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    Acer Travelmate 2000 / performance

    Discussion in 'Acer' started by Kyokushin, Sep 10, 2004.

  1. Kyokushin

    Kyokushin Notebook Enthusiast

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    Hello

    I bought a new Acer TravelMate 2001FXC (cel 2,6/256/Ati Radeon 9000 IGP(64 MB
    share)d) and i have some performance problems with this laptop.
    I dont know is that correct:
    On battery laptop performance is two times worse than on AC adapter
    - SiSoft Sandra 2004 CPU Arithmetic Benchmark
    On Battery: Dhrystone ALU :3625 MIPS
    WhetStone FPU/iSSE2 904/1664 MFLOPS
    On AC Adapter: Dhrystone ALU :7216 MIPS
    WhetStone FPU/iSSE2 1785/3303 MFLOPS

    - 3Dmark2001 SE:
    On Battery: 2000
    On AC Adaper: 2600

    I have try to disable some power managament function to reduce performance
    cost but I found nothing.
    I have searched in BIOS (1.10 and 1.16) and Acer add-on software.
    I working on Windows XP pro with all updates and have Acer drivers to
    graphic card (everything seems to be ok)

    Has somebody this type of laptop and could say this correct or not?
    Do you know how to disable "low performance" function?
    Do you know where I can download 1.16 BIOS (i make downgrade to 1.10 and
    forgot to make backup of 1.16)?
    Is know somebody where can I download a tachnical manual?


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    Best Regards,
    Andrew
     
    Kyokushin, Sep 10, 2004
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