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Andrew
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30th Nov 04 at 20:48   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

Help me out guys, I don't quite understand this!

I have a PC and laptop, specs are: -

PC
AMD Altlon XP 2000+
1024 RAM (DDR 400)
200GB HD (ATA 133)
ATI 9600XT 256MB Graphics Card

Laptop
AMD Athlon XP 2600+
512 RAM (DDR 266)
40GB HD (ATA 100)
32 NVIDEA Graphics Card (or something spelt like that )

Now the PC runs dead fast but the Laptop is quite slow. Both running Win XP Pro on clean HDs -- i.e. formated.
Jamie
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30th Nov 04 at 20:49   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

Ram is double on the PC and hard drive is 160GB more

Thank you come again
Joff
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30th Nov 04 at 20:50   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

You'll need to overclock the L2 cache on the FSB before your EIDE ATA's will spin at the RPM needed to SMB.
Ojc
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30th Nov 04 at 20:51   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

Joff stop talking to yourself.
Nismo
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fit an induction kit and big bore 2.
James_DT
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THe PC has faster RAM and faster Harddrive(s), and laptops are generally slower than their desktop counterparts.
Andrew
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I've run the PC with 512MB 266 RAM and an ATA 100 HD. It's gotta be the latter as the PC was still faster.

[Edited on 30-11-2004 by Peugeot Nut]
Dean_H
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30th Nov 04 at 20:57   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

Laptops are slower than pc's

Once i had a 700mhz 256ram PC
and a 1100 mhz 256 ram laptop

The pc was faster....

What do you mean by slower anyway....

The laptop should be fine with web browsing and using it for work and playing music, shit for games tho....
Joff
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30th Nov 04 at 20:58   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

quote:
Originally posted by Peugeot Nut
I've run the PC with 512MB 266 RAM and an ATA 100 HD. It's gotta be the latter as the PC was still faster.

[Edited on 30-11-2004 by Peugeot Nut]


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James_DT
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30th Nov 04 at 20:59   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

Laptops will always be slower because all the components are slower to drop the power consumption so the batteries last longer than 10minutes.
Andrew
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30th Nov 04 at 21:01   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

quote:
Originally posted by Welsh_SXi
Laptops are slower than pc's

Once i had a 700mhz 256ram PC
and a 1100 mhz 256 ram laptop

The pc was faster....

What do you mean by slower anyway....

The laptop should be fine with web browsing and using it for work and playing music, shit for games tho....


Booting, opening applications such as IE etc.
Dean_H
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30th Nov 04 at 21:02   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

quote:
Originally posted by Peugeot Nut
quote:
Originally posted by Welsh_SXi
Laptops are slower than pc's

Once i had a 700mhz 256ram PC
and a 1100 mhz 256 ram laptop

The pc was faster....

What do you mean by slower anyway....

The laptop should be fine with web browsing and using it for work and playing music, shit for games tho....


Booting, opening applications such as IE etc.


Is the power management set up correctly?
Ojc
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30th Nov 04 at 21:14   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

Are you sure the ECU has'nt gone into limp mode?
Cybermonkey
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1st Dec 04 at 01:49   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

quote:
Originally posted by Ojc
Are you sure the ECU has'nt gone into limp mode?


The only thing limp in this post is your penis.
Cybermonkey
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1st Dec 04 at 01:50   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

quote:
Originally posted by James_DT
Laptops will always be slower because all the components are slower to drop the power consumption so the batteries last longer than 10minutes.


Laptop processors are of a better quality silicon, so putting a mobile Athlon chip into a PC is a good idea. Im still looking for one to put in mine
Andrew
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1st Dec 04 at 02:07   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

Laptop runs on a higher bus speed so won't go in my desktop But saying that, i might have a go if i get bored
Bart
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1st Dec 04 at 07:28   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

tint the screen
Steve
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1st Dec 04 at 09:11   View Garage View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

the processors in laptops are totally different to that of a pc even though they run at a higher frequency there small size means the way they process the instruction sets efficiency is reduced. That coupled with half the ram. Also the graphics in laptops are generally wank onboard affairs, with low video memory so when running applications that use directx your PC will utilize the graphics card and vram to an advantage again
Cybermonkey
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quote:
Originally posted by GSiSteve
the processors in laptops are totally different to that of a pc even though they run at a higher frequency there small size means the way they process the instruction sets efficiency is reduced. That coupled with half the ram. Also the graphics in laptops are generally wank onboard affairs, with low video memory so when running applications that use directx your PC will utilize the graphics card and vram to an advantage again


Not true with the AMD M processors. Full scale jobbies with just passive cooling, but superior quality to reduce heat. Also can be overclocked very nicely. Will fit my MSI 6382 v3 MoBo quite nicely I am not sure about the latest mobile AMD ones though, i am only aware of the compatability of the T-Bred's.
TNM
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1st Dec 04 at 10:40   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

has you RAM got a virus fuck nut?

 
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