Was there ever a dual core C900?

[ExoMale]

the laptop I am using is an old advent M100 blue with a C900, but on the sticker and when I look the laptop up, it states it’s a dual core, but when I google C900, everything comes up saying it’s a single core? I know there is a single core version as I used to have one before, but I’m under the impression my version is dual core as stated, so is this true or false claiming?

While it was free to me, as my main use of computer based stuff ie general browsing/YouTube/spreadsheets I am considering looking for some a little faster, but like under £50, so comparing processors at the moment.

 

[ExoMale]

Thanks for reply.

Mean I don’t have to spend under 50, I could spend a bit more, but unless it’s one of those i5 or i7 processors with like a gt 500/600 series dedicated gpu or a amd counterpart then I will be wanting to keep it under £100, just don’t want to spend more than I need to for improved performance. I don’t have the 250gb drive that comes with the m100 blue as it was my mums laptop, so I fitted a spare 160gb, I could get a used 64gb ssd for it, but if the dual core listed is false then it won’t be worthwhile as it’s doing what I need fine enough so far, but long term it’s not the laptop I want.

I have an iPad Air 2 I’m too used to as I use it almost every day, so using anything but apple will bother me, so rather not go down another tablet route unless it was one of those convertibles.

 

[ExoMale]

Thanks for reply.

For £100 or less I don’t expect a laptop with dedicated graphics and an i5 or i7, not to generation I would want, I know I could get an A6/A8 quad apu laptop for that much, but I am trying to see what I could get that be worth while at the lower end, this m100 while is decent, but can’t go beyond 2gb ram, so I want at least 4gb and as it’s not a dual core like it states then I want a hyperthreading dual even if it’s an i5 as they have turbo.

ultimately I want to save and find an old generation of gaming laptop for £200 or less, the ones that had for example a gtx 460, but had like i7 processors or something in them, something that was aimed for gaming, but dx11 generation , how often I would play games wouldn’t make me worried about low-medium only settings, I just couldn’t justify saving £500 minimum for a used gaming model with a 950m-980m as I wouldn’t use it enough which is why I wouldn’t aim for one.


As for the laptops you mentioned, dedicated graphics, i5 or higher, I wouldn’t pay anywhere near £70 nevermind much higher for a laptop that needs work, I don’t care how good the spec might be, how much a screen etc would cost I could just buy a better complete no fault model, I am good at building computers and trying to solve desktop problems, but laptops are a no go as they too much of a pain I don’t have enough clue how to fix them hardware wise.

 

[ExoMale]

I been looked at AMD A4/A6/A8 laptops at under £100 but all these laptops has very old Radeon HD 6520G to 8180 IGPUs are all based on old TeraScale 2 architecture from Radeon HD 5000 series, it almost 10 years old now and has around 40-50 GFLOPs while CherryTrail Z8350 GPU are based on Skylake architecture achieved around 90-130 GFLOPs and it capable to run DirectX 11, 12 and Vulkan games, plus it has hardware accelerated VP8, VP9 and HEVC decoders that old Radeon GPUs lacked.

Well I googled at 8 years old laptops with GTX 460M found all CPUs used i7 i7-720QM and i7-740QM but there is no way you can get these one for £200 or less, actually I found many listed on ebay and sold list for £350 to £550 upgraded with SSD and found one on CEX for £350. But I would not justify get these one if I were you as they were slower 8 years old with 1st generation 4C/8T i7 720QM achieved 3022 passmark and GTX 460M achieved 518.4 GFLOPS while you could find 4 years old laptop with 4th generation 2C/4T i5-4200M achieved 4040 passmark and GT 740M/GT 750M achieved 622.1/742.7 GFLOPS for around £200-£250.

to be honest so long it is dx11 and had atleast 1gb of dedicated memory then it wouldnt bother me for age, my last dedicated gpu laptop was a pentium dual core with an 8300gs lol, i used to game on a 5470 years ago, would have another laptop with that if i could find one with an i5, but an APU is only good if its got 8gb or 16gb system ram for better allocation.

as for the old gaming, i say £200 because someone offered me one sometime early last year and it was a ROG with an i7 and gtx 460 and they rebuilt it and wanted £200, i just couldnt afford it as i purchased that dual core with 8300gs laptop off them for £40 lol, so i havent actually looked, just basically mean i dont want ones with a 950m or higher, i want older for more affordability and because i wouldnt use it enough, just if i could get an i7 26**qm with a gt620-650 for £150 for example, might as well aim a little higher if i can.

 

[ExoMale]

Sorry it was an Acer aspire 5740g, it had an i5 540m or 430m with a 512mb or 1gb 5470 gpu with hypermemory, was a great laptop, so I meant the gpu.

I didn’t have £200 to spare and I needed a laptop, so I was collecting the cheaper basic one anyways, it was a shame as I know ROG are good models, oh well still have time to get one.

I try to look at A10 laptops, but never know quite how good the igp are as some sound good and some sound week and those sort of APU units I would look to try some gaming.

 

[ExoMale]

Can’t edit title on mobile device.

Laptop had non proper English keyboard and suppose a dual core is going to be faster even if it’s still a celeron lol so please delete the thread. Thank you.

 

[ExoMale]

Thanks for reply.

Yeah I didn’t think the N2810 was a big improvement as it’s still a celeron and did read they basically rebranded Atoms, it was more with the graphics side with the hd4000 assuming the one I saw had that, is better than the gma of the 900(well it’s not called gma in spec sheet), but as per that thread I decided against it anyways, i could play some oldie games on it fine, but would like to be able to play them better or other games without the need for a gaming laptop as I browse more than anything, just be nice to be able to sit on the sofa and play a game lol.

Those models you mentioned seem cool, however a tablet is not what I want, I have an iPad Air 2 and rather have a proper laptop than a tablet with a keyboard attached for window based, so thank you for the suggestions.

I will just wait till I find something worthwhile, too many people selling damaged models for too high a price just becuse they have dedicated graphic cards and possibly i3 plus processors or high end old pentiums, from my search, £150 seems to be the minimum for something in good condition of such specs without being one of these celerons/amd e series with 32gb ssd’s.

 

[ExoMale]

The N2810 is more efficient with a built-in GPU but it will probably feel just as fast as the Celeron 900. Perhaps slightly smoother because of the multiple cores.

i know ram plays a big part in speed, so anything that takes more than 2gb should make it more speedy, i cant justify any ssd other than my 32gb in such a poor performing laptop, whats annoying me more than misleading celeron spec is what intel versions of graphics are being used and its not just low end celerons.

for example for £50 i have seen an old HP elitebook 2540p which has an i7 640lm (2c4t), okay this one has crappy 1.8" hdd version due to optical drive and supports like 8gb ram, but it has intel HD graphics which is first of the generations and finding it difficult to establish how much of an upgrade it is or isnt, this is going against my other threads, but still keeping options open.

 

[ExoMale]

If you do choose to get an SSD, do not go as low as 32GB. Have a search on Google for people trying to run Windows Updates on a 32GB SSD. Problems almost always come to surface when Microsoft pushes their 6 monthly updates out, which are effectively a reinstallations of Windows but keeping most of the user's settings and programs. Users have to practically strip everything from their current installation before there is barely enough space for the update - and even that doesn't always work.

Do yourself a favour and save yourself a massive headache by getting a 64GB SSD at least.

thanks for the reply.

no i wont get another 32gb ssd next time round or least not as a main drive, although mine seems okay and now has like 8.?gb left after some updates from windows 10 enterprise im trying, i didnt buy it for regular use, it was meant to be for my am1 build, just never swapped over lol, regardless of being used and a transcend model, with it being sata3 working backwards for my older hardware, it likely is much slower than it ever was originally, so i probably try a sata 2 ssd next time unless i get a laptop or something with sata 3.

 

[ExoMale]

The only use cases where it would be noticeable are copying from one SSD to another (within the same machine, unless you have 10gb+ network), or when loading games (which you likely haven't got room for anyway). Main benefit from an SSD is still the random access speed, rather than outright bandwidth.

No point looking specifically for a SATA2 ssd in this day and age.

well no i wouldnt specifically look for sata 2, but if i see one at the same time of a sata 3 thats similar price and maybe bigger capacity then i will get one to keep maximum running performance, really the only boost ive noticed with my transcend when i have used the computer is how quickly it installed windows and boot ups as i assume its vital for, suppose i havent been able to install much software to test on that, but when i had a 120gb kingston v300 in an old laptop it was fair, but not as quick as i thought. maybe i will buy the teamgroup 120gb for its price as a spare.

 

[ExoMale]

the kingston was a sata 3, but was used also.

ah right okay then, mean i know sata 3 are better, but id have thought if a S3 works at like half the performance in backwards compatibility then in theory a S2 with a potential max performance matching the half performance of S3 would perform better overall as its not technically being held back.