Gateway P-6831FX Gaming Notebook
Test Setup & 3DMark06 CPU
The Gateway P-6831FX was left "as delivered" for the duration of benchmarking. This represents the configuration that the consumer would receive the system in. Nothing was installed or altered, with the exception of the necessary benchmarking software. We decided to compare the P-6831FX to the Dell XPS M1730, ASUS C90S, Toshiba Satellite X205-SLi4 and Toshiba Satellite A305 for points of reference.
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| Gateway P-6831FX Intel Core 2 Duo T5450 (1.67GHz) 3GB DDR2-667 512MB NVIDIA GeForce 8800M GTS On-Board Ethernet On-Board Audio 250GB Hard Drive 5,400 RPM SATA Windows Vista Home Premium 17" WSXGA+ Display (native 1680x1050) |
Dell XPS M1730 Intel Core 2 Extreme X7900 (2.8GHz) 2x1GB DDR2-667 Dual 256MB NVIDIA GeForce 8700M GT On-Board Ethernet On-Board Audio 2x200GB in RAID0 7,200 RPM SATA Windows Vista Home Premium 17" WUXGA Display (native 1920x1200) |
Toshiba Satellite X205-SLi4 Intel Core 2 Duo T8100 (2.1GHz) 3GB DDR2-667 Dual 256MB NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT On-Board Ethernet On-Board Audio 2x160GB Hard Drives (no RAID) 7,200 RPM SATA Windows Vista Ultimate 17" WSXGA+ Display (native 1680x1050) |
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| ASUS C90S Intel Core 2 Duo E6700 (2.66GHz) 2x1GB DDR2-667 512MB NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT On-Board Ethernet 160GB Hard Drive 15.4" WSXGA+ Display (native 1680x1050) |
Toshiba Satellite A305 Intel Core 2 Duo T8100 (2.1GHz) 3GB DDR2-667 512MB NVIDIA Mobility Radeon HD 3650 On-Board Ethernet On-Board Audio 2x200GB Hard Drives (no RAID) 5,400 RPM/4,200 RPM SATA Windows Vista Home Premium 15.4" WXGA Display (native 1280x800) |
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To start out our testing, we began with a focus on CPU performance, utilizing FutureMark 3DMark06's CPU performance module. 3DMark06's test is a multi-threaded "gaming related" DirectX metric that's useful for comparing relative performance between similarly equipped systems. This test consists of different 3D scenes that are generated with software and hardware GPU renderers, which is also dependant on the host CPU's performance. In its CPU tests, the calculations normally reserved for your 3D accelerator are instead sent to the central processor. GPU rendering tests employ a mix of SM2.0, SM3.0 and HDR techniques and effects.
The Gateway P-6831FX isn't off to a particularly good start, coming in last in our first benchmark. This isn't surprising however, since the P-6831FX's Core 2 Duo T5450 is the slowest processor out of all of our comparison notebooks. At only 1.67GHz, with 2mb of L2 cache, the T5450 is one of the slowest mobile Core 2 Duo processors available.
The Gateway P-6831FX isn't off to a particularly good start, coming in last in our first benchmark. This isn't surprising however, since the P-6831FX's Core 2 Duo T5450 is the slowest processor out of all of our comparison notebooks. At only 1.67GHz, with 2mb of L2 cache, the T5450 is one of the slowest mobile Core 2 Duo processors available.
