Velocity Micro Vector GX Campus Edition review (overclocked Core 2 Duo E6320)

Apple iTunes encoding test
(Shorter bars indicate better performance)

In seconds

Velocity Micro Vector GX Campus Edition

136 

HP Pavilion Media Center m8120n

171 

Dell Inspiron 531

172 

Gateway DX430X

188 

eMachines T5230

193 

Cinebench 9.5
(Longer bars indicate better performance)

Rendering multiple CPUs

Rendering a single CPU

HP Pavilion Media Center m8120n

1,241 

400 

Velocity Micro Vector GX Campus Edition

923 

503 

Dell Inspiron 531

709 

384 

Gateway DX430X

654 

354 

eMachines T5230

632 

341 

Quake 4 performance (in fps)
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1,024x768 (4xAA, 8xAF)

Velocity Micro Vector GX Campus Edition

94.1 

Gateway DX430X

93.5 

Dell Inspiron 531

69.5 

HP Pavilion Media Center m8120n

15.5 

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 7,200rpm Western Digital hard drive

eMachines T5230
Windows Vista Home Premium; 2.3GHz AMD Athlon 64 X2 4400; 1GB 667MHz DDR2 SDRAM; 128MB (shared) Nvidia GeForce 6150SE graphics chip; 250GB 7,200rpm Western Digital 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 7,200rpm 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 7,200rpm Hitachi hard drives

Velocity Micro Vector GX Campus Edition
Windows Vista Home Premium; Intel Core 2 Duo 6320 overclocked to 3.0GHz; 2GB 800MHz DDR2 SDRAM; 256MB Nvidia GeForce 8600 GT graphics card; 320GB 7,200rpm Hitachi hard drive.