The new "Danube" platform entered the 45nm era, because there are three core, quad-core products to join, so we can see inside the processor Phenom II sequence name, this high-end processor model major "endorsement" 3, quad-core processor, and Turion II, Athlon II these two familiar faces are still there, Turion II played the major burden of tackling the task of mid-market, and Athlon II is the main face of the low-end market. "Danube" platform chipsets simultaneously upgraded to M880G, is still three-chip architecture, Northbridge built ATi Mobility Radeon HD 4250 graphics core, while the ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5000 Series graphics card with you as a match.
But for many users, although AMD's triple-core processors have a good propaganda point, but its actual performance is no concept more attractive triple-core, but quad-core price has to exceed the triple-core products a lot, so there are many users looking notebook platform, AMD processors, such as a desktop product to as "open core", so as to achieve the same price, performance improvement purposes. Happy coincidence is that ASUS has introduced a 3 +1 core processor equipped with laptops, a certain sense, this product can be understood as the laptop version of the "open core" product, then after opening the nuclear performance? Is not able to play in the end Core i5 processor performance on a shorter length in it? In this evaluation, we chose a mix of ATi Mobility Radeon HD 5470 graphics card, ASUS A42DQ evaluation, we test the performance from the baseline for this platform and user experience are closely related to the use of comfort have made a detailed test, hope able to carry the reader to understand this 3 + 1-core processor notebook help.
Asus A42DQ is a mold using a 14-inch products, body size is 350x238x32mm, weight of this product as a stand-alone weight 2.384kg, travel weight of 2.918kg, for a position in the mainstream entertainment market 14-inch notebook , the size and weight of this part of the mainstream level.
AMD Phenom II N830 was originally based on the 45nm process is a core of three three-thread CPU, this product of the frequency reached 2.1GHz, with 384KB level two cache and 1.5MB of cache, the use of 45nm process technology, Therefore, its thermal design power TDP 35W, compared with previous products have dropped significantly. Of course this is only the original should have indicators of N830, from CPUZ screenshot we can see the AMD Phenom II N830 followed by a 3 +1 mark, which is this product apart.
Chipset, this product is selected Northbridge 785GX + SB850 South Bridge mix, and have no choice but A42DQ chipset built-in HD 4200 integrated graphics, instead of using a ATI MOBILITY RADEON HD 5470 as a single significant part.
A42DQ using ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5470 DX11 graphics card is AMD's latest positioning of the lowest HD 5400 series, but the series is divided into three different positioning of the products, ATi Mobility Radeon HD 5470 in which the positioning of the highest, and on whether it is the positioning of this product or specification targets, with the previous low-end "king" ATi Mobility Radeon HD 4570 is similar, the difference is that this card work with the latest 40nm manufacturing process, with 292 million transistors, support for the latest DX11, OpenGL 3.2, while memory with upgrade GDDR5/DDR3, with 80 stream processors, core clock 750MHz, 1GB of memory, the texture / rasterization unit increased to 8 / 16, while the TDP has also been rise, with the GDDR5 memory at the time of 15W.
We received this prototype with a capacity of 320GB Seagate ST932032 hard drive size, this hard drive has a capacity of 320GB 5400 RPM high speed, but also supports SATAII interface, with the SB850 Southbridge can reach 3.0Gb / s transmission speed.
Network communication capabilities, A42DQ wired with a JMicron PCI Express card with Atheros AR9285 wireless card combination, this provides users with a good solution, supports 802.11n wireless LAN communication protocols, the actual connection speed up to 150Mbps, while wired network card support 10/100/1000M connection.
In the interface area, A42DQ also provides users with mainstream 3X USB2.0, 1X HDMI, 1X D-SUB, 1X RJ45, 1 set of audio input and output interface and a card reader configurations, sufficient for most everyday users with demand.
Assessment from the system point of view, this A42DQ the overall final score of 4.9 in each sub-item, game-related graphics performance becomes the bottleneck of the whole system, and desktop graphics processing power is to get 5.0 points, indicating that this Block user to run graphics card can support low-load part of the mainstream 3D games and applications. Processor child got a score of 6.9, 3 + 1 design and 2.1GHz core clock speed contributed to the hard part is to get a score of 5.7 points, so if the user dissatisfaction with the performance, you can upgrade to 7200 to get better disk performance.
ASUS battery life, power consumption and heat control test.
In the test, we close the screensaver, sleep, and set the battery and the system are the highest performance mode, the test session in the office environment, this battery provides 217 minutes of battery life, and DVD player part of the final test score of 167 minutes , taking into account this product uses high-frequency multi-core processor, discrete graphics power so large, and require frequent testing of the hard disk read and write operations can be said that such a result for a high-profile mainstream notebooks said enough to make us feel satisfied, considering that we are in the case of high load tests carried out, I believe that with effective power management can further extend the life time. If users have higher expectations of life, then you can buy more high-capacity battery to extend battery life to achieve the purpose.
As a use of the latest 3 +1 core processor notebook, this A42DQ With 45nm 3 +1 core processors become the new course in 2010 the star of the year-end notebook, while HD 5470 graphics card, large hard drives and high-speed memory to provide users with excellent overall performance. Which is 3 + 1-core processor with a relatively high frequency, the unique 3 +1 core designed this product to a major selling point.
Core processor with 3 + + HD 5470 graphics card configurations to meet most current mainstream applications such as World of Warcraft, low-load stand-alone 3D gaming, HD video, home entertainment and other applications is not a problem, on the current status of the product on the market and We tested products daily practice perspective, the demand for office applications, Internet, multimedia playback and 3D gaming applications of moderate intensity-based users, this product is equipped with the hardware performance, or to meet the needs of most users.
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