Hmm, is my T8100 supposed to feel this slow?

I haven't gotten around to benchmarking on this notebook yet, it's a Gateway C140-XL.

But recently I did a wipe and slapped on w7-64, upgraded from 1gb to 4gb memory.

It feels kinda like there's something bottlenecking, but I haven't done any benchmarking other than running cpuid/etc.

When I view flash based sitesor heavy ads (like gamespot,etc) , or like the advertisement from the start of notebookreview, with just 2 of these then firefox (3.6) goes into crawl mode, swapping tabs don't respond, sometimes it might even semi-freeze the system.

Other than that, the only other issue I've noticed was in Autodesk - Revit 2010 x64 to be particular, it feels sluggish compared to other systems I've ran it on. Clicking a line or two takes longer than a split second to load up the details.

Cpuz screencap


HD is also 0% defragmented, running that right now just to be safe.

 

It looks like latencies might be too high meaning ur drivers may not be good... what drivers have u used? Vista ones?

When i went from vista 32 to windows 7 64bit , my system became faster... My drivers were good so i think it might be a driver problem for u.

 

When was the last time you cleaned out your air-vents or the laptop in general from dust?

 

Install RMClock and see if your processor is switching from 8X multiplier to 11x which runs the CPU at full power (2.1GHz)

I've the same processor as you do, and is not slow at all.

 

update drivers and bios and tell us what kind of hard drive you have in the machine

 

OP, might you have speedstep 'disabled'? (It shouldn't be)

 

Use IE, or another brower and see if that helps.

 

switch to google chrome

 

try speedyfox http://www.crystalidea.com/speedyfox and eboostr.

 

Win7 64bit, Firefox and flash have some issues. a Flash heavy site will bring ANY system to it's needs.

It's an Adobe and/or Firefox Issue.
It seems to only be on Flash heavy sites and where they use a certain type of Flash animation.

 

Since Flash 10.1 beta, I haven't run into this yet. Although I used to see it quite often. Try updating your video drivers to the latest revision, and give Flash 10.1 beta a go.

 

I've never seen a Core2 running a multiplier less than x6 during speedstep.
You can clearly see at the time of capture you were running at just 800mhz.
Interesting.

Is your power setting in PowerSaver... try Balanced or High. Try a Prime95 test or something, an see if your cpu picks up. You should be running up to 2.1Ghz under load

 

800mhz is normal.

The CPU is in SLFM mode, hence the multi is dropped to 8x and the FSB is halved.

But CPUz is stupid so it doesn't show 100mhz for the FSB, so to compensate it shows the multi as 1/2 of what it is.

Anyway it's normal for it to be 800mhz (8 x 100mhz FSB).

 

Thanks all,
I am assuming it was partly due to the multiplier in power saving mode, wasn't paying attention to that much during the peak loads.

As far as video card drivers go, I'm kinda SOL on that. It's a radeon 2300 HD, but the problem is that there's no drivers for this unless I revert back to vista32. Gateway's merge/bought out thing with Acer made them stop caring about their laptops I suppose.

I tried the mobilitymodder as well, didn't get good results from it. It worked, but caused strange resolution problems.

Is there any way to make the system run at 10x multiplier during AC plugged in status? I thought I had turned up all the settings in the max for the power savings, but maybe that might not be it.

 

Have you tried Ati's website for drivers?

The stock Win7 driver should be adequate, but not great.

It depends on the system I am on and seeing how often I reload Windows, who knows.

I did find my video drivers were the stock Win7 ones for my desktop (oopsie!). So maybe that will fix it.

 

Have u tried the new catalyst 10.3 ... They seem to help a lot with game performance etc....

http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=461001