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| Processor | AMD FX-8350 OC@4.5GHz |
|---|---|
| Motherboard | ASUS Sabertooth 990FX R2.0 |
| Cooling | CM hyper 212 Evo 2 PWM fans |
| Memory | G.Skill Ripjaws (2x4GB) DDR3 1600 |
| Video Card(s) | MSI Radeon HD 7770 |
| Storage | SSD Intel 160 GB; HDD Seagate 1TB |
| Display(s) | 42" Sony Bravia |
| Case | Rosewill Challenger U3 |
| Audio Device(s) | On Board Realtek ALC892 |
| Power Supply | Corsair HX 650 |
| Software | OS Win 7 Ult |
I am re-purposing an older Toshiba Satellite A215 S7444 to use at school because my Toshiba Qosmio is just too damn big and heavy to haul around school. I was able to get 4 gigs of ram and an amd TL-68 cpu from trading work/parts. I had an extra SSD 2.5" laying around as well so I was able to upgrade some of the components for no money out of my pocket. I am not expecting a high performance machine...obviously but for my needs this should suffice.
So after changing out the hardware and upgrading the bios, the laptop works, but not at the performance level I expected...For some reason it seemed that it ran faster or the same with the TL-58 and 2 gigs ram.
It used to have Win Vista 32 bit and now it has Win 7 32 bit. I had Win 7 64 bit at first, since the cpu is a 64 bit cpu, but I thought that maybe 64 was too much for the current hardware so I installed Win 7 32 bit. It always seems to be running above 70-80% total cpu load and is usually pegged at 100%. I installed open hardware monitor, CPU-Z and prime95 to test out and monitor everything. I ran a stress test and seemed to get mixed info.
Hardware monitor was reading different specs from CPU-Z in terms of clock speeds. Also after running the stress test for about 15 mins, the temp readings stayed at 41 and 49. Is it strange that the two cores are around 8-9 degrees different? Also why does it seem like the cpu is not running at full speed? Is it running as it should be?
Thanks,
Nick
So after changing out the hardware and upgrading the bios, the laptop works, but not at the performance level I expected...For some reason it seemed that it ran faster or the same with the TL-58 and 2 gigs ram.
It used to have Win Vista 32 bit and now it has Win 7 32 bit. I had Win 7 64 bit at first, since the cpu is a 64 bit cpu, but I thought that maybe 64 was too much for the current hardware so I installed Win 7 32 bit. It always seems to be running above 70-80% total cpu load and is usually pegged at 100%. I installed open hardware monitor, CPU-Z and prime95 to test out and monitor everything. I ran a stress test and seemed to get mixed info.
Hardware monitor was reading different specs from CPU-Z in terms of clock speeds. Also after running the stress test for about 15 mins, the temp readings stayed at 41 and 49. Is it strange that the two cores are around 8-9 degrees different? Also why does it seem like the cpu is not running at full speed? Is it running as it should be?
Thanks,
Nick
