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    Battery life on zv5000z Athlon 64: results

    Discussion in 'HP' started by brianstretch, Jul 31, 2004.

  1. brianstretch

    brianstretch Notebook Virtuoso

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    I just tested out battery life while running my Athlon 64 3200+ at 1GHz @ 0.85V. I was able to watch the ENTIRE Stargate SG-1 Season 3, Volume 4 DVD (176 minutes of video) while on battery, including a few breaks. Total battery time was just over 3 hours, closer to 3:10. I used ClockGen to set the CPU speed and voltage. I have the 12-cell battery of course. The current CG stepping Athlon 64's, which use 1GHz @ 0.95V as their slowest PowerNOW! mode, should do almost as well without resorting to ClockGen. I have the older C0 stepping.

    Who needs a steenkin' Pentium-M [ :p] [ :D].
     
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    Could you confirm that you used the version for the zv5000z was the CG-NVNF3?

    All mainboards based on one of these chipsets :
    nVidia nForce3-150
    Vidia nForce3-250

    Thanks
     
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    Yup, that's the one.
     
    brianstretch, Aug 1, 2004
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