005)
Realstorm 2004
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
KribiBench v1.1
Simpli Software's HDTach 3.01
DOOM 3 Timedemo 1
3DMark05 b1.2.0
Far Cry - HEXUS custom benchmark (prison demo)
Notes
No problems to report during testing. Let's get on to the benchmarks.
