Alienware Sentia 1.8 vs. 1.6 benchmark battle

I have promised a few people on this forum that I would do a little benchmark competition between my New Sentia (1.8pentium M) and my good friends Sentia (1.6 pentium M ) Both machines are the newest versions from Alienware and are both less than a four months old. For benchmarking software we both used the included Sisoftware Sandra benchmarking utilities included with our machines. Here is the specs for each mahine

Mine. 1.8ghz Pentium M, 1024 mg pc2700 ram (512x2) Hitiatchi 60gb 7200 rpm HDD. 8x DVD Burneer

Other 1.6ghz Pentium M 2m L2 Cache. 1024 mg pc2700 ram (512x2) Hitatchi 60gb 7200 rpm HDD. 6x dvd burner

Both machines were plugged into ac power and the bios was set for maximum performance. Both machines are running most current bios upgrades and both running current updated versions of XP Pro.

Heres the numbers

My machine.

CPU 1.8 Pentium M running at 1.98 ghz
Front side bus 4x110 mhz (440 data) FSB max rated 4x110 (overclocking?)
Memory Bus 2x110mhz (220) data

Dhrystone ALU 6464 mips
Whetstone FPU/iSSE2 2637/3264 FLOPS
Integer iSSE 11178 it/s Float iSSE 13065 its

Buddies Machine

CPU 1.6 Pentium M Running at 1.6ghz
FSB 4x100 (400 data) FSB max rated 4x100
Memory bus 2x110 mhz (220) data

Dhrystone 5207 mips
Whetstone FPU/iSSE2 2110/3203 flops
Integer iSSE 9078it/s Float iSSE 10540its

Also my practicle excercise of downloading an eight gb file from my cannon Digital video camera processing and then burning to DVD .
My sentia 42 minutes
Other 46 minutes

This test my not be realistic this time because the dvd burners are rated at different speeds. I threw it in just for the hell of it.

So I hope this answers some questions as to weather the extra $135.00 bucks for the 1.8 over the 1.6 cpu is worth it.
I know after reading reading the above statement it may seem like I know what I am doing. DONT LET IT FOOL YOU!!! I am by no means a know it all,Hell I dont even know what half the stuff I just read means
I just assume that higher scores are better.

Anyhow hope it helps,

Gunner

1.6 overclocking

I just wanted to add that we tried every possible bios setting and performance sceme under windows power management and the 1.6 sentia would not overclock at any settings. I don't know why, Maybe the 1.6 isn't capable of overclocking?
If anyone really wants me to I can run my tests again with a different setting. Just let me know.

Gunner

sentia choices

The 1.6 Pentium M is the basic choice, Or should I saw the slowest of the available choices. I believe that they run from 1.6ghz to 2.1ghz. I chose the 1.8ghz version and am not dissapointed .

Gunner

2.0 is a killer!!!

Robert,

Like I said I am by no means a computer expert, But the scores your sentia are putting out look great for a thin and light computer. They certainly look much higher than the scores my machine posted. Hell I can't imagine a machine that runs faster than my sentia does, Every application I have run from Lotus Word Pro to adobe photo shop seems to run almost instantly.
Even When running my Microtek Scanmaker i320 with the digital ice program to restore old damaged photos the process takes mere seconds instead 5+ minutes on my Desktop (AMD Athlon 2200+, Igig ddr333 ram).
I know that the 2.0 test scores are much higher than the 1.8 but I wonder if the real world performance will be dramatically higher?


Gunner

battery life benchmark

Battery life benchmark, Not a problem. Any suggestions as how to accomplish this? My partner (Not that kind of partner ) and I work together three days a week so we can find time to accomplish just about any test that anybody would want with the two sentias.



Gunner