Rock Pegasus 650 Dungeons and Dragons

Written by James Morris

May 27, 2006 | 08:56

Tags: #650 #benchmark #dragons #dungeons #m #mmorpg #mobility #online #pegasus #pentium #radeon #review #x700

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General performance

We tested the Pegasus 650 in our usual round of benchmarks for standard performance testing.

Rock Pegasus 650 Dungeons and Dragons General performance

Rock Pegasus 650 Dungeons and Dragons General performance

Rock Pegasus 650 Dungeons and Dragons General performance

As you can see, the Pentium M is beaten out by its newer sibling, the Core Duo. However, that's not to say that it puts in a bad performance. Unfortunately, the Pentium M architecture is severely memory bandwidth limited, which inhibits performance.

Gaming performance

We ran the machine through our usual suite of game tests and found it unusable. Those tests were designed for top-end notebooks, and this is not a top-end notebook.

If you're gaming on this, you will want to drop the details down quite a bit. For instance, to get Doom 3 to be playable we had to move to 800x600 at Medium Quality. On an LCD that is designed for 1680x1050, the resulting scaling looks pretty horrendous. The X700 really suffers in other games too, with FEAR needing to be scaled back to similar levels.

Of course, this laptop is built around dungeons and Dragons and Dragons, and thankfully that game is a little easier on the graphics. We were able to play at 1280x1024 with a fair amount of eye candy on - although that still doens't look ideal at non-native resolution. Similar levels of detail were obtained in World of Warcraft, which was perfectly playable whilst not looking particularly great.
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