Dell Inspiron 8200 Pentium 4-M 2.0GHz

The Test

As we mentioned before, we were given the opportunity to test the Dell Inspiron 8200 with both the NVIDIA GeForce4 440 Go video solution as well as the ATI Mobility Radeon 9000 video solution. The video solution in place during testing is noted in each graph with the exception of the 2D tests where the NVIDIA GeForce4 440 Go was the only product tested (2D performance of the two products is identical). Sadly we did not have access to the Mobility Radeon 9000 card for long enough to perform in-depth power analysis of the product (as we did in our GeForce4 440 Go review) but looks for a future AnandTech article to focus on just that.

We used an older version of Unreal Tournament 2003 in our tests. The benchmarks included in this review are based on a private build of the game (8/06/02). The code in this build of Unreal Tournament 2003 is very similar to the final version of the game and should give us a good understanding of how the Dell system will perform in the release version.

Finally, since we recently changed the settings that our Serious Sam 2 tests and Jedi Knight 2 tests are run at (extreme settings and high quality settings with anisotropic filtering disabled respectively) we could only compare the Dell system to a limited number of laptops in these games. This will change as we continue using the new benchmark settings. Since our 2D testing suite has not changed, the Inspiron 8200 is compared to a variety of other notebooks solutions AnandTech has seen.

Due to the number of notebooks we will be comparing the Dell Inspiron 8200 to, the test table only includes the specifications of the Dell Inspiron 8200 and the desktop we used to compare it to. For the specs of the other notebooks, please see those reviews (which can be found easily by clicking on the hyperlinks in the performance graphs).