A Warning To Upgraders: Careful When Upgrading The CPU!
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Our Test And Comparison Systems, Continued
- 3. Detailed Configuration: Test And Comparison Systems
- 4. Pictures Of The Turion 64/Mobile Sempron Test System
- 5. Mobile Sempron Test System, Continued
- 6. Mobile Sempron Test System, Continued
- 7. Turion 64 And Centrino Notebook Cooling Systems Are Barely Different
- 8. Turion 64 Or Mobile Sempron: Which CPU For What Uses?
- 9. Representative Office Application
- 10. 3-D Game Play
- 11. A Warning To Upgraders: Careful When Upgrading The CPU!
- 12. Battery Tests
- 13. Battery Lifetime
- 14. Battery Charge Times
- 15. Doom 3
- 16. Unreal Tournament 2004
- 17. SiSoftware Sandra Pro (Synthetic Benchmark)
- 18. WinRAR (Data Compression)
- 19. Windows Media Encoder (Video Encoding And Processing)
- 20. Studio 9 Plus (Video Encoding And Processing)
- 21. Conclusion: Goals May Be Met, But There's Still Room For Improvement
11. A Warning To Upgraders: Careful When Upgrading The CPU!
Users who might be interested in upgrading their notebooks can learn the following from our experiences: Those who conceive the notion to endow their notebooks with faster, better-performing CPUs should consult with the maker in every such case. Just as we couldn't get the cooling system to keep our overclocked system running at full speed over an extended period, because power consumption of a new CPU is likely to be higher than that of the CPU it replaces by design, you must ponder the likelihood that a CPU intended to upgrade system performance may actually result in an effective performance downgrade!
Benchmarks And Settings
OK, we've kept you in suspense long enough now. The following pages will show how the Megabook M635 with a Turion MT-34 and a Mobile Sempron 2800+ fared against the competitive offering from Intel. The following table provides an overview of our head-to-head test array.
| Memory | |
|---|---|
| DDR2-400 (Dual Channel) | 2 x 512 MB - DDR2-533 (333 MHz)
Infineon HYS64T64020GDL-3.7-A PC2-4300S-444-11 |
| DDR333 (Single Channel) | 2 x 512 MB - DDR400
Infineon HYS64D64020 GBDL-5-B PC3200S-3033-0-Z |
| Notebooks | |
| Intel 915GM | Dell D610 (Bios: A02) |
| Intel 855GM | Uniwill 223II0 (Bios: 1.06) |
| Software | |
| Intel 855GM/915GM Graphics | V 14.11 (3/16/2005) |
| Intel 855GM/915GM Chiset | V 6.3.0.1007 (12/16/2004) |
| LAN-Driver (Dell 610): | V 7.86.0.0 |
| LAN-Driver (223II00): | Windows Realtek Default |
| DirectX | Version: 9.0c (4.09.0000.0904) |
| OS | Windows XP, Build 2600 SP2 |
| Benchmarks and Settings | |
|---|---|
| OpenGL | |
| Quake III Team Arena | Version 1.32
1024x768 - 32 bit Timedemo1 / demo thg3 "custom timedemo" Graphics detail = High Quality |
| Doom III | Version: 1.1
1024x768 - 32 bit Video Quality = High Quality |
| DirectX 8 | |
| Unreal Tournament 2004 | Version: 3255
1280 x 1024 / 32 bit / Audio = off 1024 x 768 / 32 bit / Audio = off THG8-assault-single |
| DirectX 9 | |
| 3DMark03 | Version 3.6.0
1024 x 786 - 32 bit Graphics and CPU Default Benchmark |
| FarCry | Version 1.1 Build 1256
1024 x 768 - 32 bit (light) 1024 x 768 - 32 bit (w/o light) qualtity options = low |
| 3DMark05 | Version 1.1
1024 x 786 - 32 bit Graphics and CPU Default Benchmark |
| Video | |
| Mainconcept MPEG Encoder | Version: 1.4.2
1.2 GB DV to MPEG II (720x576, Audio) converting |
| Pinnacle Studio 9 Plus | Version: 9.1.2
from: 352x288 MPEG-2 41 MB to: 720x576 MPEG-2 95 MB Encoding and Transition Rendering to MPEG-2/DVD no Audio |
| Auto Gordian Knot
DivX 5.2 XviD 1.0.2 |
Version: 2.05 Beta
Audio = AC3 6ch Custom size = 100 MB Resulution settings = Fixed width Codec = XviD and DivX 5 Audio = CBR MP3, kbps 192 182 MB VOB MPEG2-source |
| Windows Media Encoder | Version: 9.00.00.2980
720x480 DV to WMV 320x240 (29.97 fps) 282 kBps streaming |
| Windows Media Player 10 | Version: 10.00.00.36.46 |
| Audio | |
| Lame MP3 | Version 3.79 Alpha 2
Wave 17:14 minutes (182 MB) to mp3 32 - 320 kBit VBR = level 3 |
| Applications | |
| Winrar | Version 3.42
283 MB, 246 Files Compression = Best Dictionary = 4096 kB |
| Sysmark 2004 | Patch 2
1024x768 - 32 bit |
| Synthetic | |
| PCMark 2004 Pro | Version: 1.2.0
CPU and Memory Tests |
| SiSoftware Sandra 2004 | Version 2004.10.9.89
CPU Test = MultiMedia / CPU Arithmetic Memory Test = Bandwidth Benchmark |
Those interested in reading the details regarding installation and operation of our benchmarks, will find them documented in the article "Complete Run-Through: How THG Tests Motherboards"
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