Dell Inspiron Zino HD 410 Review

1. Introduction2. The Bundle3. The Dell Inspiron Zino HD 4104. System Setup Methodology & Bios5. Synthetic: SiSoft Sandra6. Synthetic: PCMark Vantage7. Synthetic: Cinebench 11.5 64 bit8. Bluray Playback With PowerDVD 10 Ultra9. Media Encoding with MediaEspresso10. HQV Benchmark 2.011. Flash Content12. Gaming: Left 4 Dead 213. Power Consumption14. Acoustics Performance15. Thermal Dynamics16. Closing Thoughts17. View All Pages

As this is the first time we have analysed the AMD P840 Tri Core processor on this platform we thought it would be worthwhile to run a few tests to get an overall view of performance against other hardware. Synthetic testing is not a major selling point for a system like this, so if this holds no interest, skip ahead to the media pages.

SiSoftware Sandra (the System ANalyser, Diagnostic and Reporting Assistant) is an information & diagnostic utility. It should provide most of the information (including undocumented) you need to know about your hardware, software and other devices whether hardware or software.

Sandra is a (girl) name of Greek origin that means “defender”, “helper of mankind”. We think that’s quite fitting.

It works along the lines of other Windows utilities, however it tries to go beyond them and show you more of what’s really going on. Giving the user the ability to draw comparisons at both a high and low-level. You can get information about the CPU, chipset, video adapter, ports, printers, sound card, memory, network, Windows internals, AGP, PCI, PCI-X, PCIe (PCI Express), database, USB, USB2, 1394/Firewire, etc.

Native ports for all major operating systems are available:

• Windows XP, 2003/R2, Vista, 7, 2008/R2 (x86)
• Windows XP, 2003/R2, Vista, 7, 2008/R2 (x64)
• Windows 2003/R2, 2008/R2* (IA64)
• Windows Mobile 5.x (ARM CE 5.01)
• Windows Mobile 6.x (ARM CE 5.02)

All major technologies are supported and taken advantage of:

• SMP – Multi-Processor
• MC – Multi-Core
• SMT/HT – Hyper-Threading
• MMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSSE3, SSE 4.1, SSE 4.2, AVX, FMA – Multi-Media instructions
• GPGPU, DirectX, OpenGL – Graphics
• NUMA – Non-Uniform Memory Access
• AMD64/EM64T/x64 – 64-bit extensions to x86
• IA64 – Intel* Itanium 64-bit

The AMD Phenom P840 is clearly a much more powerful processor than the Intel Atom D525 inside the ASRock ION3D system, outperforming it considerably in all of the Sandra tests. We also included the hard drive test, showing the internal 750GB drive is capable of sustaining around 100mb/s.

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