At $ 2.300, Extreme M1 17-inch gaming CyberPower notebook is the antithesis of the Gateway P- budget FX 7811 we have been raving about for months. The most obvious extravagance that you get the highest price is dual-GPU graphics in the form of two ATI Radeon HD 3870 cards in CrossFireX. The M1 Extreme 2.53GHz T9400 Core 2 Duo CPU is 270MHz faster and offers twice as proc cache of the gateway, the 320GB hard drive is more than 50 percent larger, and its optical drive supports reading Blu-ray.
The question is, how these extras reflect the performance? Compared to our zero laptop, M1 Extreme excelled in all benchmarks to varying degrees-not surprising given the age of the zero point. Against the Gateway P-7811 FX, there was a little more give and take. For example, in the producer ProShow and MainConcept pins, the CyberPower platform were oscillating gains around 10 percent, which is proportional to the speed of clock advantage of the M1 2.26GHz CPU Gateway.
Gaming has an even more interesting story. We did not expect the dual-GPU in the M1 Extreme to really flex their muscles in our standard benchmarks portable as FEAR and Quake 4 are not as graphically intensive, especially the soft settings that we use in our mobile tests. But we certainly did not expect the M1 Extreme extinguished only 28fps in FEAR that is 74 percent slower than the Gateway budget machine. No clear explanation for the performance of delay, we forged on. In Quake 4, the Extreme M1 was more expected 7 percent faster than P-7811 FX Gateway.
We went further and tested the M1 Extreme gaming desktop with our marks as well. After all, CrossFireX graphics should be at the height of the most graphically challenging tracks. And of course, we were able to run Crysis at 1920x1200 native resolution of the M1 and made very high quality, but just 15fps. With Unreal Tournament 3, the M1 Extreme exceeded even some gaming desktops with 114fps. Gateway P-7811 FX with its single GeForce GTS 9800N, reached half of frame rates in both games: 8fps and 74fps for Crysis and UT3, respectively. Indeed, the overall gaming prowess M1 Extreme convinced us that the score of FEAR is probably the result of a driver problem and no gaps equipment.
Yet despite his skill as a platform game, we have some reservations on the M1 Extreme. It is heavier than most gaming laptops, weighing nearly 13 pounds with its power supply; its 12 cell battery can not provide the juice for two hours, we had an hour and 50 minutes with a standard-def DVDs in energy-saving mode; and its speakers are weak and spindly. More troubling, the M1 Extreme does not feel quite strong for us: There was a slight deformation of the strip of touch controls above the keyboard of the machine, and the laptop lid showed scratches after only a few days into using it is little consolation that the scratches were camouflaged by all the stains and fingerprints quickly that covered glossy black veneer machine. For the price of this notebook, we expect a better quality
Specification
CPU :. 2.53GHz Intel Core 2 Duo Mobile T9400
RAM: 4 GB DDR3 / 1.066MHz
Chipset: Intel PM45
Hard Drive: 320GB Western digital WD3200BEKT-22F3T0 (7,200rpm)
Optical: HL-DT -ST BDDVDRW CT10N
GPU: Dual ATI Radeon HD 3870 (CrossFireX)
Boot / Down: 37 sec / 49 sec
Lap / Carry: 9 lbs, 11oz / 12 lbs 12 oz
COMPASS
Zero Point CyberPower Extreme M1
Premiere Pro CS3: 1, 1517 sec sec 860
Photoshop CS3: 237 sec 207 sec
ProSho: 1.834 sec 2.416 sec
MainConcept: 3270 sec 3,498 sec
FEAR1.07: 14 fps 28 fps (100%)
Quake 4: 29.1 fps 142 fps (+ 388%)
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