Re: Post SWW2006 Blues
- From: Wayne <wlmatus@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 19 Feb 2006 15:50:22 GMT
Matt,
No real problems with it so far. The video driver is still the same,
so performance will be better in the future. Photoworks does render
fast. I only have CosmosWorks Designer on it, so I have not used it
for long nonlinear solutions. It does work well in large assembly
drawings in SolidWorks 2006 with the second core generating the
precise drawiing view entities.
SolidWorks is stable although I do get some screen flickers when I
launch it. I suspect it is the same video driver issue. I have yet to
be able to blame a SolidWorks crash on the computer. I did have the
screen go blank on me once, again I think it was the video driver
issue.
It is heavy, about 20 pounds with AC adapter. The 17" display is
wonderful.
If I had to do it again, I would pick it over the Dell M70.
Wayne
On Tue, 14 Feb 2006 15:31:33 GMT, matt <m_lombard@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Wayne,
I'm just curious how the Hypersonic is going for you? I'm looking at
getting one with the same specs.
Matt
In article <ahe9u1pi4j454ss2evj1aa2rd494m366vr@xxxxxxx>,
wlmatus@xxxxxxxxxx says...
You might be able to get another 10% - 12% out of your dual core by
applying a Microsoft hotfix to XP, reference Microsoft KB Article
896256.
I recently purchased a laptop from Hypersonic-pc. AMD64 X2 4800+ with
2GB ram and 7200 SATA HD and Nvidia Quadro FX Go1400 running XP Pro.
I ran the SPECapc benchmark for SolidWorks 2005 on it comparing
results to Dell M70. The only thing that I did that was not documented
for the benchmark was to convert the files into 2005 format before
running the test. My I/O numbers are better because of my SATA and the
fact that I converted the files. Here are the number for average of 5
test.
Dell M70
Total time 488.03
Graphics 93.3
CPU 202.83
I/O 191.91
Hypersonic Aviator FX7 before hot fix
Total time 439.48
Graphics 119.47
CPU 208.5
I/O 111.51
Hypersonic FX7 after hot fix
Total time 389.55
Graphics 111.66
CPU 180.11
I/O 97.78
Applying the hot fix made all activity faster, but my Graphics is
still slower than the Dell M70 and they have the same Graphics
processor. I have done some research on this and it appears that there
is an issue with Nvidia 80 series drivers and dual core processors. My
laptop has driver version 79.xx, but the drivers come from CLEVO, the
real manufacture of the laptop. This is a brand new model, so there
are no older versions of the video driver. I have notified them of my
issue, so I hope that they will get it resolved soon. It is ironic
that everyone complains about ATI drivers and Nvidia has problems.
I also found it strange that the hot fix reduced my I/O times. I
converted the files thinking that I/O times were effected by the CPU
since it had to convert the files when loading.
.
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