Ridiculously low cpu scores for my laptop!?!

[BD2003]

In sandra, I get roughly around the area of a p166. In 3dmark 2000, roughly around the area of a p2 233. wtf? Are they just bugged benchmarks? What could lead to this kind of low score. My laptop is a C650, I'd expect to get cpu scores roughly near other C650s. And sandra reports my mainboard temp is 53c, but I get no crashes or anything....wtf? Maybe its just windows xp?

 

[AndyHui]

Check your power management settings. Normally on laptops, if they are not plugged into the mains, there is usually some form of clock throttling.

There are other things holding you back on a laptop, such as much slower hard drive speeds and sub-standard video graphic chipsets.

 

[BD2003]

Right, but these are pure synthetic cpu benchmarks. I only tested the cpu speed in sandra and 3dmark. However, using a different benchmark, passmark, I actually get scores higher than a p3 600, although this may be possible using tweaking. Are these programs just silly? You certainly cant play a divx movie with a p166, and they run great on mine. But I'd hate to think my c650 is a 300ish.

Everything in bios is set to max power usage, ultra bright screen, high performance fan etc...all caches on...

 

[spamboy]

perhaps the chipset in your lappy is somehow conflicting with those particular synthetic tests, but doesn't cause any problems under normal use.

 

[Blastman]

Benchmarks like 3Dmark are dependent on the graphics chip/card you have in your computer. Celeron laptops don?t usually come with very fast graphic chips.

Try running something like the calculator benchmark that stresses only the CPU.

Go under accessories and start your calculator and put it in scientific mode. Punch in 20,000 and hit the ! (factorial button) ? that's 20,000 factorial or ?20,000 x 19,999 x 19,998 x ?.. 3 x 2 x1) and time how long it takes your calculator to return a result. The answer should be 1.819 x 10^77,337

After about 10 sec. or so a dialog box will appear suggesting that the operation may take a long time to complete. It asks you whether you want to let the calculation continue or stop it. If you just IGNORE the box and let your calculator finish- the dialog box will disappear by itself when your calculator finishes.
It?s good to leave the dialog box there because if you punch in a real large calculation, it?s the only way to stop it (other than doing a CTR-ALT-DEL). In W98, if you close that window it doesn?t reappear.

Here are some typical results you can compare to. It scales with clock rate so a 2x clock rate will be twice as fast.

486 DX66_________16MB ?? 340sec
Pentium 120_______32MB ?? 124
Pentium 200mmx____64MB ?? 62
AMD K2-350_______128MB ?? 28
AMD K@-400______128MB ?? 24.9
Celeron 333________64MB ?? 23.7
Pll 450___________128MB ?? 18.4
Cel 300a@450______64MB ?? 17.4
Plll 500___________256MB ??16.7

 

[Kazi]

i have a P3 @ 533 MHz........17.3 seconds only 64 RAM heh

 

[TunaBoo]

4.8 seconds...

T-Bird 1GHz @ 1.43 GHz

 

[BD2003]

Took roughly 10 seconds. Seems like my cpu is ok. Thanks!