Core Duo T2600! How can I test its performance?

Question

I bought a E1705 with Core Duo T2600, but I doubt its performance. If it is so powerful, why did my PC still freeze? When I unzip files, the unzipping speed slows down when I unzip another file. And don't even mention the start-up, took 5-8 minutes to load the junk Dell installed on my PC. Anyway, I'm looking for a testing application that can tell me how much it can handle, if you know anything, please let me know, thanks!

jmfmvps · Answer

Uninstall 'the junk', do a defrag and see how much better it runs.

madknight22 · Answer

I always do a reinstall when i get a new comp and that dumps most of the junk but the problem is that with dells there are tons of drivers that u need to put on so its not worth it to unzip faster u should try a different program like winrar because the unzipping that comes standard in windows isnt programed for efficiency.

Entropy42 · Answer

@yuejdesigner85 wrote:
I bought a E1705 with Core Duo T2600, but I doubt its performance. If it is so powerful, why did my PC still freeze? When I unzip files, the unzipping speed slows down when I unzip another file. And don't even mention the start-up, took 5-8 minutes to load the junk Dell installed on my PC. Anyway, I'm looking for a testing application that can tell me how much it can handle, if you know anything, please let me know, thanks!

Reinstall XP from scratch, or you can try doing a search for "Dell Decrapifier" on Google.

Dell Windows preinstalls are notoriously bad.

AlbuquerqueFX · Answer

@yuejdesigner85 wrote:
When I unzip files, the unzipping speed slows down when I unzip another file. And don't even mention the start-up, took 5-8 minutes to load the junk Dell installed on my PC.

Both examples you have just provided are disk limited, meaning the actual disk drive is the bottlenecking factor in both. When you are unzipping files, you are rapidly reading a compressed file and then simultaneously writing the uncompressed file(s) contained therein. Performing just one unzip operation is enough to force your disk drive to 100% utilization; opening a second Unzip operation (or Unrar, or any other decompression function) will go slow simply because the disk is already too busy.

During startup, a similar issue becomes apparent: there are dozens, if not hundreds of individual DLL, VXD, EXE and other files needed to be loaded into ram to start the operating system. The limit, again, is the speed at which your disk can seek and then transfer that data into memory. Disk fragmentation plays a large role in this scenario as well; keeping your disk defragmented and removing items from startup that are not necessary will greatly improve your boot speed.

If you wish to evaluate the performance of just your processor, find a utility that is meant for such a task. A common freeware utility that could help you evaluate the speed of your processor (or other components of your computer) against other similar equipment would be SiSoft Sandra. It will give you detailed benchmark analysis on floating point (math) speeds, integer (basic "task") speeds, L1/L2 cache memory speeds, system ram speeds, disk speeds, etc.

Locked Topics – Laptops General

Core Duo T2600! How can I test its performance?

Was this post helpful?