Setup and notes
Here's a quick rundown of the test system should you wish to compare benchmark results with your own.Voodoo PC Envy m:855 laptop with AMD Athlon 64 Model 3200+ CPU and ATI Mobility Radeon 9600. Full specs. on the previous page.
Dell Inspiron 5150 with:
3.06GHz Pentium 4 Mobile CPU
15" UXGA (1600x1200) display
NVIDIA GeForce FX Go5200 64MB graphics adapter
60GB 4200RPM Hard drive
4x DVD+R ReWriter
Dell 802.11g Wireless
512MB PC2700 Infineon memory
Windows XP Professional w/SP1
Weight - 3.8kg
AMD Athlon 64 Model 3200+ desktop PC with:
ATI Radeon 9600XT graphics adapter
160GB Western Digital 8MB cache PATA drive
4x Pioneer 106 DVD-RW
512MB Corair XMS3500C2 run at 2-6-2-2
EPoX 8HDA3+ VIA K8T880 S754 motherboard (02/12/03 BIOS)
Dell P991 19" monitor
Windows XP Professional w/SP1
Software
VIA Hyperion 4.51 drivers
ATI CATALYST 4.1 drivers and control panel (for both Voodoo PC laptop and desktop comparison machine)
NVIDIA
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
Kribi Bench 1.19
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
I'll be comparing the performance of the Voodoo laptop against my personal laptop and a somewhat equivalent desktop machine. Non-3D benchmarks will be run with the Envy m:855 in mains-powered mode. Gaming benchmarks will be run in both battery and mains-powered mode. The premise is to see what kind of performance one gets with the processor running at the full 2GHz and at 800MHz. Gaming benchmarks will use the same format as graphics card benchmarks, that is, a bias towards quality rather than speed.
The Dell laptop has a lesser spec., especially with respect to graphical benchmarks. This is not a like-for-like comparison. We're attempting to see just what kind of performance improvement the Mobility Radeon 9600 gives over an established NVIDIA mobile adapter.
Any attempt to overclock or tinker with the BIOS meet with complete failure. As always, benchmarks were conducted three times, and the highest and lowest results were discarded