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post #1 of 6
10/1/03 at 12:01am
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I have compared my Sager 8890 to my Dual 2ghz Athlon in these benches.
The Desktop is referred to as the TigerMP, because it is based on a
Tyan Tiger MP motherboard. (both have a gig of ram)

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ZD Net 32 bit CPUmark (circa 1999-not smp aware)
TigerMP = 165
Sager 8890 Battery powered (Throttled by Xp - disabled in bios?) = 167
Sager 8890 Plugged in = 208

2.56 ghz on battery and 3.2ghz plugged in
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CINEBENCH 2003 v1
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Tester 1_of_9
Platform Sager 8890
Processor Intel
MHz 3.2 ghz HT
Number of CPUs 2
Operating System WinXp Sp-1
Graphics Card ATI Radeon 9600 Pro
Resolution 1280 x 1024
Color Depth 32 bit
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Rendering (Single CPU): 319 CB-CPU
Rendering (Multiple CPU): 377 CB-CPU

Multiprocessor Speedup: 1.18

Shading (CINEMA 4D) : 327 CB-GFX
Shading (OpenGL Software Lighting) : 1470 CB-GFX
Shading (OpenGL Hardware Lighting) : 2639 CB-GFX

OpenGL Speedup: 8.07
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CINEBENCH 2003 v1
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Tester 1_of_9
Platform Dual Athlon 2400 MP's on Tyan TigerMP
Processor AMD
MHz 2 x 2.0 ghz
Number of CPUs 2
Operating System Win XP Pro
Graphics Card AIW Radeon
Resolution 2056 x 1548
Color Depth 32 bit
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Rendering (Single CPU): 246 CB-CPU
Rendering (Multiple CPU): 457 CB-CPU

Multiprocessor Speedup: 1.85

Shading (CINEMA 4D) : 242 CB-GFX
Shading (OpenGL Software Lighting) : 792 CB-GFX
Shading (OpenGL Hardware Lighting) : 760 CB-GFX

OpenGL Speedup: 3.27
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Flask Mpeg v0.60 Preview 5min 5 second Mpeg2 175 Mbs encoded to
640 x 480 xvid @ 900 kbps Single pass CBR (default) - deinterlaced
with proressive reconstruction HQ Bicubic filtering and Using mmx iDCT.
Audio encoded to MP3 @ 96 kBits/s 44,100 Hz Stereo at the same time.

TigerMp = 24-28 fps and 6 minutes 19 seconds.
Sager 8890 = 28-32 fps and 5 minutes 25 seconds
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Xmpeg v 5.0 RC 2-3 all the same settings as Flask except the Miha x87 fast
iDCT was used instead (best quality iDCT).

TigerMP = 38-42 fps and 4 minutes and 11 seconds
Sager 8890 = 37-45 fps and 4 minutes 7 seconds

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AquaMark 3D

Tiger MP with ATI Radeon AIW
GFX = 399
CPU = 5331
3858 Aqua Marks

Sager 8890 with ATI 9600 Pro
GFX = 2694
CPU = 8929
23,417 Aqua Marks
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HD Tach v2.52

Tiger MP testing Western Digital 80gb 7200 rpm drive 8mb cache
---14.1 ms random access
---34,507 maximum kps
---5001 minimum kps
---30,731 average kps
---CPU utilization = 14.2%

Sager 8890 testing 2 60gb 5400 rpm drives 16mb cache each raid 0
---18.5 ms random access
---50,403 maximum kps
---4684 minimum kps
---32,914 average kps
---CPU utilization = 1.9%
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post #2 of 6
10/1/03 at 7:24pm
Thanks for suplying all the data. Its nice to see newer forum members becoming actively involved some how.

So how happy are you overall with your new beast of a machine?
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post #3 of 6
10/1/03 at 7:48pm
I'd guess he's pretty dang happy with it. Certainly gives his Tiger desktop a run for its money.
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post #4 of 6
10/1/03 at 10:30pm
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I am very happy with the 8890. It is performing exactly like what I was hoping for. I'm a photographer, and when not at home or work I was getting frustrated with the performance gap of my old p3 650 mhz laptop, and my duallie at home. I also do lots of video work, and this last vacation i began a transcode that was going to take 2 days 9 hours and some minutes. That started my search for something mobile that would be as fast as what i have at home....and i found the 8890...and just couldn't get it out of my mind. I actually don't care much for benchmarking, other than initally seeing how fast something is. I do have some issues to work out. The non-dithered display at 16 bit color, haven't got video capture above 352 x288 working yet...got to do 640 x 480 minimum. Haven't tested battery life under heavy use, and I do have a second battery...just need to know how much time i have in the field - even though most work wouldn't be on battery. If i didn't have so much fear about plugging a laptop into an 500+ amp auto battery - i'd get the auto adapter. (if the even make one yet)

When are the 6-in-1 card readers suppose to ship?
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post #5 of 6
10/2/03 at 12:22am
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Originally posted by 1_of_9
When are the 6-in-1 card readers suppose to ship?
That really is a question for Adam from PCTorque. He would be able to answer that question. I know(?) in another thread he said he was adding them to site and the cost would be around $40.

Not sure on their actual shipping readiness or not.
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post #6 of 6
10/2/03 at 1:58pm
Great review. It must have taken some time to run the benchies and compile all of the data. Thanks for sharing it with us.

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