This was my goal: get a small, quiet PC for the office that can that will handle the light office work and browsing but also be able to play most games well.
Last week I received my Vostro 220s. It's small, it's quiet, and at 2.8 it's quick for light office stuff at home. Here's what's amazing: the computer is located in a small cabinet with little airflow but it doesn't get hot. In fact, the rear fans still blow out kinda cool air. By 2.4 Quad computer I built would be roasting hotdogs if I put it in the same cabinet.
Friday I added the Sapphire 4650 slimline card. The card is small and very quiet. I've heard it rev up a few times but I think that's gone away since I installed the latest drivers.
I don't have any of the latest computer games that most sites use for testing and I didn't have a lot of time to play with it. However, I logged onto my machine for work this morning (slow day) and installed the Passmark Software (
www.passmark.com) Performance Software (free eval).
Let me know what you think of the results. I hope this info is helpful.
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PassMark(TM) PerformanceTest 7.0 Evaluation Version (
http://www.passmark.com)
Results generated on: Monday, March 30, 2009
Benchmark Results
Test Name: This Computer
CPU - Integer Math: 261.1
CPU - Floating Point Math: 973.1
CPU - Find Prime Numbers: 722.3
CPU - Multimedia Instructions: 6.7
CPU - Compression: 3053.3
CPU - Encryption: 8.6
CPU - Physics: 122.9
CPU - String Sorting: 1630.4
Graphics 2D - Solid Vectors: 3.5
Graphics 2D - Transparent Vectors: 3.4
Graphics 2D - Complex Vectors: 89.4
Graphics 2D - Fonts and Text: 108.0
Graphics 2D - Windows Interface: 116.1
Graphics 2D - Image Filters: 319.4
2D Graphics - Image Rendering: 196.3
Graphics 3D - Simple: 427.4
Graphics 3D - Medium: 177.8
Graphics 3D - Complex: 48.1
Graphics 3D - DirectX 10: 3.0
Memory - Allocate Small Block: 2121.4
Memory - Read Cached: 2065.7
Memory - Read Uncached: 1332.5
Memory - Write: 1540.4
Memory - Large RAM: 524.1
Disk - Sequential Read: 76.4
Disk - Sequential Write: 75.5
Disk - Random Seek + RW: 4.1
CPU Mark: 1956.2
2D Graphics Mark: 441.4
Memory Mark: 575.3
Disk Mark: 564.3
3D Graphics Mark: 391.2
PassMark Rating: 949.7
System information: This Computer
CPU Manufacturer: GenuineIntel
Number of CPU: 1
Cores per CPU: 2
CPU Type: Intel Core2 Duo E7400 @ 2.80GHz
CPU Speed: 2438.6 MHz
Cache size: 3072KB
O/S: Windows Vista (32-bit)
Total RAM: 2046.3 MB.
Available RAM: 1001.8 MB.
Video settings: 1680x1050x32
Video driver:
DESCRIPTION: ATI Radeon HD 4650
MANUFACTURER: ATI Technologies Inc.
BIOS: 11X-2E109000-02A