Alienware M14x Gaming Laptop Review
SiSoft SANDRA and PCMark Vantage
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SANDRA CPU and Multimedia
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SANDRA Memory Bandwidth and Hard Disk Performance
SANDRA shows impressive performance for the Core i7-2630QM quad core CPU in the M14x, as it handily beats out a similarly clocked previous generation Core i7 X940M quad-core as well as the 3.2GHz Turbo Boost speeds of the Core i5-2520M dual-core. Memory bandwidth oscillated around the 18GB/s mark for our 4GB DDR3-1333 configuration, which is pretty solid for dual-channel performance, and the 500GB 7200RPM Samsung hard drive on board the machine scores about in line with competitive drives from Seagate, Western Digital and Hitachi.
Next we ran Futuremark's system performance benchmark, PCMark Vantage. This semi-synthetic benchmark suite simulates a range of real-world scenarios and workloads, stressing various system subsets in the process. Everything you'd want to do with your PC -- watching HD movies, music compression, image editing, gaming, and so forth -- is represented here, and most of the tests are multi-threaded, making this a good indicator of all-around performance.
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