Pre-installed Software and Performance
As mentioned earlier, the Lenovo C315 ships with Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit pre-installed. After applying the latest Windows updates I checked the installed programs list for any bloatware and was pleasantly surprised with what I saw. Aside from some Lenovo-branded software, there were only a few "usual suspect" suites: a 60-day trial of Microsoft Office 2007, McAfee SecurityCenter and CyberLink PowerCinema.
The Lenovo-branded software includes Lenovo Vantage Technology (LVT), VeriTouch and IdeaTouch. The first of these is accessible via software or the dedicated button on the keyboard, which activates a drop-down menu at the top of the screen with links to the Application Experience Center, System maintenance Center and Help Center.
Under Application Experience Center you'll find a CD/DVD burning software from CyberLink branded as Power2Go, while System Maintenance Center gives you access to OneKey Recovery and Driver & Application Installation and Help Center merely gives you more information about LVT in general.
VeriTouch allows you to draw gestures in a specified area to accomplish various system tasks. For example, drawing a triangle will restart the computer while drawing a circle will shut the system down. You can set up a password for VeriTouch. Meanwhile, IdeaTouch is simply a touch menu to start PowerCinema, VeriTouch or Microsoft AutoCollage.
Below we have included a set of benchmark results from several tests that were run on the C315 to give you an idea of how its processor, hard drive and memory system perform under load.
Hardware:
- AMD Athlon II X2 250U Processor (1.60GHz 2MB)
- x2 2GB PC2-6400 DDR2 SDRAM 400MHz (4GB total)
- Lenovo motherboard with AMD 690G chipset
- ATI HD 4530 M92-M+
- Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 500GB 7200RPM
- DVD-RW Drive
Software:
- Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium (64-bit)
- ATI Catalyst 10.6
Score | |
3DMark 06 (1280 x 800) | |
3DMark Score | 2726 3DMarks |
SM 2.0 Score | 1000 |
SM 3.0 Score | 1147 |
CPU Score | 1197 |
PCMark Vantage x64 (1024 x 768) | |
PCMark Score | 3566 PCMarks |
Memories Suite | 2274 |
TV and Movies Suite | 2158 |
Gaming Suite | 2818 |
Music Suite | 3775 |
Communication Suite | 3190 |
HDD Test Suite | 4244 |
Communication Suite | 3190 |
Super PI Mod 1.5 | |
1M test | 0m 49.686 sec |
4M test | 4m 11.519 sec |
Sandra processor arithmetic | |
Agregate arithmetic performance | 9.8 GOPS |
Dhrystone iSSE4.2 | 11 GIPS |
Whetstone iSSE3 | 8.68 GFLOPS |
Sandra processor multimedia | |
Aggregate multimedia performance | 28 MPixel/s |
Multimedia Integer x16 iSSE4.1 | 34.66 MPixel/s |
Multimedia Float x8 iSSE2 | 21.15 MPixel/s |
Multimedia Double x4 iSSE2 | 11.63 MPixel/s |
Sandra memory bandwidth | |
Aggregate Memory Performance | 16.53 GB/s |
Integer Buff'd iSSE2 Memory Bandwidth | 16.52 GB/s |
Float Buff'd iSSE2 Memory Bandwidth | 16.54 GB/s |
Sandra memory latency | |
Memory Latency | 156 ns |
Speed Factor | 73.60 |
Sandra file systems | |
Drive Score | 100.1 MB/s |
Random Access Time | 6.5 ms |
Sandra physical disks | |
Drive Score | 106.16 MB/s |
Random Access Time | 14 ms |
Average fps | |
Crysis (Medium quality, DirectX 9) | |
1024 x 768, no AA/AF | 18 fps |
Unreal Tournament 3 (Medium quality, DirectX 10) | |
1024 x 768, no AA/AF | 34 fps |
Unreal Tournament 3 (High quality, DirectX 10) | |
1024 x 768, 4x AA / 16x AF | 29 fps |