Content Creation Performance

Currently, Intel Pentium 4 3.2C and 3.0C take the lead when it comes to multimedia style type performance with AMD trailing behind. We were very surprised to see the Voodoo Envy M:855’s Athlon 64 DTR 3200+ slightly ahead of the Athlon 64 3200+, and we attribute this to the use of different chipsets as well as margin of standard deviation between test scenarios.

General Usage Performance AquaMark3 Performance – No AA/AF
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  • Shalmanese - Wednesday, November 5, 2003 - link

    Well, seeing as this is the first 9600 based production notebook they have in the lab in the moment, its kinda hard to bench it against any others. WHEN they review the Sager, I'm sure they will have the Voodoo benchie in there.
  • ssamurai26 - Wednesday, November 5, 2003 - link

    Ok, who makes the closest notebook to the Voodoo then?
  • Locutus4657 - Wednesday, November 5, 2003 - link

    No offence.... But why didn't you compare the preformance of this notebook v. several other notebooks when it came to game preformance... I'm more than a little dissapointed to see yet another ATI/nVidia comparison in what should be a comparison of finished notebook products.
  • KristopherKubicki - Wednesday, November 5, 2003 - link

    #7: AnandTech doesnt get paid to do reviews. What a troll. Did you even notice Andrew wrote this review and not Anand? I'm writing this on a Sager by the way.

    Kristopher
  • petz - Wednesday, November 5, 2003 - link

    "Up to par" with DELL's best? Is that what you call 50 to 100% higiher FPS on every benchmark?
  • Madcat207 - Wednesday, November 5, 2003 - link

    In NO way is AW the closest.

    Unless your taking about the deepest pockets......
  • ssamurai26 - Wednesday, November 5, 2003 - link

    Yes, would have been nice to see some competition in there. It was interesting none the less, but it even says in the review that the closest competitor is Alienware. And Alienware has both fx5600go and M10 in their machines.
  • Madcat207 - Wednesday, November 5, 2003 - link

    Andrew, that is fine, but it still doesnt explain why there was no comparable model tested. Was Anand not paid enough to test a Sager along with it?
  • Boonesmi - Tuesday, November 4, 2003 - link

    unlike some of the folks above, i liked the review... and im looking forward to part 2 (part 2 will have the info im more interested in)
  • Andrew Ku - Tuesday, November 4, 2003 - link

    There is a reason that this can still be called a 9600 Pro. First of all, the revelation of the requirements for the Pro name only came to light in the last 48 hours. Sager themselves wouldn't have known about this until recently.

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