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    xps m1530 superpi???

    Discussion in 'Dell XPS and Studio XPS' started by fullycharged, Jan 4, 2008.

  1. fullycharged

    fullycharged Notebook Guru

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    Hi, i received my new xps 1530 today and my super pi (2m) score is really bad!! i ran it multiple times and i made sure every other program was closed and the best i could get was 1min 39s for 2 million decimal places

    my notebook specs are
    -core 2 duo t7700 2.4ghz
    -4gb ddr2 ram
    -200gb 7200rpm hdd

    any ideas how i can improve this?? whats everyone else getting?
     
    fullycharged, Jan 4, 2008
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  2. scythie

    scythie I died for your sins.

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    That is kinda slow, you should be getting around 50s with that processor.

    Try these:
    1) Turn off as many background processes/programs as you can. Anti-virus, etc.
    2) Uninstall bloatware, or better yet, do a clean install of Vista. Lots of guides in the forums. The search button is your friend.
    3) Try running it while plugged in; also, check if your power management setting is on "Maximum Performance" [or something like that, as opposed to "Balanced" which would weaken performance even when plugged].

    Good luck :)
     
    scythie, Jan 4, 2008
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  3. fullycharged

    fullycharged Notebook Guru

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    Hey thanks for the quick reply, yep you were right with 3) it was so slow because it was set on "power saver mode"

    I changed it to high performance mode and i got spot on 50 seconds, surprising how much of a dog it is in power saver mode hehe

    cheers
     
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    Thanks guys... without these comments I would have never known to mess with power save mode.

    Good stuff.
     
    buzzweetman, Jan 4, 2008
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  5. scythie

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    Glad I could help :)
     
    scythie, Jan 4, 2008
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    ChevyNovaLN Notebook Consultant

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    Got any other ideas? I just got mine yesterday and have been having fun formatting/reinstalling OS, etc.. seeing what I can and can't do. right now i've got a clean install of Windows Vista Ultimate 64-bit. When I run Super_PI to 2M places, I'm getting 1 Min 28 seconds. I have the T9300 (2.5ghz 6mb Cache) CPU, 4gb RAM, 320gb drive, etc.. and have set it to performance (even manually adjusted some of the settings so CPU minimum is 100%. Is this a 64-bit issue? I never ran it while 32-bit was installed, I can reload (only takes 20 min) and try again. BTW, I have not yet loaded SP1 for vista.
     
    ChevyNovaLN, May 6, 2008
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    ChevyNovaLN Notebook Consultant

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    Sorry guys. I figured it out. In my neverending quest to never leave any default setting alone, I turned off the Intel Speedstep stuff in the bios without reading what that does. Apparently it puts the laptop into the lowest performance mode possible, I thought it meant it would not change the speed and just run at max.... but after reading it, it slows it way down and will not increase automatically. Needless to say, speed was 1.2ghz Now i'm running at 2.5ghz and the 2M on SuperPi ran in 43 seconds.

    Phewwww... my laptop is fast again! lol :D :cool:
     
    ChevyNovaLN, May 7, 2008
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  8. jyar727

    jyar727 Notebook Guru

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    hehe nice. mine does 2M in 43s too
    T9300
     
    jyar727, Jan 18, 2009
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