ASPIRE 5920 Tread(Benchmark Results,HW & Software Issues,Q & A,Modifications)

OK Finally I decide to start this tread to Talk about Aspire 5920.I saw some guys starting treads to publish every benchmarks they done.That's bit annoying and sometimes bit confusing with results.

So Now you can post all of your benchmark results ,Hardware & Software Issues,Modification informations you've do to your 5920 or Questions & Answers.

Please Note-
I Use Forceware 158.45 Modded Driver For Tests.

#With Stock 101.19 Driver I Got 3187 3DMarks.

#Vista Experince index Results with Stock Nvidia Driver

#AERO Performance Mark -4.7
#Vista Experience index Gaming & Business3D Mark-5.1

All Other Vista Experience Results are Same as below pictures

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3DMark06 Stock Speed Result



3DMark06 Overclock Result




GeForce 8600M GT Idle Temp



GeForce 8600M GT Load Temp(3DMark06 SM 3.0 test 01 repeat 8 Times)



Super PI-1M With CPU-Z CPU Details



Super PI-2M With CPU-Z MainBoard Details



HD Tune 2.53



ORTHOS Priority 9 Temp Test(To Get Max CPU Temp.Ambient temp 30C)
MAX CPU Temp 86C (Picture Taken Time Temp is Bit Low)




Vista 32Bit Experience Index

 

We have identical notebooks, only difference is, mine is still all stock settings. Im wondering why installing updated Nvidia drivers, has caused you overall Windows exprience index to fall to 4.6, whilst mine is 4.7.


Additionally, my stock drivers are 7.15.11.119
Different to yours?

Otherwise your other tests such as SuperPI are identical.

 

7.15.11.119 Mean 101.19 Driver

My gaming Index and HDD transfer rate index is higher than yours.....

Stock Nvidia Driver 3DMark06 result is 3187Marks
Sorry I don't have picture to Publish.Wait For the PCMark Results and HDD Problem Picture(Write cache not allowed)

 

Hi to everyone. Do you know how i can activate the Intel Turbo Memory?

 

If you have it surely it should already be enabled?
In the start menu there should be an item called Intel Turbo Memory Console. If its not enabled, I think you can aactivate it there.

As for checking that its working, I've no idea if it actually is. However, I hardly ever hear my hard dive spin, else its extremely quiet.

 

"How Do I verify its working?"
http://www.intel.com/support/chipsets/itm/sb/CS-026012.htm

Perhaps your drivers are not installed. I've no idea what will happen but why not try installing the turbo memory drivers? Surely if you do not have the turbo memory module, the software will not install... http://www.intel.com/support/chipsets/itm/

 

Goto Device Manager-Disk Drives-(You can see it under the disk Drive section if its available)

 

Anyone who has accessed the inside of the notebook??

Does it have any protection in order to lose warranty if you open it??

Mine arrives tomorrow and I 'm seriously thinking applying new thermal paste in order to get better temps..

 

Hrrmmm, my 5920 is rated at 4.5, but my 3D mark 06' was over 4,000.






Interesting, very.


No mods to drivers or hardware.

 

Hrmmm, just did 3DMark 06' again and got 2889. Must of been on drugs or something, but now that seems way low. Don't know what's up here. It seems to think I have some ghetto generic video card though.

 

Here are the scores from my USA 5920G Best Buy model with 1.5ghz processor.... Are these scores good for only having the 1.5ghz, instead of having the UK 2.0ghz processor.

All test were run with stock drivers, and no overclocking.

3DMark06 score 3074.

3DMark05 score 5162.

3DMark03 score 8323.

3DMark2001se score 15,895.


I also started this 5920G 1.5ghz to 2.4ghz upgrade thread;

http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=139245

 

how are you liking that noetbook? is it fast enough for you. does it play games pretty decent? sorry im thinking about getting one and i havent been able to find someone with us version yet.

 

The 1.5ghz model will play everything out there today...

But especially the older games (and there are a ton of them) with everything maxed out, as you can see by my 3DMark2001se score of 15,895 (and thats useing the stock driver, and no overclocking).

At first... I was weary about the 1.5ghz core 2 duo speed... Until i heard it equals an older P4 of 2.4ghz-3.0ghz in speed... The core 2 duo is a great processor at any speed... Although... I still will stuff in a 2.4ghz core 2 duo when i have the extra $$$... Just to say i have it!!!

Buy it and don't look back... It's the best bang for the $$$$!!

 

Yes If you remove your warranty protection lable(You can bend it bit.I already remove my hdd.) you will lose your warranty.
Anyway why are you applying thermal paste again.I'm from sri lanka and my ambient temperature is always 30c ,but this baby never hit 90c when i run ORTHOS for test its heat .

My advice is wait till your warranty period(Just 1 year)

Are you sure you run 3Dmark06 test with default program setting

Yes this lappy handle STALKER superbly (1280 x 720 With high setting + Medium HDR level & Anisotropic filtering , but no Antiallising )

Picture Quality is V-Good

 

3d mark 2005 @ stock clocks




3d mark @ 675/500 MHz





3d mark 2006 @ stock clocks




3d mark 2006 @ 675/500 MHz

 

hey ReaperX...

Nice scores..

BTW.. Where did you get those four widgets meters (where are they located, on 5920, or a download?)... They look good.

 

Which OC tool you are use????????

And Driver Version???????????

 

Thanks man!!

Well the widgets are from microsoft.

Their names are: iStat battery,Multi Meter,Network Meter and Sphere Timer.



@bigspin

I use Atitool.
The scores were with default drivers..

 

I use Riva 2.02 that sucks.When i try to reach 630/500 3Dmark06 fail and show device fail msg.Can you explain what you do with ATI Tool.Coz I'm new to it ,but I have it

Oh other thing Driver Version 162.22 cnt OC from Riva or ATI Tool

 

Well bispin sth very important about the card.It has steps like the 8800.

For example when you set 630 it clocks at 675.Try using the riva tuner monitoring to see exactly the speed.

And yeah there are some drivers that don't allow you to oc...

 

Changed to 165.01 drivers...


3d mark 2005 @675/500 MHz




3d mark 2006 @675/500 MHz

 

hey ReaperX.. Congradulations!!

On being the first to hit over 4,000 in 3DMark06 with a 5920G!!

 

Ahaaaaaaaaaaaa.....I got what you say.It mean you set 630Mhz by application (Riva or ATI Tool),But your Riva Monitor show 675mhz instead of actual set value.

Mine show the same results as you.When I set GPU 630Mhz,Riva monitor show 675Mhz(+-1Mhz).

 

When I reach 630Mhz(Riva 675Mhz) & Memory 500Mhz I can see some visual artifacts with ATI Tool test Utility(V-small ones)

 

How much hotter does the card get with overclock speeds at 3900+?

The difference seems enormous, but how much performance does an overclock from stock driver scores to overclocked scores affect performance?

 

It's about 8C hotter..

Well the first scores are with the drivers that the laptop came,because some others I tried couldn't let me overclock,and they are veeeery old.


But then found 165.01 that let you overclock.The scores with default clocks will also be higher but didn't have time to bench...

I will try later to add these too...

 

Does this 8600GT use DDR2 or DDR3?

The Asus C90S guys got their panties in a bunch cause the 512MB MMXII 8600GT uses DDR2. With a 2.4ghz CPU they get under 3000 3dmark06

 

Aspire 5920 use DDR2,Nvidia driver information window show it correctly
With stock 101.19 Driver i got 3187 marks(3Dmark06)

BTW Riva Tuner show it as a DDR3(Its Bug i think)

 

>The Asus C90S guys got their panties in a bunch cause the 512MB MMXII 8600GT uses DDR2. With a 2.4ghz CPU they get under 3000 3dmark06

I'm pretty sure the 512MB 8600m GT doesn't have the turbo-cache that our 256MB has.. I wouldn't dout that the 3DMark06 pushes the envelope in every way... and that our 8600m GT is activating the turbo cache up to the 1.00MB.

Just a thought.... As 3Dmark06 is a very intensive benchmark.

 

No doesn't have to do with vga memory..

It's intensive but needs gpu power more than vram.256mb is enough for running at default settings.

Just to make sure I ran it and monitored max vram utilization with riva tuner..


Return To Proxycon ---> 215mb
Firefly Forest ---> 236mb
Red Valley 1 ---> 55mb
Red Valley 2 ---> 55mb
Canyon Flight ---> 242mb
Deep Freeze ---> 247mb

 

don't want to hijack your thread, but since it's popular with owners of 5920G I figure I might get an answer here. Can you guys launch Media Center and tell me if you see TV options there (you don't need tuner for that)

 

>Just to make sure I ran it and monitored max vram utilization with riva tuner..

That's cool.. video ram can be monitored with riva tunner.

 

Just launch the hardware monitorind,then select setup.

There you can find and enabale plug ins for temps,vram,system ram,pagefile,cpu utilization,gpu core,shaders,ram clocks etc...

Then you can select them and through the setup button show them in OSD..

 

>Just launch the hardware monitorind,then select setup.

Is this within the 5920... or within Riva Tuner?

 

Riva tuner.

But from what I saw it doesn't take any values for Vram usage...Maybe it's not supported with this vga,or maybe the drivers I'm using don't support it..

(the utilization above was monitored at my desktop pc)

 

>Riva tuner.

ok, Thanks.

 

anyone can help me out - how to disable Intel speedstepping for processor? I can't run old games becase of it properly?

 

Hmm I don't think you can...

There is no option in BIOS...

 

It does have turbo-cache. Probably a driver bug or similar as 512MB version should be faster. Will see as there is (or should already be) 5920G available with 512MB DDR2 (in germany at present)

EDIT: for some reason this answer was published a little late. Sorry for that. :/

 

Cnt see....Maybe you need to plug TV tuner

 

Has anyone found a way to control the fan's speed??

 

Still No

BTW Aspire 5920 Fan is really quite No need to control it

 

Oh,too bad..

Yeah I don't have any problem with the noise.
I just want to increase speed in order to get lower temps.

 

Me too....

 

hey, I've been OCin' my graphics and I get much higher temps on the chip than reported here by some users on the extreme MHzs. Are you just competing in 3DMark scores or really boosting performance??!
So far I slowly rised my core upto 529MHz and memory to 445MHz (a bit more than 10% increase) and my temps get upto 90-91degrees in prolonged use (56deg on idle, 82 on standart clocks for my temp sesnsor) This setting gives 3601 in 3DMark06 and looks like can be used all the time.

 

A while before I was playing FEAR and vga temps didn't exceed 80C when in CoH it exceeded 90C...

Yeah,it boosts a lot the performance...

 

I bought Half-Life 2 today to play on the 5920G with Acer OEM drivers.

Enabling AA in HL2 video options immediuately causes graphic glitches so I had to turn it off.

Without AA enabled the game playes well but once in a while the graphics get corrupted on the screen. The game does not crash but graphics go bad and can't see anything millions of triangles and texture corruptions.

Work around is to ALT-TAB out of game I see GPU temp on desktop is 82C
then I go back into the game and all is well and just continue.

Not perfect but better than Doom3 which crashed hard. So now I'm 2 for 2.
Both games with issues with the 5920G, Vista.

 

Well after some testing,I found that the vga at about 96C slows down to 2d clocks,in order to prevent damage.

Cpu temperature warning is at 80C and shutdown at 95C.

 

CPU high temp 80-88C is OK (Normaly Lappys hit that high when using proccessor sensitive apps).
I test using Orthos Priority9 12min & never hit 87C
When CPU hit 90C it will start Throttling