Acer 5672 XBench 1.2 Benchmarks w/ Merom T7400

This is pretty interesting. Been running Tiger OSX 10.4.6 and someone requested this benchmark from another thread. The Yonah 1.66GHz has been replaced with a Merom 2.16GHz CPU.

My Hackbook Acer 5672 w/ Merom T7400 XBench 1.2 Scores

Results90.29
System Info
Xbench Version1.2
System Version10.4.6 (8I1119)
Physical RAM1024 MB
ModelADP2,1
Drive TypeTOSHIBA MK1032GSX
CPU Test106.77
GCD Loop257.2913.56 Mops/sec
Floating Point Basic129.543.08 Gflop/sec
vecLib FFT74.222.45 Gflop/sec
Floating Point Library80.7514.06 Mops/sec
Thread Test215.82
Computation196.683.98 Mops/sec, 4 threads
Lock Contention239.0810.29 Mlocks/sec, 4 threads
Memory Test112.03
System110.63
Allocate80.43295.36 Kalloc/sec
Fill130.386339.58 MB/sec
Copy142.572944.83 MB/sec
Stream113.46
Copy108.172234.17 MB/sec
Scale110.272278.24 MB/sec
Add119.352542.52 MB/sec
Triad116.782498.31 MB/sec
Quartz Graphics Test87.35
Line89.065.93 Klines/sec [50% alpha]
Rectangle78.0423.30 Krects/sec [50% alpha]
Circle77.196.29 Kcircles/sec [50% alpha]
Bezier98.292.48 Kbeziers/sec [50% alpha]
Text99.336.21 Kchars/sec
OpenGL Graphics Test157.60
Spinning Squares157.60199.92 frames/sec
User Interface Test152.74
Elements152.74700.97 refresh/sec
Disk Test33.05
Sequential49.20
Uncached Write33.6420.65 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write49.0627.76 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read87.0825.48 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read50.7425.50 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Random24.88
Uncached Write9.200.97 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write42.7313.68 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read63.480.45 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read77.2614.34 MB/sec [256K blocks]

Cheers!

I'm still in the process of testing the system, but everything seems to work that I have found drivers for. Since it's a dual-boot system I really don't need network functionality on the Mac side.

The Mac can see the Win XP partition and can copy anything on it, but it can't be modified from the Mac. This is a cool safety feature IMO. USB works perfectly, so if you want to get something from the Mac to the PC side that's the best way. Win XP doesn't see the Mac drive.

There are occasional video glitches but they are extremely minor and infrequent. The system has run every Mac program I've tried to run but I'm still testing. It did crash in chess. Not sure if it's a Merom thing or an OS one. Another glitch is that the screensaver doesn't seem to kick in automatically. I can go to it and preview it just fine, but I haven't been able to get it to run automatically. Could be the way I have my power saving stuff configured.

There are some things missing in the guide, but it's pretty much complete. Here are some things it doesn't tell you that it should:

The borisbadenov X1600-X1800 mobility drivers don't work with the 10.4.6 Tiger I used. Make sure you install the mobility support from the OS DVD.

You can't use the shareware version of Acronis Disk Director 10 to make the Mac partition. You must use the licensed version.

For the dual-boot to work properly you must go into Acronis OS Selector (after the partition is converted to primary) and right-click on the icon that will load your OSX. The OSX partition must be marked "Active". If you don't do this your computer will just boot into Windows when you double-click on the OSX icon.

I've been really busy with work and things so I have not been able to spend as much time testing as I'd like, but I'll do some more soon and update this thread. Cheers!

It's Merom, not Memron. Heat is much lower for the same amount of CPU power, but the Merom is 20-30% more powerful depending on the application. The system has great battery life with Merom. When it's running on batteries the system lowers the voltage to well under a volt. As a result the heat is greatly reduced (as is the performance), but since Merom is so much more powerful the system remains very snappy with ridiculously low temps. When it's running on batteries I couldn't get the CPU HSF over 49c, even when looping 3DMark2001 with an ATi X1600. Pretty sweet.

Stay tuned for more.

Cheers!