I have an EeePC 1005HA. I also just received a freebie EeePC 901, which has the very same CPU - Atom N270.
So why is it that all hardinfo benchmarks show the Atom in the 901 to be considerably faster? Internet browsing is affected too, the 901 loads websites noticeably faster - as it should be, actually, while the 1005HA feels really quite slow.
Here are the hardinfo results:
Test - 901 - 1005HA
Blowfish - 15.37 - 21.64 (lower is better)
Cryptohash - 56.19 - 36.35 (higher is better)
Fibonacci - 8 - 8.15 (lower is better)
N-Queens - 17.74 - 21.22 (lower is better)
FFT - 16.73 - 30.64 (lower is better)
RayTracing - 34.76 - 66.34 (lower is better)
If the difference was minimal I'd chalk it up to manufacturing tolerances and just shrug, but some tests show the 901 with twice the performance. I don't think this is normal.
Both systems have the latest BIOS, both are running the same system (CrunchBang Statler, and I did install the EeePC ACPI scripts on both). Both show the same frequency in hardinfo, and both show the same frequency (1.60GHz) and FSB speed (533MHz) in the BIOS.
As the 1005HA is my main netbook (the 901 is too darn small for me), it's really quite important I fix this.
So why is it that all hardinfo benchmarks show the Atom in the 901 to be considerably faster? Internet browsing is affected too, the 901 loads websites noticeably faster - as it should be, actually, while the 1005HA feels really quite slow.
Here are the hardinfo results:
Test - 901 - 1005HA
Blowfish - 15.37 - 21.64 (lower is better)
Cryptohash - 56.19 - 36.35 (higher is better)
Fibonacci - 8 - 8.15 (lower is better)
N-Queens - 17.74 - 21.22 (lower is better)
FFT - 16.73 - 30.64 (lower is better)
RayTracing - 34.76 - 66.34 (lower is better)
If the difference was minimal I'd chalk it up to manufacturing tolerances and just shrug, but some tests show the 901 with twice the performance. I don't think this is normal.
Both systems have the latest BIOS, both are running the same system (CrunchBang Statler, and I did install the EeePC ACPI scripts on both). Both show the same frequency in hardinfo, and both show the same frequency (1.60GHz) and FSB speed (533MHz) in the BIOS.
As the 1005HA is my main netbook (the 901 is too darn small for me), it's really quite important I fix this.