In Intel offering out "intellectual variable" large flag zhihou, AMD still adhere to more nuclear of, and in desktop market to more nuclear of made user concern zhihou, in May 2010 AMD announced its notebook platform processor official entered more nuclear of era, code for "Danube" of new platform and Shang generation of "end lattice in Republika" compared to maximum of features is full entered has three nuclear, and four nuclear of era.
New of "Danube" platform full entered has 45nm era, due to has three nuclear, and four nuclear products of joined, so we in processor sequence inside also see Phenom II of name, this high-end processor model main "endorsements" three nuclear, and four nuclear processor, and Turion II, and Athlon II this two familiar of faces still exists, Turion II main burden up in the end market of storming task, and Athlon II is main face in the low-end products market. "Danube" platform chipset sync upgraded to M880G is still three chip architecture, ATi Mobility Radeon HD 4,250 Northbridge built graphics core, ATI Mobility Radeon HD series of 5,000 as a discrete graphics card and match.
But for many user for, although AMD of three nuclear processor has good of publicity points, but its actual performance is and no three core this concept came attractive, but four nuclear of price is to beyond three nuclear products many, so also has many user looked forward to notebook platform of AMD processor can as desktop products as to a to "opened nuclear", to reached price does not variable, performance upgrade of purpose. As luck would have it is ASUS recently unveiled a piggyback 3+1 core processor notebook product, this product in a certain sense can be understood as a notebook version of the "open core" product, open core after performance? Is not able to end with an opponent on processor core i5 performance relatively strong and weak points? This evaluation we chose a mix of ASUS ATi Mobility Radeon HD 5,470 discrete graphics A42DQ are evaluated, in tests we focused on this platform to benchmark performance and comfort of the user experience is closely related to detailed tests are done, hopes to be able to carry readers understand that help notebook 3+1 core processors.
ASUS A42DQ is a 14-inch mold manufacturing products, fuselage size 350x238x32mm, single machine weight 2.384kg weight of the product, the travel weight 2.918kg, for a mainstream entertainment market positioning in the 14-inch notebook, so that the size and weight belongs to the mainstream level.
AMD Phenom II N830 was originally a three core based on 45nm technology to create three-way CPU, clock speed reached the 2.1GHz of this product, with 384KB secondary cache cache, and 1.5MB, as a result of the 45nm process technology, its thermal design power of 35W TDP than products have dropped significantly in the past. Of course this is only original N830 should have indicators, we can see in the screenshot from CPUZ AMD Phenom II N830 tag followed by 3+1, which is the product differentiators.
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A42DQ video card ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5,470 belonging to AMD new DX11 graphics card HD 5,400 series with the lowest position, which is divided into three different positioning of products in the series, including ATi Mobility Radeon HD 5,470 highest-position, and either the positioning of the product or the specification index, previous low-end "King" ATi Mobility Radeon HD 4,570 similar, by different of is this paragraph graphics used has latest of 40nm work system Cheng, has 292 million a transistor, support latest of DX11, and OpenGL 3.2, while memory match upgrade for GDDR5/DDR3, has 80 a flow processor, core frequency 750MHz, support 1GB memory, texture/grating of unit increased to has eight-sixteenths a, and while TDP power also has rose, in match GDDR5 memory Shi for 15W.
We received this prototype uses a 320GB for specification of the Seagate ST932032 hard disk, the capacity reaches 320GB hard drive with 5,400 rpm high speed, but also support SATAII interface, combined with the SB850 South Bridge 3.0Gb/s transfer speeds can be achieved. ASUS laptop batteries.
Network communication abilities, the A42DQ uses a JMicron PCI Express cable adapter with Atheros AR9285 wireless card match, this match provides the user with a good solution, support for wireless 802.11n communication protocol, the actual connection speed may reach 150Mbps, wired network card supports 10/100/1000M connection.
In terms of interfaces, A42DQ also provides users with a mainstream 3X USB2.0, 1X, HDMI, 1X, D-SUB, 1X, RJ45, 1 set of audio input/output interfaces, as well as 1-card reader configuration, sufficient to meet the needs of most users for daily use.
Assessment from the system point of view, the A42DQ total final score of 4.9, in each child, game related graphics performance has become the bottleneck of the system as a whole, and desktop graphics power you get 5 points, indicating that this piece of discrete graphics card to support users running low part loads of mainstream 3D games and applications. Processor subkey high score of 6.9 points, core design and 2.1GHz of 3+1 frequency cannot be left unrecognized, and the hard parts are the score of 5.7 points, if the user is frustrated with the performance, you can upgrade to a 7,200 RPM hard disk for better disk performance.
From the above test results, as a result of the HD 5,470 discrete graphics, so the A42DQ in this part of the test results are quite satisfactory, 6,332 composite score and 6,124-GPU testing results show that the product can cope with the vast majority of 3D games. While AMD 3+1 processor performance once again appeared, with 7,051 test scores can meet the needs of larger game on processor performance, and the test results than around three core N830 upgrade 8%.
In the tests, we test the optimum brightness for 241cd/m2, and 525.7:1 contrast, color saturation of the test number is 61.85%. Final test results, A42DQ is equipped with all aspects of this LCD indicator is average, whether it's brightness, contrast and color saturation are average for laptop LCD screens on the market today, and this is reflected in the text read, pictures and video playback when you get a better look.
Control test of ASUS battery life, power consumption and heat.
A42DQ standard 10.8V,48Wh lithium-ion battery. We mainly use Mobile Mark2007 software multimedia production is mainly used to simulate the daily Office and thorough examination of life. MobileMark 2007 is based on real-Notebook battery life and performance evaluation software. It supported 64bit/32bit version of Windows Vista/XP (Professional/Home). It has three modes of testing: Productivity module, and DVD module and the Reader module, called Adobe AcrobatReader, respectively 7, Adobe Illustrator CS2, Adobe Photoshop CS2, Apple Quicktime 7.1, Intervideo WinDVD 8, Macromedia Flash 8、Microsoft Office 2003 Pro、Microsoft Project 2003、Winzip 10.0。 ASUS laptop batteries.
In test in the, we close screensaver, and sleep, and set battery and system are for highest performance mode, in Office environment test links in the, this block battery provides has 217 minutes of life time, and DVD play test part of eventually results for 167 minutes, considered to this paragraph products used has more core high frequency processor, and independent graphics such of power large, and test in the needs frequently of for hard drive reads and writes operation, can said such of results for a paragraph high configuration of mainstream notebook for, Had enough we are satisfied, considering that we are in the tests carried out under high load conditions, I believe that combined with efficient power management practices can further extend the battery life. If the user has higher requirements for battery life, but also can purchase large capacity battery to achieve the aim of extending life.
As a 3+1 core processors with the latest notebooks, which A42DQ with 45nm notebook 3+1 core processors became the 2010 end products, of course, Star, HD 5,470 discrete graphics, large hard drive capacity and high speed memory to provide users with excellent overall performance. 3+1 core processors are working with higher clock speed, 3+1 unique design of the core and become a major selling point of this product.
To 3+1 core processor +HD 5,470 independent graphics of configuration meet currently most mainstream application as Warcraft, and low load stand-alone 3D game, and HD video, and family entertainment, application also is not problem of, on currently market Shang products status and we daily actual test had products of angle view, for demand to Office application, and Internet, and multimedia play and medium strength of 3D game application mainly of user, this paragraph products equipped with of hardware performance also is can meet which most user of demand.
