Acer Ferrari 3200 review (just a few pics/couple benches) - Page 20

You should all wait like me! Look below.

Worth the wait and extra money.

Proper benchmarks

As promised, here are the results from my comprehensive benchmarking of this beauty:

Setup

Laptop: Acer Ferrari 3200
CPU: AMD low-power Mobile Athlon 64 2800+ (1.8GHz, 512KB L2 cache) @ 206 HTT
RAM: 1GB PC3200 (2x Corsair XMS3200 (2.5-3-3-6) 512MB SO-DIMMs) @ DDR400
GFX: ATI Mobility Radeon 9700 (128MB, AGP8X, FW/SB=On) @ 485/250
HDD: Hitachi Travelstar 7K60 60GB 7200RPM (8MB cache)
OS: MS Windows XP Professional SP1 (NTFS), Omega Drivers 2.5.58

P.S. The system has been tweaked for optimal performance.

Benchmark results

HD Tach 3.0.1.0:
Burst speed: 96.6 MB/s
Random access: 14.8 ms
CPU utilization: 2 %
Average read: 31.0 MB/s

PCMark04 (Build 120):
3591

SiSoft Sandra 2004 SP2:
CPU Arithmetic: Dhrystone ALU 8530 MIPS, Whetstone FPU/iSSE2 2932/3795 MFLOPS
CPU Multi-Media: Integer 17709 it/s, Floating-Point 19057 it/s
RAM Bandwidth: Int 3148 MB/s, Float 3148 MB/s

ScienceMark 2.0:
Memory: 3038.41 MB/s bandwidth, 50.08 ns latency (512 byte stride)
Molecular Dynamics: 102.24720 s
Primordia: 453.25246 s
Cipher: 14.43664 s, 105.69 MB/s
Blas (SGEMM): 5304.97 peak MFLOPS, 2.86 FLOPS/cycle

Super PI 1.1:
1M: 48 s

Prime95 23.8.1:
Benchmark (Timing 11 iterations at 2048K FFT length): 152.084 ms

RealStorm Benchmark 2004:
2411 RayMarks (16.35 avg. fps, 7.42 min. fps, 31.7 max. fps)

KribiBench 1.1:
Jetshadow (realistic): 5.0356 fps

Pov-Ray 3.6:
Chess2.pov: 85.03 s

AquaMark3 1.0:
29911 (3657/8442 GFX/CPU)

3DMark2001 Second Edition (Build 330):
12916

3DMark03 (Build 340):
3637 (618 CPU score)

3DMark05 1.1.0:
1482 (2876 CPU score)

Unreal Tournament 2004:
1024x768 110.42 fps botmatch (dm-rankin: 136.26 fps, as-convoy: 77.71 fps, br-colossus: 117.29 fps)

Doom3:
640x480 54.0 fps Timedemo1 medium quality

Conclusion

This is by far the fastest slim laptop system that you can buy today, period!

NICE benchmarks bro!,....What clock speeds are your gpu clocked too? and where there any artifacting when you benched what was the highest clock you could get before the snow came?

The GPU was clocked 100% stable at 485/250 core/memory, and this was ofcourse without any artifacts or lockups (the 'snow' appeared at about 490/255 core/memory).

If I install the Omega Drivers, will it automatically detect the default core/memory clock settings that Acer set? Or will it overclock the card without me knowing?

I don't want to overlock the video, but I would like to have updated drivers that fixes a known video issue with Eve Online. Acer seem to be very bad at keeping drivers up to date. Hell, even WiFi drivers are a full year old and is the cause of my Ferrari 3200 to NOT connect to Linksys Super-G router. (yes my router works, and yes I can connect to other WiFi routers at work just fine....and yes I already formatted/reinstalled Windows to be sure of the issue)

No, it will use default core/memory clock settings.

Get the latest driver from here:
http://www.omegadrivers.net/ati.php

@Snorre: That is an outstanding result you got there. You must be very pleased with the results. I just got the Ferrari 3200 and just finished with installing the SP2 and later I need to install the omega drivers optimize other stuff. I will post later my results.

Anyone tried btw the Windows XP-64bit beta version? I was wondering how that one runs on this Ferrari.

OK, I just use one benchmark:

AquaMark 3 = 28,456.

Iinstalled the latest omega drivers. I put the core at 474.75 and the memory 249.75. The config of the PC is standard. Later I will put more benchmark results and some pictures.

Wow nice job that pretty high! are you going to leave it at that clock? or turn it back down to default?

Apparently a new shipment of Acer Ferrari 3200s finally arrived in America today. Mine is scheduled to pull into the driveway tomorrow, according to the local rep. I won't have time to do much more than unpack it and plug it in for a quick spin before going on vacation, but I'll be following this thread, needless to say. Thanks for all your informative posts!

Bootz

Uh, just two questions:

1) How long you gonna have to wait for PCI Express and that other thingie?

2) And what's it gonna cost?

Ferrari now, I sez!

Bootz

It should be out in a notebook in the next few months (2-3), and should only be another couple hundred dollars.

Where is the site that show's the lappy you are waiting on? I want ot see how it looks like! thx

well, the exact laptop w/ the specs i want isn't out yet, but this article tells who will be manufacturing them
http://www.ati.com/companyinfo/press/2004/4755.html
and if you go to this site, www.eurocom.com, then go to the future section and check out the bottom one, you can see what to expect in the next few months

Can you guys recommend me a good quality notebook lock for this laptop? Preferrably a lock that uses a combo. (I got my laptop stolen this spring, and this would be its replacement) Really wanna invest in a good quality lock

stampede, those are nice press releases! That Eurocom Phantom D900T is sure enough a nice looking machine. But I wager it will cost you upwards of over $3000 and weigh almost ten pounds when it finally ships, which I doubt will be by the middle of September. And it won't be a 64-bit chip when it does ship.

Do you know if the Eurocom Python will ship on August 15th as promised?

Not knocking you or those machines...just saying a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.

If I were a complete cynic, I'd say ten pounds, next year, and $3500.

Bootz

actually, it's 11 lbs. and the eurocom are always overpriced so i never buy from them...especially since they have a horrible dead pixel policy, but i was just showing that there are some models coming in the next few months

OHHHHHHH I LIKE thats nice!!! Yeah dude I'm not getting a lappy till probaly next year ....so I can expect to all the good sh!t that comes out by then! I wonder if they are going to make a 64 with pci express buy the time I buy my lappy.

does eroucom.com ship to the us?