OcUK Professional W540 UltraNote 14″ LED Ultra Book Review

Now we move onto some general performance and while we would normally love to dive into some hardcore benchmarks, many of them are pointless when it comes to this system, this system isn’t slow but it is designed to be efficient and have a long battery life, not colossal graphics performance.

As you can see it features the i5 3210M Ivy Bridge, 22nm CPU that runs at 2.5GHz, although the CPU does adjust its speed dependant on system load to help reduce battery usage.

The Corsair PC3-12800H DDR3 memory is clocked at a tidy 1600MHz, more than enough for most end users.

Heaven is a great benchmark and while the basic setting didn’t run that well it’s about on par with what I expected for the Intel HD 4000 graphics that are built into the CPU.

Extreme all but crippled the system, this isn’t an ultra book for gaming but I’m certain that it still packs enough grunt to do some moderate video rendering and photoshop editing.

Valley ran pretty well, again scoring where I expect it to and it is an impressive score for any ultra book in my opinion. I had run presets above Basic but graphical errors were occurring and the FPS was appalling, that’s not unexpected though as Valley is a real tough test for many graphics chips.

Finally we have PCMark7 and a decent score too, likely helped along by the eSATA SSD and the high quality 2 x 4GB of Corsair ram.