----------------------------------- BenLi Mon Dec 25, 2006 9:43 pm new laptop ----------------------------------- Core 2 duo t7200 at 2 ghz 2gb ram ati radeon x1400 256 mb x2 HD 120 gb 5600 rpm what do you think? Any obvious bottlenecks? ----------------------------------- BenLi Mon Dec 25, 2006 9:53 pm ----------------------------------- apologies for double posting: ran some math benchmarks, it did better than expected ----------------------------------- Tony Mon Dec 25, 2006 10:05 pm ----------------------------------- Harddrive is always the bottleneck, especially those slower ones. Personally I would have tried to go for a smaller capacity, but faster access.. but then again I find that laptop manufactorers always compromise on one of the components in order to have some top-of-the-line stats, and yet fit into the desired price range. ----------------------------------- BenLi Mon Dec 25, 2006 10:49 pm ----------------------------------- well i had concerns about battery power. would a 7200 really drained it that uch more? ----------------------------------- Craige Mon Dec 25, 2006 11:22 pm ----------------------------------- well i had concerns about battery power. would a 7200 really drained it that uch more? It could, but then it could not. If you go for a smaller hard drive, and keep it optimized, then you may be okay for battery power. You should do a disk optimize every couple days if you want to keep you laptop hard drive at it's optimal seek speed (thus it finds your data faster, and can stop processing sooner, saving battery power). I recommend Norton Speed Disk. Also, 7200 rpm in a laptop is going to heat up more. Make sure your chassis has proper ventilation to support it. You don't want your hard drive to over heat. ----------------------------------- BenLi Tue Dec 26, 2006 12:54 pm ----------------------------------- sensors said the temp hovers around 50 degrees Celsius. Is this normal? ----------------------------------- rdrake Tue Dec 26, 2006 10:19 pm ----------------------------------- sensors said the temp hovers around 50 degrees Celsius. Is this normal?My temperatures read as follows; HD0, 39C, Temp1, 55C, Temp2, 60C. I'd say it's fairly normal. ----------------------------------- Andy Wed Dec 27, 2006 7:34 pm ----------------------------------- what does ati radeon x1400 256 mb x2 mean? x1400 cant run crossfire, heck, actually laptops cant even run crossfire. the videocard is clearly the bottleneck. anything below x1600 is outdated ----------------------------------- BenLi Thu Dec 28, 2006 11:01 am ----------------------------------- when i went to system components. The ati card was listed twice. I didn't think it was crossfire. But that reminded me, what does it mean. Everest listed the card twice in the system overview ----------------------------------- md Thu Dec 28, 2006 11:28 am ----------------------------------- HDs don't differ too much in how much power they use. a 7200 rpm uses slightly more then a 5400 rpm drive, and a larger drive *might* use a very small amount more then a smaller drive (it probably won't). The difference in power usage is very small however, and really only applies to spinning up the HD. Keeping it spinning requires very little energy, so though a 7200 rpm drive will require more power then a 5400 rpm drive the difference is quite small. ----------------------------------- TheFerret Thu Dec 28, 2006 1:43 pm ----------------------------------- when i went to system components. The ati card was listed twice. I didn't think it was crossfire. But that reminded me, what does it mean. Everest listed the card twice in the system overview Basically what Everest is saying is that your computer has two outputs from that graphic card and not that you have two different graphic cards... In your case, one output is the LCD and the other other output is a RGB port on the side of your computer... I have the same thing on my laptop and on my desktop but on the desktop, it has a DVI out and a RGB out... ----------------------------------- Andy Fri Dec 29, 2006 4:03 pm ----------------------------------- wtf is RGB? VGA maybe? most laptops come with 3 outputs. LCD, VGA, and S-Video ----------------------------------- [Gandalf] Fri Dec 29, 2006 4:55 pm ----------------------------------- wtf is RGB? VGA maybe? A VGA connector as it is commonly known (other names include RGB connector, D-sub 15, mini sub D15 and mini D15) is a three-row 15 pin DE-15. ----------------------------------- bugzpodder Fri Dec 29, 2006 7:38 pm ----------------------------------- laptops today has ~600 fsb which is a bottleneck. newer chipsets due next year will support 1024 fsb like current standard desktop systems ----------------------------------- Andy Fri Dec 29, 2006 11:05 pm ----------------------------------- "]wtf is RGB? VGA maybe? A VGA connector as it is commonly known (other names include RGB connector, D-sub 15, mini sub D15 and mini D15) is a three-row 15 pin DE-15. interestingly, that piece of information wasnt added to wikipedia until a week ago. before my question of course, but interesting none the less