Jumat, 28 Januari 2011

Gaming Laptop part2

Alien Ware M17x
Alienware M17x
Alienware is company that founded at 1996, Alienware known as a gaming desktop manufacturer. then expand their product to to gaming laptop and Alienware M17x is a laptop to fill the need game on mobility stuff. This product Gaming performance very satisfying and I tend to say it one of the best laptop. With dual Ati Graphics card setting on real Cross fire that make this laptop be able to run most recent game in medium-high setting without any problem. 17” led display provide amazing picture for gaming, it’s looks so realistic and it’s provide by Full HD technology, with best color and brightness but still comfort to use even you use it in hours.

For office work of course it’s easy to handle by power full Intel core I7 Processor and 4096mb main memory. For storage media 500 gb hard drive with 7200 rpm ready to server you, it’s the fastest laptop hard drive recently.  Other thing that excellent for this laprop is anodized aluminum case in red-black-silver color. Total weight this laptop is 5.7kg but for powerful gaming laptop 5.7kg is nothing if we compare it with it’s performance.

Keyboard, touchpad and airduck lighted with some led, (it’s look nice when see it in dark room). And this light are be able to customize with any color you like or even disable it. Big responsive touch keyboard make game control easier, with colored led make it is to typing in less light room. 802.11 wifi and gigabit Ethernet is ready for fast online game connection. 2 device that seem not to use full for me is integrated camera and microphone. (Remember it’s gaming laptop not chating laptop :D)
For overall, performance, weight, feature, design, price, style this laptop is worth to buy. And it’s seem no competitor in this class, because I don’t know is there any other product using dual GPU in crossfire mode like this laptop. Maybe they will coming soon.

My score:
Performance : 95
Design : 90
Price : 82
Feature : 85





MSI Gaming GX660-060us
MSI GX660-060us
MSI released MSI Gaming GX660-060us , new generation laptop that powered by intel quad core 2nd generation I7 and Ati Radeon HD 5870 1 GB DDR5 that totally support DirectX 11. this laptop have 4 memory slot with 16 gb maximum memory, dual SSD for maximized performance that usually desktop have. Turbo Boost 2.0 technology for optimizing performance in all core. Quick Sync Video adapted for work up multimedia work including conversion, rendering, synchronization and compilation.

MSI GX 660 featuring Ati Radeon HD 5870 1 GB DDR5 Vram. This GPU unit support direcX11 for higher resolution, you be able see building details from the distance, face details, or character that hiding or far away from you (in the game of course).

Dual Solid State Drive far faster read and write, technically it’s 3 time from  regular Hard Drive. Beside that RAID 0 option not only rising space but also make read write going faster around 70%.

This Laptop adapted MSI Turbo Drive Engine (TDE), with it you need 1 soft touch in all hotkey turbo that lighted in the top of keyboard. So, when this laptop on heavy load such as graphical work or render this technology prevent this machine to going HANG. Beside TDE instant overclocking MSI GX660 also use powerful Cooler Boost Technology just like TDE it’s also need soft touch in the top of keyboard, and it will make core cooler process more effective so your laptop keep in optimum and save temperature.

THX TruStudio Pro make every sound from this laptop clear sound  and  minimize any noise from internal speaker which be able to handle of all sound frequency.  MSI cinema pro soft touch make you be able to enter cinema mode for high resolution movies with excellent color  and brightness. So this machine not only for gaming but also for any digital and multimedia processing.

MSI i-Chargher is new technology that supply more power so battery recharge 3 times faster than normal speed. USB 3.0 for fast connectivity to any device with 4.8GBPS or 10 times faster than USB 2.0 technology. So transfer data via USB 3.0 port and device no longer annoying. Eco Engine technology make you have 5 mode power option/power management Video game mode, movies mode, presentation mode, Word processing mode and turbo battery mode.

This machine performance almost as good as asus G73JW gaming series, on multi tasking test this machine be able to render movie fast and stable. For game test this laptop provide good performance for medium setting on heavy 3D game. At overall this is good gaming and multimedia laptop, but if you laptop is just for word processing don’t spent your money for this laptop, it’s to expensive for word processing laptop :D

My score:
Performance : 90
Design : 90
Price : 87
Feature : 83
  


Acer AS5745G-7671
Acer5745G-7671
I ‘ve already examine about this laptop on my previous post (best value laptop) but, if you want cheap laptop but it’s be able to play game this laptop is perfect choiche. Yes this laptop be able to handle most of game even it in low-medium setting.

There 4 aspect why I put it on gaming laptop : Powerful Processor, Huge Ram at least 4 gb, medium-large storage device, and most important is it has dedicated  Graphic processing unit and at least 1 gb dedicated graphic memory (not shared from main memory) for more details about specification read my previous post.

This laptop is not pure gaming laptop but in some game test like Alien and predator, DIRT2 demo, and Lost planet 2 it show quite good performance in medium setting and still comfort and enjoying to play. But when I test it on high resolution setting it’s lagging and I be able to enjoying the game. that All game work on DirectX 11. But for below $650 this laptops are work to buy with decent price it’s not fair it if I compare this laptop with pure gaming laptop, buying pure gaming laptop you need at least $1.500
My score:
Performance : 88
Design : 90
Price : 95
Feature : 83
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But it’s all is just my opinion base on my data and my (team) test. And hope you enjoying reading this post. See you in next post

Sabtu, 22 Januari 2011

Best Game Performance Graphic Card (GPU)

1. MSI R6850-PM2D1GD5
Newest technology already implement on this card : Microsoft Direx X 11, AMD Eyefinity, AMD Eyespeed, and AMD HD3D technology with this all latest technology you be able to play newest 3D game.

This GPU card using 1 GB DDR5 with 256 bus speed on 4,000MHZ (4Ghz) for and for gpu on 775 Mhz. MSI Afterburner are interesting feature that with it you can make custom setting and over clock your GPU easily and on my test I reach 4,8Ghz GPU speed and 975Mhz memory clock and it make about 23% performance increase. But you need more cooler if you want to do it.

On standard speed this GPU show me good performance on game test, on Battlefield Bad Company 2 (1900x1200 setting) this card provide 36 FPS and it's little higher with his equal competitor Nvidia GTX 460 which only reach 34 FPS. on Metro 2033 game this card reach 20 FPS (1900X1200) FPS and his competitor Nvidia GTX 460 only reach maximum 16FPS. it's mean 5% higher performance yes it's not significant number, but on a lower setting the gap between them show more significant number.
my score :
Performance : 88
Design : 89
Price : 85
Feature : 87



2. Sapphire Radeon HD 6970

This card is high end performance, if we compare with his brother HD 6950 this GPU have more shader and texture unit (1536SP/96TMU). This GPU work on 880Mhz and memory on 5500Mhz. Exclusive feature like : Enhanced Quality Anti Aliasing) EQAA, AMD Power Tune Technology, and switch able dual BIOS. Sapphire Radeon HD 6970 use big vapor chamber cooling system and support full CrossfireX (multi GPU) for more performance. Dual switch BIOS placed on left side. to work this card need more power and provide by 8-pin+6pin power connector. Display output : @ DVI, 1xHDMI, and 2 miniDP which totally support eyefinity.

GPU performance is excellent there are significant increasing performance for older type. This performance significantly shown when it work use direcX 11 or intense Tessellation. If I compare it with their rival Nvidia GTX 570 on several test their performance ara almost equal, but on game performance such as AVP, Metro 2033, and 3Dmark 11 benchmark, HD 6970 lead significantly then Nvidia GTX570.

Even need more power from 8-pin+6-pin from PSU, at full load this card use less power then Nvidia GTX570 which use 6-pin+6-pin power connector, and it’s equal on idle.beside that working temperature Radeon HD 6970 is 43 C on idle and 85 C on heavy load it’s mean better then Nvidia GTX 570 that work 48 C on idle and 89 C at full load.

Overall this card very comfort to use in any game with high resolution and high detail. The only thing that I can’t talk about this card is PRICE.

My score:
Performance : 94
Design : 90
Price : 75
Feature : 90