iBuyPower Gamer Paladin F970 System

Name: iBuyPower Gamer Paladin F970 System - Page 5
Brand: iBuyPower

by Jennifer Johnson — Friday, April 10, 2009, 11:40 AM EDT

For our next round of benchmarks, we ran the complete Futuremark PCMark Vantage test suite. This component of our testing provides a solid assessment of a system's overall performance.

"The PCMark Suite is a collection of various single- and multi-threaded CPU, Graphics, and HDD test sets with the focus on Windows Vista application tests. Tests have been selected to represent a subset of the individual Windows Vista Consumer scenarios. The PCMark Suite includes CPU, Graphics, Hard Disk Drive (HDD), and a subset of Consumer Suite tests."

Futuremark PCMark Vantage

Simulated Application Performance

The Gamer Paladin F970 put up best of class numbers and then some for the Productivity and Gaming tests, but didn’t fare quite as well in the other PCMark Vantage tests. It’s likely the Music test suite and a few other tests could have been affected by driver variances and disk performance.

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Jennifer Johnson

Jennifer grew up around technology. From an early age, she was curious about all things related to computers. As a child, Jennifer remembers spending nights with her dad programming in BASIC and taking apart hard drives to see what was inside. In high school, she wrote her senior term paper on her experiences with building custom computers.

Jennifer graduated from the Jeffrey S. Raikes School of Computer Science and Management at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln. After college, she began writing full-time for various PC and technology magazines. Later, she transitioned to the Web. In these roles, Jennifer has covered a variety of topics including laptops, desktops, smartphones, cameras, tablets, and various consumer electronics devices. When she's not playing with or writing about the latest gadget, Jennifer loves to spend time with her family, capture memories with her camera, and scrapbook.

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