Thursday 18 December 2014

unit 2 Task 5 M3, D2


The MacBook Pro 5.1 scored rather low considering the high quality product that it is supposed to be. As you can see the Ram scored 108 which shows that the computer system has quite a good random access memory. The Ram speed is also good as it can process up to 2687 MB per second. Overall the RAM score shows that the computer can access the memory fast and you can save things quickly.

The Computer Processing Unit test scored 187. This scored the best on the whole test meaning that it is the best component of the computer. The CPU holds all the components together so scoring well on this test was vital as all of the components are connected. The processor is Intel Core 2 Duo with 2530 MHz. The processor helps to process the information through the computer so the faster the processor the quicker the computer will run.

The NovaBench test showed that the MacBook Pro scored a low 29. The graphics speed was 70 3D Frames per second. The graphics the MacBook uses is the NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT. I would’ve thought that the graphics score would be higher using this graphics card.  Overall the graphics on the MacBook Pro scored average however I expected a better result

The NovaBench test showed that the Hardware Tests scored 16. The Drive Write speed was 40 MB per second which is remarkably slow when the best technology is supposed to be used. The Primary Partition Capacity is 223GB.


D2
The test taken on the MacBook Pro 5.1 in 2011 scored 340 on the NovaBench test altogether. To improve this score I would use the Intel Core i7 processor which runs at 2400 MHz. This would speed your computer up as you can save things quickly and the computer system can process the information quicker.
I would also increase the RAM to 8192 MB which would increase the memory size and enable you to save more files. By increasing the RAM you would also increase the saving speed to 8999 MB per second.
To improve the CPU I would use a different integer operations speed, and also increase the speed of the floating point operations. This would speed up the computer overall and increase the speed of the processing.
I would keep the graphics the same as that scored quite well considering the age of the MacBook. However if this was an issue I would change the graphics card and that would increase the pixels per inch. It would also make the screen clearer.

1 comment:

  1. www: an excellent report that does cover the following criteria: You have evaluated the performance of a computer system, based upon benchmark testing results. M3 achieved.
    You have explained and justified improvements that could be made to a computer system. D2 achieved.

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