Alienware Aurora mALX 19″ Gaming Notebook Review

3D Modeling

With two decent video adapters built into the Aurora mALX, the system should perform well in these tests but will the CPU hold it back?

• Asus VX1 – Intel T7400 Core 2 Duo, 2x1GB RAM, NVIDIA Go 7400 512MB
• Asus Z96J – Intel T7600 Core 2 Duo, 2x512MB RAM, ATI Mobility X1600 256MB
• Dell M1710 – Intel T2600 Core Duo, 2x1024MB RAM, NVIDIA Go 7900 GS 256MB
• Alienware mALX – AMD Turion 64 ML-44, 2×1024 RAM, 2x NVIDIA GeForce Go 7900 GTX 512MB
• Alienware m9700 – AMD Turion 64 ML-44, 2×1024 RAM, 2x NVIDIA GeForce Go 7900 GS 512MB

• Asus VX1 – Intel T7400 Core 2 Duo, 2x1GB RAM, NVIDIA Go 7400 512MB
• Asus Z96J – Intel T7600 Core 2 Duo, 2x512MB RAM, ATI Mobility X1600 256MB
• Dell M1710 – Intel T2600 Core Duo, 2x1024MB RAM, NVIDIA Go 7900 GS 256MB
• Alienware mALX – AMD Turion 64 ML-44, 2×1024 RAM, 2x NVIDIA GeForce Go 7900 GTX 512MB
• Alienware m9700 – AMD Turion 64 ML-44, 2×1024 RAM, 2x NVIDIA GeForce Go 7900 GS 512MB

• Asus VX1 – Intel T7400 Core 2 Duo, 2x1GB RAM, NVIDIA Go 7400 512MB
• Asus Z96J – Intel T7600 Core 2 Duo, 2x512MB RAM, ATI Mobility X1600 256MB
• Dell M1710 – Intel T2600 Core Duo, 2x1024MB RAM, NVIDIA Go 7900 GS 256MB
• Alienware mALX – AMD Turion 64 ML-44, 2×1024 RAM, 2x NVIDIA GeForce Go 7900 GTX 512MB
• Alienware m9700 – AMD Turion 64 ML-44, 2×1024 RAM, 2x NVIDIA GeForce Go 7900 GS 512MB

Running professional modeling and rendering applications is fairly common these days thanks to increasingly powerful notebooks. The Aurora mALX plows through Spec ViewPerf and Cinebench fairly easily. The CPU is holding the performance back a little since 3D modeling is also very CPU intensive.