Date: 09/28/06 (Computer Geeks)    Keywords: no keywords

After I upgraded my older HP desktop with RAM/power supply/graphics card, I ran it against my less old Dell notebook.

HP Vectra VL420 MT
P4 1.8GHz Willamette
1GB PC133 DRAM
AGP 4x, 4x100MHz FSB
Geforce 6800 128, pipes+vertex shaders unlocked

Dell Inspiron 9100
p4 3.0GHz Prescott
512MB PC3200 DDR DRAM
AGP 8x, 4x200MHz FSB
ATI Mobility Radeon 9700 128, overclocked core, overclocked memory



(Core clock of Geforce card not accurate- it's not 10MHz, trust me)

3DMark03
http://service.futuremark.com/compare?2k3=4519200

3DMark05
http://service.futuremark.com/compare?3dm05=1733530

3DMark06, for laughs (I didn't bother OCing the Dell's gfx card on this one, and the driver is different. The other scores I used were actually from the time when I used hacked/enhanced Omega drivers for the notebook- otherwise the scores would be even further apart. I don't use it now because it hangs my gfx card on a game demo)
http://service.futuremark.com/compare?3dm06=519630

Summary:

Old HP whooped newer Dell's ass. It wasn't even close for the most part. The butt cpu is now bottlenecking the older computer, and the butt graphics card is still bottlenecking the newer one. They both suck, it's just that the older computer happens to be sucking a lot less.

...and Vista runs better on the older machine

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/computergeeks/984307.html