HP Pavilion m8120n Media Center TV review

Cinebench 9.5
(Longer bars indicate better performance)

Rendering multiple CPUs

Rendering single CPU

Dell XPS 710

1,309 

429 

HP Pavilion Media Center m8120n

1,241 

400 

Velocity Micro Promagix E2035

733 

400 

Dell Inspiron 531

709 

384 

Gateway DX430

654 

354 

Quake 4 performance (in frames per second)
(Longer bars indicate better performance)

1,024x768 (4X AA, 8X AF)

Dell XPS 710

107.5 

Gateway DX430

93.5 

Velocity Micro Promagix E2035

83.7 

Dell Inspiron 531

69.5 

HP Pavilion Media Center m8120n

15.5 

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System configurations:

Dell Inspiron 531
Windows Vista Home Premium; 2.6GHz AMD Athlon 64 X2 5000+; 2GB 667MHz DDR2 SDRAM; 256MB Nvidia GeForce 8600 GT graphics card; 250GB 7,200 rpm Western Digital hard drive

Dell XPS 710
Windows XP Professional SP2; 2.66GHz Intel Core 2 Duo X6800; 2,048MB DDR2 SDRAM 667MHz; (2) 512MB Nvidia GeForce 7950 GX2 (Quad SLI); (2) 150GB Western Digital 10,000rpm Serial ATA/150 hard drives (RAID 0); 750GB Seagate 7,200rpm Serial ATA hard drive

Gateway DX430X
Windows Vista Home Premium; 2.13GHz Intel Core 2 Duo E6420; 2GB 667MHz DDR2 SDRAM; 320MB Nvidia GeForce 8800 GTS graphics card; 500GB 7,200 rpm Seagate hard drive

HP Pavilion Media Center m8120n
Windows Vista Home Premium; 2.4GHz Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600; 3GB 1,066MHz DDR2 SDRAM; 128MB Nvidia GeForce 7350 LE graphics card; two 320GB 7,200 rpm Hitachi hard drives

Velocity Micro ProMagix E2035
Windows Vista Home Premium; 2.4GHz Intel Core 2 Duo E6600; 2GB 667MHz DDR2 SDRAM; 512MB Nvidia GeForce 8600 GT graphics card; 320GB 7,200 rpm Hitachi hard drive