Hp Cq40 Notebook Review

HP notebook market has been outstanding. In the consumer notebook, we can see the video home entertainment in the Pavilion series, but also to see the MINI personality and portable, and users who require a high degree of price falls on the head of Compaq Presario.

Compaq Presario series A surface have a deformation fonts Q, we can also put it as a letter C, turn to look at is the sound shape of the character.

The size of the Compaq Presario series covers a wide range of B1200 series from 12 inches to 16 inches CQ60 products can be said to provide users with a lot of choice. But have a wide range of size options are not enough, The Compaq Presario series pricing is also between 4000-6000 yuan, and this is the series of popular one of the reasons. Finally look at the rationality of the hardware configuration, the Compaq Presario range of products starting from the configuration balanced perspective, that is able to respond to the environment operating under a variety of mainstream applications. Consideration of various factors to ensure that the Compaq Presario series has become concerned about the high rate of product.

This test is a product of the Compaq Presario series, HP CQ40 313ax. The appearance of the part, it inherited the HP has always been law-abiding, design patterns, and configuration, the CQ40 maintain the original balance.

Advantages:

1, the hardware configuration is balanced

2, fashion design

Disadvantages:

1, the surface is easily contaminated with fingerprints

2, local heat

HP CQ40 313ax looks very plain, using HP's low-key and practical design style. That seem obvious, but the surface with piano paint technology, was able to attract young users alike.

Hp CQ40 313ax using the 14.1-inch design, screen resolution of 1280x800. This is a similar product positioning of the notebook the size of the design. CQ40's appearance with piano paint treatment process, the visual effect is very stylish.

HP CQ40 excellent workmanship, keyboard top and sides with a special texture design, visual perception is beautiful. C function keys to switch button and the wireless switch, circular design to fit fingers, good touch.

HP CQ40 palm rest silver piano lacquer process, avoiding the color monotonous sense of formality. Notebook touchpad with integrated design, the sink area for the available range. The slider design makes browsing the web easier. The top of the design of the the touchpad shield button, not accustomed to using the touchpad the user can choose to turn off.

The type of expansion port of the HP CQ40 worthy of recognition, a commonly used port configuration, also attached to the HDMI port to meet the high quality audio and video output requires outstanding performance in its class.

The left side of the product provides a VGA port, network interface, HDMI port, a USB 2.0 port, card reader slot.

Right of the product provides a power port, two USB 2.0 ports, optical drive. HP CQ40-port design, eliminating the Modem port.

HPCQ40 audio input and output ports in the right side of the notebook front end, user-friendly plug a headset and microphone to use than the port on one side is much more convenient.

We take a look at the configuration of this machine. The processor part of HPCQ40 313ax AMD mobile dual-core Athlon 64 processor, using a Griffin core, running at 2.0GHz, the FSB 1800MHz, 1MB L2.

Memory part of the HP CQ40 1GB of RAM, install Vista under the conditions, it is slightly less. Users can be upgraded according to individual needs. Storage, this notebook with a 250GB SATA 5400 rpm hard drive, DVD burner, flat configuration level and with the price of products.

HP CQ40 313ax display chip is the ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3450, the face of the entry-level discrete graphics users. Response to high intensity 3D computing and HD video playback is not a problem. Works much better for most of the integrated graphics notebooks.

Mobility Radeon HD 3450 graphics card with 256MB of dedicated graphics memory, Memory Interface 64bit GPU core frequency of 500MHz, memory frequency of 700MHz.

The complete hardware test platform is built on Windows Vista Ultimate English on the basis of performance testing during the power management options to be adjusted to High Performans, close the screen saver, hibernation, system restore, automatic updates, firewall and other functions.

MobileMark2007

We update the battery test procedures to the latest version MobileMark2007, this battery and the performance of the whole test is divided into the following test items, each focuses on the DVD player, high-intensity office, the document read three environments. We selected two projects focus on the family environment and office environment to test the DVD Playback and Productivity. These two tests are simulated home environment extreme DVD playback test, only the running time, does not record the performance score.

Productivity will simulate the daily office of the running user access to various software and the system will be mixed, ranging from intermittent time, simulate user operating environment to the greatest extent. The test will record the test time, performance score.

Each test run, we will restart the computer, and disk defragmentation, if the BIOS has the SpeedStep adjustment options, we will all be set to Automic. The moment of the test run, we will screen backlight adjustment for intermediate values, shut down before the will of all the projects that may affect the test score. DVD playback test session, we will be the volume to a minimum.

SYSmark2007 the Preview Kit

This type of performance evaluation software, including E-Learning, Office Productivity, Video Creation, 3D Modeling, simulation users to learn the Internet, office applications, image creation, 3D modeling respectively. The test software to simulate the daily office operations of the different users of office software, to assess the overall system performance through the daily operation of the analog user. Each test were run 3 times, take the test three times the highest performance score. Each run would require defragging. Test the higher the score the better.

Individual performance test procedures:

HD Tach tests the hard disk is divided into an entire partition, formatted as NTFS, defragment the hard disk and restart your computer running HD Tach RW, Long Bench, recorded curves and results. Reading rate score, the higher the better. Disk response time, the shorter the better.

Individual performance test procedures:

PCMark05 v120

PCMakr05 is a relatively simple suite of test software, available for testing include the graphics card, CPU, memory and hard disk, while also providing

An integrated test program (and the above test scores). We will run the System Test Suite, the Test Suite, the CPU, Memory Test Suite, Graphics Test Suite HDD Test Suite. Test the higher the score the better.

3DMark06 v110

3DMark06 all performance tests in D3D performance for notebook computers, we run one of the GameTest record system

1024 * 768 * 32Bit with 640 * 480 * 16Bit test results. Test the higher the score the better.

Vista experience index score

Experience Index score is built into Windows Vista computer performance evaluation system for performance testing on the laptop.

Evaluation software through the performance of the five components of the processor, memory, graphics, game performance, the primary hard to give the corresponding score. (This test result is only for reference, not as a horizontal evaluation score based) test score as high as possible.

The practical application of the test:

WinRAR 3.70

WinRAR is a major file compression software, through its built-in test functions, test results tend to the processor, memory performance. The test results in units of KB / s, the higher the score the better.

Adobe Premiere Pro 2.0

Adobe Premiere Pro 2.0 is a well-known video-editing software, feature-rich and powerful, we mainly use this software video encoder output. The video source is 51.8MB 1080P video files, file encoded using MPEG2. Video compression output format:

QuickTime H264, QuickTime as MPEG4. Record operation time (unit: seconds), the shorter the better.

Microsoft Office Excel 2007

Microsoft Office Excel 2007 is a powerful and widely used spreadsheet tool. We use by

MonteCarlo_BlackScholes_OptionPricing, Calculations_BigNumberCrunch two tests for testing, and record the operating time (unit: seconds), the shorter the better.

MonteCarlo_BlackScholes_OptionPricing the load using the Monte Carlo simulation algorithm for Black-Scholes option pricing calculations. Simply put, it is an extremely complex computing capabilities of a spreadsheet (70.1MB) when the input

Parameter changes, it immediately on the price of an option to recalculate. The whole process about 300 000 Monte Carlo simulations

Calculations.

Calculations_BigNumberCrunch, the load for a capacity of 6.2MB spreadsheet, the testing process to be completed in 28 000 operations, the main use of some basic computing functions in Excel, for example, add, subtract, with the exception of rounding, square root, maximum , minimum, average and median.

In Adobe Photoshop CS3, v10.0

Adobe Photoshop CS3, v10.0 is a well-known by the public of professional graphics editing software. By loading a 5000x3333.jpg image file, the file size of 12.9MB. The picture Covert Mode, Watercolor, Smart the Blur, Sprayed The Strokes, Ocean Ripple, Dust, & Scratches, Crystallize, Lighting, Effects, the Smart S arpen (*), Halftone Pattern, extrude, Mosaic was the Tiles 12 users use the higher operating frequency, Record operation time (unit: seconds), the shorter the better.

Game test:

For notebooks with discrete graphics products, the actual game simulation tests, specific test items for the Quake 4 1.2 id_dedemo001 (Quake 4), FarCry 1.4 (Far Cry), Company of Heroes (Heroes), Need for Speed the Carbon (Need for Speed 10 Carbon Canyon) All game tests were fully open to 1024x768 high-definition (special effects), 800x600 low quality (effects all closed) the average run record frames, the average number of frames, the higher the better.

Workstation positioning products, we will test additional professional graphics projects.

Other equipment test items

Temperature test the laptop into the left of the keyboard, the keyboard on the right hand under the left side of the hand under the somekeyword right side, CPU outlet and the bottom of the fuselage corresponding CPU position for testing. TabletPC, UMPC, sheet metal computer and a special form of laptop computers, generally corresponding to the test point is the top left of the screen, the top right of the screen, the bottom left of the screen, the bottom right of the screen, and outlet and for the processor body back, test equipment testo 825-T2 Infrared Thermometer, test criteria are as follows

Shielded from the start projects, run 3Dmark06 the Demo run with a resolution of 800 * 600, check the Loop option to turn off the sound should ensure that, before the system starts off at least 3 hours, 20 minutes after the run Demo to test the six temperature test the external environment of 25 degrees + -2 degrees, there is no significant wind blowing products in the testing process.

Weight test, we will not refer to any official data to receipt of test products and test tools to meet the national standard ACS 6A-JJ electronic scales, test data retained after the decimal point two, the test data is divided into two parts, one is carrying weight, including power adapter and the host cell, a machine weight only known host and battery weight.

Excellent product for laptop LCD screen configuration, we will separate objective data LCD screen test, test equipment for the TopconBM-7 luminance color tester specific test criteria, see IT168 LCD display test methods.

Note

1, notebook computer, passive cooling device will not record the CPU air outlet temperature.

2, there is no built-in optical drive notebook computers will use the test plug-in CD-ROM form, the plug-in optical drive using USB2.0 interface directly to power supply, Model for the NEC ND-6650A.

3, the subjective study will consider the following factors: the feel of the keyboard, mouse, instead of the device feel, built-in speaker performance, the outlet is located on the right side of the right design USB interface.

4, all test items are in 1024 * 768 * 32Bit environment to test, does not meet the conditions of selection screen stretching.

Run all tests will re-start your computer, run the Disk Defragmenter program.

6, all test results are based on test prototype

The hardware configuration of this product somekeyword is an entry-level benchmark, the HP the CQ40 313ax overall performance is not particularly good. The SYSmark2007 the Preview tests, the HP CQ40 313ax not successfully complete the entire test.

In the three tests, HP CQ40 313ax obtained results in line with the level of hardware configuration. PC Mark05 and the Vista Experience Index test, equipped with discrete graphics effects to be reflected in all aspects fraction are relatively balanced. Compared to integrated graphics, 3D computing more strength to meet the needs. 3D tests, CQ40 313ax get 1788 points, and the high-end graphics cards have a certain gap.

Disk performance tests, the HPCQ40 313ax configure the 250G SATA 5400 rpm hard drive performance to performance in general, with an average read speed of 45.4MB / s. Disk response time performance, test scores of 17.4ms.

HP CQ40 313ax poor performance of battery life. Due not only to configure the battery level is not high, equipped with 47-watt-hour lithium battery, and other discrete graphics applications also lead to shorter battery life. MobileMark07 setting requirements, the battery of the notebook configuration can not run for 120 minutes, so the test can not give the final results. DVD playback time is less than two hours, the products of the same size, battery life is shorter.

HP CQ40 313ax poor performance in the practical application of software testing. Adobe Photoshop CS3 test, a full seven rendering test more than 10 seconds, especially long in the Smart Blur, extrude, and other time-consuming.

WinRAR data compression test, the HP the CQ40 313ax results to 471KB / s, slightly worse performance. Adobe Premiere video converter compression rate test, the two conversion takes longer because the processor is low. Excel data to calculate the performance of this product is not satisfactory. The user to see this product in the practical application of software testing results with key curved design, good touch.

HP CQ40 313ax selling point is not high-end hardware configuration, but pay attention to the balance of the configuration, stylish design and a higher price. HP notebook product line, the Compaq Presario series of book prices are lower than the products of the same size. This product the somekeyword configuration than the previous upgrade, the price was almost the same. Almost forgot to say, this notebook is configured with the camera, users that require the exchange of video and a friend can be one more choice. Product heat accumulation situation slightly improved, the notebook will be more welcome.

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