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ASUS X51R Notebook Review: Excellent Budget Solution (page 11)

Category: Mobile

by Alexander Britvin

[ 11/11/2007 | 09:17 AM ]

There were two test modes in Quake 3:

• 640x480; 16 bit; Vertex Lighting; Low Detail; 16-bit Texture Quality; Bilinear Texture Filter
• 1024x768; 32 bit; Lightmap Lighting; High Detail; 32-bit Texture Quality; Trilinear Texture Filter

And in one mode in Quake 4:

• Overall Quality – High; Resolution – 1024x768; Format – 4:3; Multi-core Optimization – Enabled. Other settings were left default.

There was no standard demo record in Quake 4, so we had to create it by ourselves and we use it in every review of mobile PCs on our site so that different devices can be compared under identical conditions.

The graphics performance of the tested notebook is similar to that of notebooks with Intel’s GMA 950 core. It is not high enough for playing modern games. The X51R is obviously not for gamers, but for office workers.