Hey, thought I'd share a bit of benchmarking I did tonight.
I recently purchased a 60GB 7200rpm hard drive, so I stuck that in my Dell 700m (1.6ghz, 512mb, Intel 2200, CDRW). By the way, if anyone decides to reinstall the harddrive -- don't forget that you need to take the metal chassis off the old harddrive, along with the pin adapter. Both of these need to be attached to the new harddrive. It's pretty obvious that this is the course of action to take, but it doesn't explicitly say to do this in the "maintenance manual" or messageboard FAQ.
After installing the harddrive, I installed a fresh copy of WinXP SP2 (corporate) onto the machine. I didn't want to load up any bulk, so I downloaded the basic drivers from the Dell website, and installed them until all the little "unrecognized device" icons went away in the Device Manager. (So, I installed drivers for video, sound, modem, wireless, etc... , but didn't install the touchpad utility, modem utility, etc...)
As an aside, the total install came out to be 2.05 GB (out of a 55.8 GB harddrive). That's after deleting the temporary files, and installing nothing else on the machine. Does anyone know what it is originally? I didn't take any initial benchmarks or info.
I used 3dmark 2001, and came out with a value of 2445. Pretty low, but it's unlikely you bought this machine to play games on. (The individual FPS rates in the order they were performed were: 43, 18, 51, 19, 48, 15 for those who care).
PCMark returned a "CPU Score" of 5354, a "Memory Score" of 8755, and a "HDD Score" of 949.
I might look for a better office testing suite and try it out eventually.
What did you get for those same tests? I've heard that SP2 slows things down by 10% or more, and I wanted to see if there was any truth to that.
I recently purchased a 60GB 7200rpm hard drive, so I stuck that in my Dell 700m (1.6ghz, 512mb, Intel 2200, CDRW). By the way, if anyone decides to reinstall the harddrive -- don't forget that you need to take the metal chassis off the old harddrive, along with the pin adapter. Both of these need to be attached to the new harddrive. It's pretty obvious that this is the course of action to take, but it doesn't explicitly say to do this in the "maintenance manual" or messageboard FAQ.
After installing the harddrive, I installed a fresh copy of WinXP SP2 (corporate) onto the machine. I didn't want to load up any bulk, so I downloaded the basic drivers from the Dell website, and installed them until all the little "unrecognized device" icons went away in the Device Manager. (So, I installed drivers for video, sound, modem, wireless, etc... , but didn't install the touchpad utility, modem utility, etc...)
As an aside, the total install came out to be 2.05 GB (out of a 55.8 GB harddrive). That's after deleting the temporary files, and installing nothing else on the machine. Does anyone know what it is originally? I didn't take any initial benchmarks or info.
I used 3dmark 2001, and came out with a value of 2445. Pretty low, but it's unlikely you bought this machine to play games on. (The individual FPS rates in the order they were performed were: 43, 18, 51, 19, 48, 15 for those who care).
PCMark returned a "CPU Score" of 5354, a "Memory Score" of 8755, and a "HDD Score" of 949.
I might look for a better office testing suite and try it out eventually.
What did you get for those same tests? I've heard that SP2 slows things down by 10% or more, and I wanted to see if there was any truth to that.
