Source: Tom's Guide US | Keywords: combining, work, with, play | Themes: Business Notebooks
- 1. Can Business Notebooks Also Please The Gamer Crowd?
- 2. The Test System In Numbers
- 3. ....And In Pictures
- 4. And In Pictures, Continued
- 5. And In Pictures, Continued
- 6. The Good And The Bad: The 15" SXGA+ TFT Display
- 7. Game Performance
- 8. DirectX8: UT 2003
6. The Good And The Bad: The 15" SXGA+ TFT Display
With a maximum of less than 150 cd/m², the display is certainly not the brightest. In addition, the black-and-white contrast with maximum brightness was below 100:1, due to the fact that the black level was 1.63 cd/m². Although we suspect a defective display in our test system, we recommend potential customers to take a close look at the display.
The control of the brightness of the TFT monitor allows great fine-tuning. The SXGA+ resolution of the 15.1" display does its duty when it comes to working with spreadsheets while the DVD player is running at the same time. But with a native resolution of 1400x1050 pixels and the ghosting effects that occurred due to the average response time of the liquid crystals, the display is not that suitable for 3D games. As far as our experience goes, though, all TFT displays that are momentarily on the market "suffer" from ghosting effects while displaying fast game scenes.
Benchmarks
| Driver & Software | |
|---|---|
| Graphics Driver | MOBILITY RADEON 9600 6.14.0010.6378 (Yakumo Q8M) 6.14.0010.6396
(Asus M6800N) GeForce FX Go5650 6.14.0010.4482 (Dell Inspiton 8600) MOBILITY RADEON 9700 6.14.10.6396 (Blackbox M11) |
| DirectX | Version: 9.0b (4.09.0000.0902) |
| OS | Windows XP Pro, Build 2600 SP1 (2600.xpsp2.030422-1633) |
| Benchmarks & Settings | |
| Sysmark 2002 | Version 1.0 |
| MobileMark2002 | Version 1.0 |
| Quake III Team Arena | THG3.dem, command line = +set cd_nocd 1 +set s_initsound 0Graphics detail = High Quality |
| Halo Ver. 1.0.2.581 /Combat Evolved | Timedemo Pixelshader 2.0 Settings |
| UT2003 Ver.2225 | Antalus Flyby Demo/Inferno Demo |
| Aquamark 3 | Timedemo |
| Splintercell EMEA | 1_1_1 Tibilis Demo |
Of course, in this review we also want to find out how great the performance difference is between this notebook and a comparably equipped desktop system. As a basis for this test, we use a desktop that is equipped with different graphic cards.
| System | |
|---|---|
| Motherboard | ASUS P4P800 Deluxe, Intel i865PE chipset |
| CPU | Intel Pentium 2.4 GHz (FSB800) |
| RAM | 4x 256 MB Corsair CMX256A-3200LL
Moderate Timings: CL3 / 8-3-3 |
| Graphics card 1 | Ati Radeon 9600XT(500MHz/300MHZ DDR) |
| Graphics card 2 | Ati Radeon 9600(325MHz/200MHZ DDR) |
| Graphics card 3 | Geforce FX 5700 Ultra (475MHz/ 450MHz DDR) |
| Drivers & Settings | |
| Desktop | "ATI Catalyst 4.1 NVIDIA Detonator FX v53.03" |
| Chipset driver | Intel Ver. 5.00.1012 |
| DirectX-Version | 9.0b |
| OS | Windows XP Professional SP1 |
Furthermore, we take the readings of a few notebooks we have reviewed in the past into account. You will find the equipment that THG used in the section above titled:" The Test System In Numbers..."
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