Benchmarks
Windows 7 Boot Time – Measuring with digital stopclock
x264 HD 4.0 – 1st and 2nd pass encoding
CrystalDiskMark 3 – Sequential Read/Write
Cinebench 11.5 – CPU Score
AIDA64 – Disk/Cache benchmarks
SiSoftware SANDRA 2011 – CPU benchmarks
3DMark 11 – Performance and Extreme preset
Gaming – DIRT 3 and Skyrim (Average FPS)

The above benchmarks will be run on both systems amd compared. The P170EM delivers high-end performance and will be compared to a series of previously reviewed systems.

P170EM takes advantage of Intel Ivy Bridge’s mobile desktop CPU – 3630QM which uses 6MB of L3 cache and has a frequency of 2.4GHz, this of course boosts from 1GHz when not loaded to 3GHz.

P170EM also uses a substantial 8GB of DDR3 operating at 1600MHz and CL9. Combined with a 2GB AMD HD7970M and you can well imagine this notebook is very powerful indeed. Furthermore the boot drive has been given SATA 3 treatment and utilises a 64GB ADATA SP900 SSD for fast bootup times – so the fundamentals for a speedy system are all there, let’s see how P170EM performs.