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    Any Wind owners able to run benchmarks?

    Discussion in 'MSI' started by Phil, Jul 17, 2008.

  1. Phil

    Phil Retired

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    Ok the guys from NBR have done a review with the Wind in XP here , and one in Vista here.

    Surprisingly the Wind in Vista scores better in every benchmark and batterylife than in XP. According to Kevin who did the review it also feels faster.

    I was wondering, is this really true or is there something else going on? Maybe something with drivers i thought. Is anyone able to run these benchmarks and double check? Maybe run some other benchmarks like PCMark05 (free).

    Edit: The reason for the lower performance may be here:
    "the Wind's CPU is constantly toggling between 800MHz and 1.6GHz. While that may help battery life, it did not help the Wind when multitasking. "
    http://reviews.cnet.com/laptops/msi-wind-u100-035la/4505-3121_7-33154363.html?tag=prod.txt.2

    RM Clock could solve this.
     
  2. gino_lee

    gino_lee Notebook Evangelist

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    RM Clock..i wonder how much u could undervolt the CPU!
     
  3. dietcokefiend

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    During the testing I frequently brought up CPUz playing with various tools trying to overclock the system and watch the processor speed. In both Vista and XP, the processor was bouncing back and forth between 800 and 1600 in its dynamic speedstep mode.

    The thing is though, whenever there was a hint of load it would lock at 1600. So during any benchmark it would never bounce back and forth.