Measure your Notebook CPU Speed

This could be fun and informative, just download this free program to calculate pi (windows based only).
ftp://pi.super-computing.org/windows/super_pi.zip
Then run the program to measure the time it takes to calculate pi to 2 million digits. Do it both while plugged in and under battery power and post your results along with the notebook model,CPU type & speed, amount of memory and hard drive size & RPM. If we can get 20-30 results(hopefully more) to be statistically significant I'll compile and post the results here in a week or so.

I'll go 1st.
IBM R40 (2897GAU) Pentium M 1.5 Ghz, 1GB ram, 60GB 7200rpm
AC powered 2:29 battery powered (adaptive cpu) 2:30

My homebuilt desktop P4 2.4 Ghz, 1GB ram, 250GB 7200rpm
2:53

Thanks
Jack

 

i must have been running something else before because now when I took it off ac and on to battery I got 2 min 35 secs I'll run it again on the AC and see what I get there.

zx5000 :: 2.4M :: 512 DDR :: 40gb 4200 RPM HD :: 15.4" :: Radeon 9600 Mobilty M10 :: Aquamark3 22,856

 

P4-M 2.4 512Ram, 4200RPM drive 2min 42

zx5000 :: 2.4M :: 512 DDR :: 40gb 4200 RPM HD :: 15.4" :: Radeon 9600 Mobilty M10 :: Aquamark3 22,856

 

Desktop HP Pavilion 750n
1.4ghz Pentium 4
512mb ram
80gig ???rpm hard drive

4 minutes 51 seconds


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Fujitsu S6210: 1.6Ghz PM ~ 768MB RAM ~ 60GB 7200RPM Hard Drive
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IBM T41p 60GB HD @4200RPM, 512MB RAM, Pentium M 1.6GHz:

Plugged in: 2:23

Unplugged: 4:50 (? performance drops 100%, wow)

 

Sony Grt360
P4 3.06ghz
512mb ram
80gb 4200rpm

ac power - 2 min 5 sec
battery - 3 min 19 sec

 

My laptop is too old and knackeered for me to bother - it'd be hours not minutes!

However, for not windows peeps there are non windows versionds of the tests in the ftp tree.

I've forwarded this on to a few people and will post their numbers when they get back to me.

 

Here is another place to download from if the other is not working.
http://www.computerbase.de/downloads/software/benchmarks/super_pi/

Jack

 

I can't get the file, timing out I think.

Editor in Chief http://www.bargainPDA.com and http://www.SPOTstop.com

 

Hi Big Calhoun,
You might see if there is something running in the background that is slowing things down.

Jack