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    Why is my Extensa 2000 slower than my Aspire 3630?

    Discussion in 'Acer' started by Nowonmai, Oct 22, 2006.

  1. Nowonmai

    Nowonmai Newbie

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    I have an Acer Extensa 2000, and an Acer Aspire 3630.

    The Extensa is a 2.8ghz, 1.5 gigs memory, 80 gig hd, and an SD-R6112 DVD RW.

    The Aspire is a 1.6 ghz, with 40gig hd,and 768 megs of ram, don't remember what DVDRW brand.

    Extensa has all the latest updated drivers, as does the Aspire, but the Aspire runs faster than my Extensa. Whatever I thought was the problem (lack of hd space, not enough ram etc etc) I fixed, but it's still running slower than the Aspire.
    Example: Using CloneDVDMobile to make avi for my PPC. It only takes 1 hour to do it with the Aspire, but after over 3 hours, only 50% completed with the Extensa.

    All benchtesting comes back as normal for CPU and SODIMM speed, as does the PCI bus speeds.
    What else can I do to speed the system up?
     
    Nowonmai, Oct 22, 2006
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  2. sionyboy

    sionyboy Notebook Evangelist

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    tried any benchmarking tools? ie, SuperPI, PCMark etc to see what results each system throws up? Maybe the Extensa needs a format
     
    sionyboy, Oct 22, 2006
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  3. applx

    applx Notebook Consultant

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    thats because Pentium M is faster than Pentium 4!!!
     
    applx, Oct 22, 2006
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  4. Nowonmai

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    I did say benchtesting was done. And new harddrive. Everything freshly installed. :)
     
    Nowonmai, Oct 22, 2006
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    I understand and know PentM is faster, but what can I do to boost performance of Extensa. I really don't think the 1.6 ghz Aspire should be over 7x faster than 2.8ghz. Also, we have an older HP Compaq 1.2 ghz laptop, and it also runs faster.

    All tests show the Extensa and it's hardware are running up to specifications.
     
    Nowonmai, Oct 22, 2006
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  6. applx

    applx Notebook Consultant

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    use older Extensa drivers and try 3dmark2001se also try to dissable HT on P4.
    what memory ur Extensa has? what speed?
     
    applx, Oct 23, 2006
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    As I originally posted the Extensa is a 2.8ghz, 1.5 gigs memory. Hyper-threading doesn't appear to be enabled in the BIOS.

    I am dling the 3dmark2001se now. I don't know about going back to older drivers, but if nothing else works, I will give that a try too. Thanks for the tips.

    Edit: I installed 3dmark, and got error message. I am running with DirectX 9 and the error says it needs DX8
     
    Nowonmai, Oct 24, 2006
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  8. applx

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    what gpu does ur Extensa has? if its an old one i would suggest going back to dx8.1 (because older gpu wont support dx9 features) also older drivers help alot and may improve system performance.
    what speed is ur Ram and HDD?
     
    applx, Oct 24, 2006
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    vitalinstinct Notebook Enthusiast

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    Speed of processor doesnt matter, my 2.8GHZ P4 desktop did that superPi thing in 5 minutes and a 1.6GHZ Laptop with Pentium M did it just under 2 minutes. Its how the core is not the speed as seen in previous AMD v Intel battles.
     
    vitalinstinct, Oct 26, 2006
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