Comments on: Benchmarking the Asus UL30A (and other PCs)

By: psydeways

psydeways — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 02:19:34 +0000

I got my black Lenovo U150 (SU7300) and I'd be happy to run & post benchmarks. I downloaded & decompressed & started running the tasks. I would appreciate more detailed instructions to (1) make it easier for people like me unfamiliar with these apps to run them and (2) make our results more comparable. E.g., What files need to be run for installation (& in what order), how to use VirtualDub to save the file as XViD, etc. Also, any prep work such as turning off the antivirus, bluetooth, internet access, or defrag, etc. Also, my folder copy was much longer than 10s – was that an SSD in your ASUS UL30A?

By: psydeways

psydeways — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 21:19:34 +0000

By: Brad Linder

Brad Linder — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 14:33:28 +0000

Sounds reasonable. Or you could just give the range.

By: frychiko

frychiko — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 14:31:58 +0000

Yeah looks like it. Since the score varies so much (I am seeing a 20 sec difference) for copying what do you suggest? taking the average of 5 results?

By: Brad Linder

Brad Linder — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 14:27:27 +0000

I just ran it again and got 1:03. It looks like my model might have a faster
hard drive than yours.

By: frychiko

frychiko — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 14:23:38 +0000

I just remembered I have a 250GB HDD in mine, not a 160GB HDD like on yours and the US models so that would account for differences.

I've run the test about 10 times and am getting various scores between 1:16 – 1:38 seconds. Are you getting the same score (55s) every time?

By: Brad Linder

Brad Linder — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 14:00:35 +0000

Yeah, I figured ZIP is probably a more common file format, and I just like
the 7-zip user interface better than the Windows utility. Basically I picked
these CPU and HDD stress tests because they represent things I'm likely to
actually do with a PC.

By: frychiko

frychiko — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 13:57:21 +0000

Ah so you're making a .zip file. I redid it using .zip and got 1:39 so we're getting the same for both. (give or take a second). Cool.

By: Brad Linder

Brad Linder — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 13:25:45 +0000

Hmm... that's odd. I did the same test on the new dual core 1410 and got
0:55 for folder copy (2186 files totaling 478MB) and 1:38 for the zip test
(2186 files, the ZIP file is 453MB).

Did you use 7-zip to zip the folders, and did you use the ZIP settings
instead of the 7z setting?

I was shocked by the 10 second folder copy on the UL30A, but that's honestly
what happened.

By: frychiko

frychiko — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 12:17:05 +0000

I was zipping / copying the whole folder rather than just the picture folder. Wasn't sure which one you did.

By: frychiko

frychiko — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 10:11:37 +0000

Brad, I did some benchmarking with this folder and something seems wierd comared to your results of 10s / 1:02.

For example on my desktop (Intel E7400, 7200RPM HDD) I'm getting 56s / 3:18 for the copy / zip tests. The 1410 gets 1:49 / 6:07.

By: DougC3

DougC3 — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 04:46:20 +0000

Meanwhile maybe people could post to a thread in the Liliputing forums, maybe General Discussion (or maybe Hardware, since that would be the main variable), and if there's enough interest, I suppose there could be a dedicated forum category.

By: Brad Linder

Brad Linder — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 22:21:07 +0000

If we get enough people interested in sharing their results, I might put
together a Wiki. I'll keep you posted!

By: netbooked

netbooked — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 06:34:29 +0000

This is a great idea and I might start using this for my benchmarks too.

By: Brad Linder

Brad Linder — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 01:21:52 +0000

Right… a txt file with instructions probably would have been a good idea. But I don't really feel like uploading another 450MB file over my DSL connection tonight, so I'd just direct people to this blog post for instructions… for now.