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Thursday, 02 July 2009 08:23 Mads D.

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Article Index
ASUS W90vP. Size matters
Specifications
Package contents
Construction & Design
First impression
First impression continued
Special Features
Benchmark
Benchmark continued
Overclocking
Gaming
Conclusion
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Benchmark

Comparison

The Asus W90 is pitted against Zepto’s Hydra A17 which is aimed at the same user group and can still compete with many laptops when it comes to performance. The price is unknown though, since Zepto has seemingly phased out the Hydra completely.

Zepto Hydra A17 offers:

-    Intel Core 2 Extreme X9100 – 3.06 GHz - 6MB cache
-    Intel PM45 – Bios: 1.00.09ZC
-    4 GB (2x2 GB) DDR3 PC8500 1066 MHz
-    Nvidia 9800M GTX - 1GB DDR3
-    128 GB High-Speed Solid State Disc SATA
-    17" Widescreen - WUXGA - 1920 x 1200 px
-    Blu-ray / DVD-RW SATA drive
-    8 celled Li-ion battery
-    Microsoft Windows Vista Ultimate 64bit

You can find our review of the Hydra A17 here:
http://www.laptop-review.eu

The Asus W90 ran all benchmarks at standard settings and Asus’ Standard Mode which makes the computer run at a fixed CPU frequency of 2805 MHz. One of the GPUs is deactivated when running on battery.

Boot and out of standby times

Boot and out of standby times are measured from when the power button is pressed and the Windows desktop appears.

The boot time is at 108 seconds which is quite a lot; this is due to the software being loaded when Windows starts up. Here the Hydra A17 wins with 61 seconds.

Battery life

Battery-eater Pro 2,70 is used to measure the longevity of the batteries.

Idle test settings: Fixed clock frequency of 1843 MHz, brightness 1/8, HDD standby after 10 minutes and WiFi activated.

Classic test settings: Fixed clock frequency of 2805 MHz, brightness 8/8, HDD standby after 10 minutes and WiFi activated.

As can be seen on the graph, the Asus W90 only lasts about an hour, however with such hardware that’s not surprising. The Hydra A17 lasts about twice as long during idle, but 2 hours and 20 minutes is not particularly impressive either.

Processor

Sisoft Sandra CPU Aritmetic

SiSoft Sandras Whetstone and Drystone benchmark tests the processor’s ability to do pure number crunching, which occurs during gaming or different forms of picture editing. The measure is in Mflops (Millions Floating Point Operations Per Second) – the higher, the better.

The Zepto Hydra A17 is equipped with an Intel Core 2 Extreme X9100 – 3.06 GHz - 6MB cache whereas the Asus W90 is equipped with an Intel Core 2 Duo T9600 – 2.80 GHz – 6 MB L2 cache. Both have overclocking potential and when it comes to performance the two are fairly even, though the X9100 is slightly faster as can be seen.

Sisoft Sandra CPU Multimedia

The multimedia test in SiSoft Sandra is calculated on a 2D figure. The output (it/s) is Mandelbrot iterations per second, i.e. the bigger the better.

Here the results are scattered, which may be due to an error in the benchmarking process.

wPrime 2.00

wPrime calculates the square root of numbers up to 32 million, and is capable of utilizing multiple cores to reach the processor’s maximum potential.

The Zepto Hydra A17 has unfortunately not been tested in wPrime, but the W90 gets a pretty good result nonetheless.