pcmark05 score for T61

I have a T61 T7300 2.0ghz, 1gb, 60gb 7200rpm, integrated graphics x3100 with windows xp pro. When I run a PCmark05 benchmark i get a score of 3120. I find it odd that my benchmark scores substantially lower than other scores online and on the notebookreview review which is usually on the low 4000 score. I did a semi-clean install with Thinkpad Base Administrator and cleaned out some junk. I have also changed the power scheme to adaptive. Anyone know why?

 

I would guess the biggest problem is only 1GB of RAM. I haven't seen any PCmark05 scores with only 1GB of RAM. Go to the RAM Deals thread and find yourself a good deal.

 

Hmm didn't realize Ram can bottleneck the score so much that it's 1000 points less on the pcmark05 score.

 

My lowly R61i got 3102 on PCMark05

Not too bad I guess.

Dave

 

The R61 isn't so lowly. What are your specs? It sounds like they are about the same as joey4321's laptop.

 

Hi stallen. It's a Circuit City R61i - Intel T5250 processor (1.5GHz), 2MB RAM, Hitachi 160GB/5400rpm HDD, Intel 965 Express video adapter, HL-DT-ST DVD-RAM drive.

Not bad for $850 I guess. Movies play a bit rough on it, but I figure I'd pay at least $1600 for the custom T61 I *really* wanted, but probably can't justify...

...or can I? 8>)

Dave

 

well i should have just bought a R61 in hindsight since i thought the improvement between the two machines would be larger. But I haven't been in the laptop market since the good ol days of the T43 and the old R's. the two series have become almost identical and i honestly think the R's are best bang for the buck. I'll pop in a new RAM over the weekend and see the changes hopeufully

 

Something must be wrong with yours because I was able to get 4620 with 1GB of RAM. I doubt 200MHZ and discrete graphics would give around 33% in performance.

 

I just tried PCMark05 on my R61i again, following a two day Vista-tweaking binge. The second test gave a score of 3349 (previously 3102).

The 'Windows Experience Index' shows that the bottleneck is my graphics chip (score of 3.5). The processor (4.6), RAM (4.5), and HDD (4.8) are clearly much more capable. According to MS, anyway. 8>)

Joey, I'd guess you should try some more tests, and maybe a bit of tweaking (as well as adding RAM) - your score ought to get better. If not... would you wanna trade? ;>)

Dave

 

Ok I did some tweaking removing services and whatnot. and I got a score of 3437. See any problems with this? Is it the ram, not sure anymore since DanielL said he has almost the same setup as me).

XP starup 6.621 MB/s
Physics 62.415fps Transparent Windows 105windows/s
3d pixel shader 22.149fps web page - 2.99 pages/s
file decrpt 59.116MB/s Graphics memory 64lines: 451.fps
HDD General usage 4.429 MB/s Audio comp: 1976KB/s Video Encoding 375KB/s
Text edit 141 pages/s Image decompression 28.125 Mpixels/s
File compression 4.829 MB/s File Encryption 26.33 MB/s HDD Virus Scan 34.29 MB/s Memory Latency Random 16MB - 8.011 MAccess/s

 

My score could definitely be affected by several factors: Windows XP, 2.2GHZ processor, Quadro FX 570M, and 7K200 hard drive. Your score doesn't seem so bad now.

 

yea now that i think about it, your dedicated video card is probably the major cause for the difference of the two scores. Oh well I'm just going to drop the issue, since it feels fine and I don't do super intensive things daily.