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ASUS K42F Notebook w/ Intel Core i5 540M Arrandale CPU Review
| Manufacturer: | Intel |
| Product: | ASUS K42F-B1 14 |
| Date: | Sun, Jan 03, 2010 - 11:00 PM |
| Written By: | Nathan Kirsch - |
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POV-Ray 3.7 Beta 34
Processor Performance on Pov-Ray 3.7 Beta 34:The Persistence of Vision Ray-Tracer was developed from DKBTrace 2.12 (written by David K. Buck and Aaron A. Collins) by a bunch of people (called the POV-Team) in their spare time. It is a high-quality, totally free tool for creating stunning three-dimensional graphics. It is available in official versions for Windows, Mac OS/Mac OS X and i86 Linux. The POV-Ray package includes detailed instructions on using the ray-tracer and creating scenes. Many stunning scenes are included with POV-Ray so you can start creating images immediately when you get the package. These scenes can be modified so you do not have to start from scratch. In addition to the pre-defined scenes, a large library of pre-defined shapes and materials is provided. You can include these shapes and materials in your own scenes by just including the library file name at the top of your scene file, and by using the shape or material name in your scene. Since this is free software feel free to download this version and try it out on your own.
The most significant change from the end-user point of view between versions 3.6 and 3.7 is the addition of SMP (symmetric multiprocessing) support, which, in a nutshell, allows the renderer to run on as many CPU's as you have installed on your computer. This will be particularly useful for those users who intend on purchasing a dual-core CPU or who already have a two (or more) processor machine. On a two-CPU system the rendering speed in some scenes almost doubles. For our benchmarking we used version 3.7 beta 34, which is the most recent version available. The benchmark used all available cores to complete the render.
Once rendering on the object we selected was completed, we took the score from dialog box, which indicates the average PPS for the benchmark. A higher PPS indicates faster system performance.
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Page 1 - Core i5 540M and ASUS K42F
Page 2 - 2010 Intel HD Graphics Page 3 - The ASUS K42F 14-inch Notebook Page 4 - Test Setup Page 5 - Core i5 540M CPU-Z Page 6 - SiSoftware Sandra 2010c Page 7 - x264 HD Encoding Page 8 - Sony Vegas 9.0C Pro Page 9 - POV-Ray 3.7 Beta 34 Page 10 - Cinebench R10 Page 11 - PCMark Vantage Page 12 - 3DMark Vantage Page 13 - Spore - Game Testing Page 14 - Blu-ray Video Playback Page 15 - Power Consumption Page 16 - Battery Life Benchmark Page 17 - Final Thoughts and Conclusions |
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