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All these numbers are too technical for me. My question is: Is it worth the money for the upgrade? Geo, out. -----Original Message----- From: Randal Whittle <rwhittle@usa.net> To: TP List <tp750@cs.utk.edu> Date: Wednesday, December 31, 1997 1:22 PM Subject: Upgraded 701C Benchmark Results > >I just sent an Excel file with all of the Winstone and Winbench Test >results to Emanuel Brown, who I'm sure will get this set up on his web page >for all to see. That also includes my own benchmarking of my P120-based >ThinkPad 560 as well as my desktop Pentium Pro 200 for your comparison. > >Please note that there are some Winstone scores that just won't show up. >For some reason, there are certain tests that my 701 just *won't* >complete--it hangs on the Netscape Navigator test and the PowerPoint 97 >test, in particular. Unfortunately, this in turn messes up some of the >overall test scores because it fails in these areas. > >Until Emanuel can set that up and you can get over to see those, I thought >I could pass along the results of some of the "simpler" tests--that of >Norton System Information (2.0--included in Norton Utils for Windows 2.0) >and Wintune 95. > >The "Stock" 701C yielded a Norton SI score of 4.0. The SI score after the >upgrade was 6.7. For comparison, a "typical" (I presume desktop) 386SX-16 >serves as the baseline at 1.0. A 486-33 (I presume desktop) is a 5.9, and >a Pentium 90 is 20.4. That gives you some idea of what Nortn SI thinks of >the upgrade. Keep in mind this is a CPU-only benchmark. > >Please note that the following is *exactly* what the benchmark reports. In >particular, the AMD 486 thing. Supposedly, this new CPU is an AMD >"Enhanced"5x86, but no, that doesn't make it a Pentium. The benchmark >apparently isn't fooled either--they see it as a 486 at 100 MHz. Basically >it appears to be a clock-quadrupled (as opposed to tripled, as is the stock >CPU in the 701) 25-MHz-based 486, plus the added advantage of AMD's >floating-point math-coprocessor being extra fast (you can see that in the >Whetstone score below). > >For Wintune 95, here's the details: > > > Upgraded 701C Stock 701C > -------------- --------------- >CPU AMD 486 Intel 486DX4 >Clock 100 MHz 75 MHz >Dhrystone 36 MIPS 25 MIPS >Whetstone 16 MFLOPS 6.9 MFLOPS >Video Speed 2.9 MP/s 2.1 MP/s >C: Cached Speed 4.4 MB/s 4.7 MB/s >C: Uncached " 1.1 MB/s 1.1 MB/s >RAM Read Avg. 84 MB/s 70 MB/s >RAM Write Avg. 28 MB/s 30 MB/s >RAM Copy Avg. 15 MB/s 13 MB/s > > >If you just *can't* wait for Mr. Brown to put up the Excel file with the >Winstone and Winbench scores on his web page, upon request I can send you >the Excel file. Just let me know in private E-mail. I am reluctant to >just send the file to the list because not everyone wants to or cares to >see it. > > >------- >Randal J. Whittle whittle@usc.edu (213) 740-7775 >Director, Electronic Commerce Program >Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California