Acer Ferrari 3200 benchmark results

I've done some comprehensive benchmarking of this beauty.

Setup:

Laptop: Acer Ferrari 3200
CPU: AMD low-power Mobile Athlon 64 2800+ (1.8GHz, 512KB L2 cache) @ 206 HTT
RAM: 1GB DDR400 (2x Corsair XMS3200 (2.5-3-3-6) 512MB SO-DIMMs)
GFX: ATI Mobility Radeon 9700 (128MB, AGP8X, FW/SB=On) @ 485/250
HDD: Hitachi Travelstar 7K60 60GB 7200RPM (8MB cache)
OS: MS Windows XP Professional SP1 (NTFS), Omega Drivers 2.5.58

P.S. The system has been tweaked for optimal performance.

Benchmark results:


HD Tach 3.0.1.0:
Burst speed: 96.6 MB/s
Random access: 14.8 ms
CPU utilization: 2 %
Average read: 31.0 MB/s

PCMark04 (Build 120):
3591

SiSoft Sandra 2004 SP2:
CPU Arithmetic: Dhrystone ALU 8530 MIPS, Whetstone FPU/iSSE2 2932/3795 MFLOPS
CPU Multi-Media: Integer 17709 it/s, Floating-Point 19057 it/s
RAM Bandwidth: Int 3148 MB/s, Float 3148 MB/s

ScienceMark 2.0:
Memory: 3038.41 MB/s bandwidth, 50.08 ns latency (512 byte stride)
Molecular Dynamics: 102.24720 s
Primordia: 453.25246 s
Cipher: 14.43664 s, 105.69 MB/s
Blas (SGEMM): 5304.97 peak MFLOPS, 2.86 FLOPS/cycle

Super PI 1.1:
1M: 48 s

Prime95 23.8.1:
Benchmark (Timing 11 iterations at 2048K FFT length): 152.084 ms

RealStorm Benchmark 2004:
2411 RayMarks (16.35 avg. fps, 7.42 min. fps, 31.7 max. fps)

KribiBench 1.1:
Jetshadow (realistic): 5.0356 fps

Pov-Ray 3.6:
Chess2.pov: 85.03 s

AquaMark3 1.0:
29911 (3657/8442 GFX/CPU)

3DMark2001 Second Edition (Build 330):
12916

3DMark03 (Build 340):
3637 (618 CPU score)

3DMark05 1.1.0:
1482 (2876 CPU score)

Unreal Tournament 2004:
1024x768 110.42 fps botmatch (dm-rankin: 136.26 fps, as-convoy: 77.71 fps, br-colossus: 117.29 fps)

Doom3:
640x480 54.0 fps Timedemo1 medium quality

Conclusion:

This is by far the fastest slim & light laptop system that money can buy today, period! [ ]

Acer Ferrari 3200 AMD Low-Power Mobile Athlon 64 2800+ ATI Mobility Radeon 9700 128MB Corsair XMS3200LL 1GB Hitachi 7K60 7200RPM 60GB

Check out my Acer Ferrari 3200/3400 quick reference guide for all that you need to know.

"The only genuinely objective benchmark is the one left on a person's trousers when they sit on a bench that has just been painted." - HPC Wire

 

I dont know much about benchmarks, but I know that SuperPi figure is good.

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I've now also done some comprehensive benchmarking of the battery life of this beauty.

Setup:

Laptop: Acer Ferrari 3200
CPU: AMD low-power Mobile Athlon 64 2800+ (1.8GHz, 512KB L2 cache)
RAM: 1GB DDR400 (2x Corsair XMS3200 (2.5-3-3-6) 512MB SO-DIMMs)
GFX: ATI Mobility Radeon 9700 (128MB, AGP8X, FW/SB=On)
HDD: Hitachi Travelstar 7K60 60GB 7200RPM (8MB cache)
O/S: MS Windows XP Professional SP1 (NTFS), Omega Drivers 2.5.58

P.S. The system has been tweaked for optimal battery.

Benchmark results:

Normal use (1):
3 hours and 11 minutes

Watching DVD's (2):
2 hours and 42 minutes

Playing games (3):
2 hours and 31 minutes

Notes:

1. Web, email, instant messenger, office, image editing, music, video clips, system management, etc.

2. The Lord of the Rings (78% completed) with Windows Media Player 9 (PowerDVD 5 audio/video codecs) & DVDIdle 5.12 (caching).

3. Far Cry at 1024x768x32 resolution with default settings.

Conclusion:

The maximum battery capacity is 66778 mWh, and with proper conditioning I got a maximum battery life of 3 hours and 26 minutes with light work and no internet/music. The difference between battery life of the stock Acer Ferrari 3200 and mine only accounts for +/- 5 minutes. All in all, I think that this laptop system indeed has a pretty decent battery life by any means [ ]

 

Great Review snorre,

Ok, heres a question for you:

can the cpu be upgraded? in light of the fact that an Mobile AMD 64 3400 is now on the market (wholesalers).

Thanks in advance.

Kans.

 

<blockquote id='quote'> quote:<hr height='1' noshade id='quote'>Originally posted by Kansuke
can the cpu be upgraded? in light of the fact that an Mobile AMD 64 3400 is now on the market (wholesalers).<hr height='1' noshade id='quote'></font id='quote'></blockquote id='quote'>
Yes, but since it uses a low-power Mobile Athlon 64 processor (35W) I don't think its a good idea to upgrade with a regular Mobile Athlon 64 processor (62W) because of heat issues. According to the service manual its already ready for the low-power Mobile Athlon 64 3000+ coming this fall.

 

Thanks snorre,

I thought they just released the mobile 3400 low power chip (amd site)?

Another question[ ]

I noticed yesterday that ATI have released the mobile 9800 gfx chip, I assume we should be able to upgrade (flexfit?) provided we could get hold of one in the future?.

Thanks again fella.

Kans.

 

<blockquote id='quote'> quote:<hr height='1' noshade id='quote'>Originally posted by Kansuke

I thought they just released the mobile 3400 low power chip (amd site)?<hr height='1' noshade id='quote'></font id='quote'></blockquote id='quote'>
No, currently only 2700+ & 2800+ are low-power chips:
http://www.amd.com/us-en/Processors/ProductInformation/0,,30_118_10220_10221%5E11030,00.html

Faster low-power chips are coming later:
http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/mobile/display/20040611102838.html

<blockquote id='quote'>quote:<hr height='1' noshade id='quote'>Originally posted by Kansuke

I noticed yesterday that ATI have released the mobile 9800 gfx chip, I assume we should be able to upgrade (flexfit?) provided we could get hold of one in the future?.<hr height='1' noshade id='quote'></font id='quote'></blockquote id='quote'>
I doubt that will happen for this thin and light notebook:

http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1558,1627786,00.asp
<blockquote id='quote'>quote:<hr height='1' noshade id='quote'>This new mobile GPU moves mobile gaming forward by a sizeable leap, but also won't likely adorn many low-end or light laptops. Instead, look for it in the big, heavy-chassis gaming monsters from Dell, Alienware, and VoodooPC.
[...]
For the Mobility Radeon 9800, ATI is able to clock it up to 350MHz, which is well below its desktop counterpart which checks in at 520MHz. Low-k dielectric does help ATI boost clock here and stay within thermal envelope constraints, however, an eight-pipe part still draws too much power and produces too much heat for a laptop GPU to push very high clock speeds.<hr height='1' noshade id='quote'></font id='quote'></blockquote id='quote'>
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=17463
<blockquote id='quote'>quote:<hr height='1' noshade id='quote'>Imagine a laptop chip that can not actually fit in all notebooks, just in thick ones, but with almost double performance then before.
[...]
It's for "desknote" as the card is almost half the size of Radeon X800 generation of cards. You definitely cannot plug this into any thin and light or medium size notebook.<hr height='1' noshade id='quote'></font id='quote'></blockquote id='quote'>

 

Thx snorre!

 

Snorre - Any specific reason you don't use PowerDVD?

 

<blockquote id='quote'> quote:<hr height='1' noshade id='quote'>Originally posted by Tron
Snorre - Any specific reason you don't use PowerDVD?
<hr height='1' noshade id='quote'></font id='quote'></blockquote id='quote'>
Yes, because PowerDVD dosen't work properly with the current version of DVDIdle. Still, I use the PowerDVD video/audio codecs with Windows Media Player that works fine with DVDIdle.

 

I did a pc pit stop test on this system. The results can be found at www.ferrari3200.com . Here's the direct link to the page http://p078.ezboard.com/fferrari3200forumfrm8.showMessage?topicID=2.topic .

 

Snorre:

Those are very nice numbers!!! Got one coming in the mail, a few questions...

How did you o/c the processor? BIOS?
Are those the oem settings on the 9700, or did you bump the frequency up? If so, how? =)
Stock it comes with DDR333, is the chipset on the mobo set up to use the DDR400?

Thanks!

 

<blockquote id='quote'> quote:<hr height='1' noshade id='quote'>How did you o/c the processor? BIOS?<hr height='1' noshade id='quote'></font id='quote'></blockquote id='quote'>
I overclocked the CPU with ClockGen (CG-ICS950405) that you can download from here:
www.cpuid.org/clockgen.php

<blockquote id='quote'>quote:<hr height='1' noshade id='quote'>Are those the oem settings on the 9700, or did you bump the frequency up? If so, how? =)<hr height='1' noshade id='quote'></font id='quote'></blockquote id='quote'>
I overclocked the GPU with PowerStrip that you can download from here:
entechtaiwan.net/util/ps.shtm

<blockquote id='quote'>quote:<hr height='1' noshade id='quote'>Stock it comes with DDR333, is the chipset on the mobo set up to use the DDR400?<hr height='1' noshade id='quote'></font id='quote'></blockquote id='quote'>
Yes, DDR400 works very well indeed. Actually, you can overclock the stock DDR333 memory to run at DDR400 speeds with A64 Tweaker that you can download from here:
www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?postid=505345#post505345

You can do this by setting MEMCLK Frequency to 200 while also setting RAS to CAS Delay (Trcd) to 4 (for stability). To verify that your memory really runs at DDR400 speeds, just download and run CPU-Z.

 

"SiSoft Sandra 2004 SP2:
CPU Arithmetic: Dhrystone ALU 8530 MIPS, Whetstone FPU/iSSE2 2932/3795 MFLOPS
CPU Multi-Media: Integer 17709 it/s, Floating-Point 19057 it/s
RAM Bandwidth: Int 3148 MB/s, Float 3148 MB/s"

How much of an overclock are you running? My desktop with a 64 has to oc 20MHz to get the kind of a bandwith on Sandra. That's with the old Mushkin black level II(2-2-2-5).

 

Any idea how this would compare with the 4001wlci and the 3201 in terms of performance?

 

<blockquote id='quote'> quote:<hr height='1' noshade id='quote'>Originally posted by snorre

 

<blockquote id='quote'> quote:<hr height='1' noshade id='quote'>Originally posted by gino1221how can you Oc your HTT from 200 to 206? which program? Thanks for your reply and sorry for my english, but Im italian[]<hr height='1' noshade id='quote'></font id='quote'></blockquote id='quote'>
See point II in this guide:
http://notebookforums.com/showthread.php?p=455976#post455976

Acer Ferrari 3200 AMD Low-Power Mobile Athlon 64 2800+ ATI Mobility Radeon 9700 128MB Corsair XMS3200LL 1GB Hitachi 7K60 7200RPM 60GB

Check out my Acer Ferrari 3200/3400 quick reference guide for all that you need to know.

"The only genuinely objective benchmark is the one left on a person's trousers when they sit on a bench that has just been painted." - HPC Wire