damn the pentium M is quick!!

[Cyber-Mav]

hi all, i got a laptop just a few days ago and now that its been up and running iv had time to bench mark it and its darn quick

the spec in my sig scores a super pi 1mb score of 43.summink seconds.
the pentium-M 730 (1.6ghz) lappy with 256mb ddr2 533mhz ram scores 47.656s.

thats darn quick considering the clock speed disadvantage it has over my xp-m setup.

also will bench again in a few hours, my 2gig ram kit for the lappy has arrived so this lappy will have sam ram as my desktop pc so it will be a better test.
also will see if the dual channel setup on the lappy gives any performance advantage.

 

[Cyber-Mav]

ahh, but will the laptop see a benefit from the dual channel ram? since the fsb is 533mhz and the current ram is 533mhz so im assuming a 1:1 ratio. cpu z says that the cpu is running on a 133fsb that is quad pumped to 533mhz.

to benefit from dual channel ram setup doesn;t the fsb have to be higher? otherwise it will be like the old AXP cpus on nforce 2 boards.?

 

[Cyber-Mav]

damn thats quick. ok if got my 2 gig of ram in place in the laptop will run super pi now.

 

[Cyber-Mav]

ok with 2 gigs of ocz ddr2 533 4-4-4-12 ram in the lappy the super pi 1m score is 46.531 not bad at all for a 1.6ghz cpu.

although running in dual channel seems to have made only a very slight difference. guess the fsb is the limiting factor now.

wonder if the integrated gfx which is an intel chip on pci-e bus would benefit from the dual channel ram setup. shame i did not run any gfx card test before the ram upgrade.

 

[Cyber-Mav]

can't adjust any timings in the bios since the advanced settings section in the bios is locked out to me. acer did a number on these laptops and limited what can be done in the bios.

 

[Cyber-Mav]

cool, just wish there was a way i could get a tv out connection on this laptop, it doesn't have svideo connection, just have a vga out and usb sockets.

 

[Cyber-Mav]

wondering if i can put a faster cpu in my laptop, currently its the PM730 was wondering if the 750 is a direct replacement?

 

[Cyber-Mav]

would i be able to put one of those core duo dual core cpus in my laptop or do they run on a different socket?

 

[Cyber-Mav]

would a PM780 be a direct fit in my lappy? just asking because i want to see what sort of upgrade life this laptop has.
currently happy with the 2 gigs of ram it has