Toshiba Satellite X205-SLi6
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Gaming was also nice and the dual graphics cards do a great job with frame rates in current games like Unreal Tournament 2007 and Frontlines: Fuel of War. I tried out some frame rate tests and saw some good results with the graphics cards and had no problem playing some games at very high and high quality.
I also tested the laptop and compared the results with desktop and laptops using benchmark tests from Futuremark like PCMark05, 3DMark 06 and Vantage and saw some great results as well. The Benchmark tests showed a really decent computer that ran all the gaming and multimedia tests with good scores and the laptop compares favorably with other systems running some better components.
Benchmark scores are a way to test computers side by side and see what they would do in certain categories and give a way to test them using a measurable score. Many of the tests were very close to my other two desktop computers with similar video card setups. The processor and communication scores were higher on the Toshiba X205-SLi6 than my two current desktop systems while other scores like graphics are lower due to my current top of the video cards.
These benchmark scores are one way to see how a computer will perform for you when you take it home while another is to measure frame rates while playing video games. A video game uses the video card, processor and memory intensively while playing some games and the frame rates or how many times your computer will draw each page on the screen that you see per second shows how fast the combined computer components are working together.
Some games play very well at lower frame rates and others will not play well and have stuttering and other problems that take away from the enjoyment of your gaming. Two such games that play just fine at lower frame rates are Call of Duty 4 Modern Warfare and Microsoft Flight Sim X. Call of Duty 4 will be playable and enjoyable at frame rates as low as 20 while Flight Sim X is a system intensive game as it draws the entire world for any game play and plays just fine at ten frames per second.
I saw frame rates of 38 to 50 frame per second while playing Company of Heroes on a mixed quality setting and could even get the frame rates as high as 150 fps at low quality settings. Playing Call of Duty 4 Modern Warfare I saw frame rates in the 20’s with no anti-aliasing and with it at maximum quality. Turning the quality settings down did not do much to the frame rates and the game played just fine at the maximum settings and screen resolution.
Unreal Tournament 3 played very well and I saw very comparable frame rates to my desktop computers with a comparable card setup at about 30 to 50 frames per second. The game is very playable and did fine on maximum quality while playing both the single player against the computer as well as online multiplayer games. I also tried out Microsoft’s Flight Sim X and saw some average frame rates for the processor and video cards and was able to fly very well at some medium quality settings.
Flight Sim X is one of the highest computer system intensive games and to max out the settings will not decrease a good systems frame rates much but it was really nice looking and played fairly well. At some medium settings for some of the different settings I found a happy medium and played the game with very good frame rates and enjoyed a few flights near Lake Mead and Hoover Dam.
All the games I played did play well and could run at the maximum settings but not all were playable or enjoyable. On Company of Heroes I did have to set the quality down some to enjoy the game, especially when a lot of action was going on. All the games were playable and enjoyable at some medium to higher settings and the Toshiba Laptop did a good job of playing them easily.