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    Wprime scores for quad and upcoming i7's! Please post:)

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by King of Interns, Oct 28, 2009.

  1. King of Interns

    King of Interns Simply a laptop enthusiast

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    I'll start with my best score for my Asus C90P laptop; Q9650 @3.33ghz

    32M - 12.03secs :D
    [​IMG]

    Would love to see some others, especially from the core 2 quads and upcoming I7s!
     
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    32M- for T9400 its about 30-35s.
     
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    Nice score with that Q9200 there!
     
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    Nice! Almost 3.5 secs faster than my little Q9650 :p Pretty crushing score considering even the 920XM I think scores about 11secs!
     
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    I get 9 seconds stock, while running itunes and mozilla, if that helps..
     
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    Is your i7 in your lappie? ;) Is that stock 2.66ghz score.
     
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    Yes it is.
     
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    Interesting! So the 965 at 3.2ghz is barely quicker than the 920. Suprised at how small the gap is!
     
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    It's killing me I can't find it, but there was a discussion about the Q9xx vs i7 in the Sager forum with JWnFL, and we had someone post an 820QM @ 32M and I thought it was ~12.5 seconds as well.. The search is driving me batty, but when I eventually find it I'll post it.
     
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    Indeed. Clock speed is hardly a factor with the new architecture, of course this is with highly multi-threaded apps, and Turbo-Boost makes up for the single and dual core stuff. Truly very ingenious engineering.
     
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    Lol so basically you are throwing money away getting anything "better" than the 920 for now hehe looks like you made the correct choice there :)
     
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    Core i7-975 Extreme Edition
    @3.33GHz
    Vista x64 SP2 (All OS default settings)

    [​IMG]

    do not just compare the 32M score, look at the 1024M as well.

    from my review of the system. ;)

    Let me find the pic of wPrime score... with the OC to around 4.00GHz with the Core i7.
     
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    For benchmark bragging rights, obviously the 965 is the way to go, but since I could hardly give a crap about benchmarks, and not to mention the ridiculous price, I saw no reason to go that route. I can OC to 3Ghz comfortably, but I am a temp nazi, so stock is just fine.

    Haha must be nice to get to 4Ghz, I was considering water cooling, out of my budget though. 600mhz doesnt really make a significant difference, hence the 1.5 seconds; just not justifiable imo.

    All in all I feel the "bottom barrel" (if you could call it that) i7 is more than adequate for everything, and stepping up to the next model doesnt justify the price hike.
     
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    Wow that is very quick indeed! I wonder if 64bit will give better score than 32bit?
     
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    that is Vista x64... meaning 64-bit.
     
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    yeah not disputing that was just wondering to myself whether if upgrading from 32bit xp to 64bit 7 the score would be quicker?
     
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    It is demonstrated from Gophn's review of the D900F that that is the case (at least with Vista), especially when taken to values larger than 32M.

    Go do it! :D