7. Synthetic Benchmarks

SiSoft Sandra 2002 Benchmarks: CPU, Multimedia And Memory

We conducted the individual benchmark tests in SiSoft Sandra 2003 for various power schemes (Always On/ Portable Laptop/ Presentation) and for the two power sources: mains (AC) and battery (DC).

Theoretically, the CPUs for both machines should rack up identical scores. After all, the processor, chipset and RAM are equally fast, according to the specifications. Strangely, though, the individual readings from the Asus M2N fluctuated wildly. We repeated each reading at least three times and listed the average of the three measurements. This is the reason why the Pentium M in the Asus M2N gave such a poor performance under the "Always On" and "Presentation" power schemes.

We were unable to find out why this kept happening, even after talking to Asus and Intel.