Alienware Aurora m9700 17-inch Notebook

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Max Slowik
Kurtis
Alienware
Jul. 25, 2007

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Test Setup

We use one synthetic test, 3DMark06, and a series of games to test video cards. Note that we only test 3DMark06 for kicks, and the resulting scores don’t factor into our review whatsoever. We try to use our own timedemos whenever possible, but will use the in-game timedemo or record a few minutes of gameplay using FRAPS if that's not an option. The games are Half-Life 2: Episode One, F.E.A.R., Company of Heroes, Prey, and Need For Speed: Most Wanted. All benchmarking results are the average of at least three runs of each game at each different setting.

We bench using Windows XP Service Pack 2, and the latest video card drivers (NVIDIA 158.22). The driver settings were left at default, and transparency-sampling anti-aliasing was left off.

Test Computers:

Alienware Aurora m9700
AMD Turion 64 ML44 2.4GHz, 1MB cache processor
2x 1024MB DDR2 800MHz RAM
2x GeForce 7900GS 512MB video cards
17" WUXGA 1920x1200 display (Conspiracy Blue, of course)
2x 150GB 7200RPM SATA hard drives, in a striped RAID (0)
One 8x DVD-DL DVD+/-RW, 24x CD-RW optical drive

Comparison Desktop
AMD Athlon 64 3700+ 2.4GHz, 1MB cache processor
1x 1024MB DDR 400MHz RAM
1x Foxconn 7950GT OC 512MB video card
AOpen XCube 761 motherboard
Gateway FPD2485W 24" 1920x1200 widescreen LCD display

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Page 1: Introduction
Page 2: First Looks
Page 3: Test Setup
Page 4: Testing - HL2 Episode 1
Page 5: Testing - F.E.A.R.
Page 6: Testing - Company of Heroes
Page 7: Testing - Prey
Page 8: Testing - Need for Speed Most Wanted
Page 9: Testing - 3DMark 06
Page 10: Performance Summary
Page 11: Performance Summary, Continued...
Page 12: Conclusion

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2 User Comments

1 - Posted by mjsmom on July 27, 2007 - 10:07 pm

My non-tech comments. . .just browsing your articles today. . .would love to have a laptop, any laptop. . .keep writing. . .I'm loving it. gm

2 - Posted by Kurtis on July 28, 2007 - 2:09 am

Thanks for the kind words, mjsmom. :)

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