CPU working at optimum? How to check?

Okay, so people may call me a hypochondriac for my laptop. Every little problem, i usually get paranoid that somethings wrong.

I often put my mind at ease by doing a benchmark or something, but i always find my laptop is never as powerful in comparison as people with the same model (see sig)

Is there a thing that can test if my T7800 2.6GHz C2D is working perfectly? As in, a site that tells me how that processor should benchmark for a specific program? Something free and reliable?

I am always surprised how someone with a 2.2GHz T7 series cpu can have an equal or better benchmark than me (in like, PCmark05)... As far as i know CPUs dont have regular driver updates like GFX cards (therefore no reason for me to have worse performance).

 

Download wPrime

You should be getting a 32m test result of 32-33seconds.

Make sure your Vista power profile is not set to Power saver

 

thanks, Does this raise your temps? I heard some CPU benchmarks can do that significantly, while they never go that high normally.

 

Heat generation of a CPU is proportional to the speed and load. A CPU benchmark will push the CPU to its limits, therefore it will generate the maximum heat output while benchmarking; but so will any other program requiring 100% CPU usage at full speed. There is not much of a difference between running a CPU benchmark and running a high CPU intensive program like video encoding or 3D rendering app.

I wouldn't worry about it; your notebook is designed to handle it. Besides wPrime wont take that long.

 

Ok so i got 31.736 seconds (2564.5 MHz Merom G0) as a result.

You said 32-33 so it must be running fine?

 

What is a CPU revision? It says G0, does that mean i need to update something?

 

That seems fine to me.

CPU revision AKA stepping is the hardware version of your CPU. If intel finds improvements or bugs of a certain CPU, then they will make the corrections to the next batch, these batches are identified by a step. You cannot do anything about that.

Read more about it here.

 

Yes 32sec is fine.

When a CPU is newly released, it isnt exactly perfect, it still has minor flaws which is corrected by manufacturing a new revision of that chip.

Think of it as a better version of the chip. So the higher the letter/number the better since it will have less flaws.

G0 should have been the final revision for that chip.

This is all hardware, so theres no way to update the revision.