Benchmarks differences between 1.06Ghz, 1,20 and 1,33 Ghz Vaio TZ notebooks....

Finally, i am a few days away from buying a new TZ laptop ( I have the TZ1MN, in US ..i think is called TZ130 -1,06Ghz , 1Gb Ram , 80GB HDD) .
I love it! i added another 1 Gb of Ram so things are a bit faster...however, it cannot keep up the pace anymore with my requirements ( multi-tasking, including skype and adope photoshop- the last works great) .

I was wondering if there is a good difference in performance between 1,06 and 1,33 Ghz proccessors ? I tried to find some benchmarks on the net....nothing. Or at least between 1,06Ghz and 1,20 Ghz proccessors.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thank you.

 

I don't think you would see a significant difference. You are running Vista correct? I'll bet you'll see a noticable increase in performance if you run XP instead.

The best way may be to upgrade your hard drive to a solid state drive, but they are quite expensive and limited in capacity.

You can also overclock the TZ's processor, there's a nice thread about it here.

 

I have a TZ150 with a 1.06 GHz processor. When I need the extra power, I overclock my TZ to 1.2 GHz and I do feel a difference when running applications.

 

1.06 >> 1.33 is a 25% increase and may well be noticeable when the CPU is the bottleneck, particularly single-threaded processing. I would expect that Photoshop would feel more responsive. However, the HDD may be the bottleneck in some activities and the faster CPU is kept waiting. Hence the move towards those expensive SSDs.

John

 

Overclock the TZ proccessor ? isn't that dangerous for this little fellow...?

I will get the TZ198 after all ( it has a 64GB SSD).

Thanks for the help

 

Read the TZ overclocking thread. I think everyone who tried can get some increase in speed without any adverse side effects.

John