re: HP G6 2005AX/2010AX/2201AX - powered by Trinity
Hello everyone .. I'm an owner of HP G6 2005AX .. Request to the moderator ==> please add me to the list of owners.
Bought it locally from a store @ 33280 with backpack and a few goodies (+1 year additional warranty from the store along with the 2 year free warranty from HP).So I guess it was a decent deal.
I have been using this laptop for almost a month now .. Now I have a few views and opinions about this machine ..
To all potential buyers who are willing to buy a laptop having this A8-4500 processor I would say this .. don't have too high expectations .. because this isn't a top-notch performer as far as processing power goes .. Let me give you an example .. I was watching a music video(720p) on wmp and there was a browser and skype opened in background . I decided to open itunes(x64) while this was happening .. now suddenly the audio got stuttered and it was clearly identified whether on earphones or on speakers .. This kind of glitches is unexpected from a quad core processor .. so clearly the individual cores are not powerful enough to handle multitasking ... If you are running a single processor hogging task then it performs good enough but just.
Then to all users who are claiming that 4GB ram is sufficient , I would say it's not because I have been playing GTA 4 and it always consumes around 90% ram after playing for 30mins .. and one time it got real slow .. then I checked that the ram usage was up to 94.5% on gadget. So if you're a gamer then be safe add another 4GB. Now comes the trouble, Hp gives you a ram which is of a frequency of 1600MHz almost twice as expensive as a 1333 one. Must be frustrating because it barely adds upto the performance .. If you're using the laptop for normal tasks then 4GB is enough .. ram usage remains under 60% even opening 5-6 background apps and of course the crapware that comes installed with the machine ..
HP coolsense -- no idea how it works .. probably it does have a influence in cooling the laptop .. I'm not sure .. but yes the laptop remains cool under normal usage .. heats up real bad when playing, I have a cheap cooling pad but it's to little effect.. Only played GTA 4 on this .. using 12.8 catalyst mobility drivers .. never had any problem .. everything is high .. did some benchmarking .. I've uploaded the results here .
View attachment Benchmark1 GTA 4.txt
View attachment Benchmark2 GTA 4.txt
both benchmarkings are done with dual gpu disabled on high performance mode .. so it's basically using AMD 7670HD as far as my knowledge goes. the difference in fps is due to disabling night shadows and low anisotropic settings .. pretty smooth .. update to performance patch 1.4.
I have Hitachi HDD .. I don't know what's all this fuss about the hard disk specifications and performance but mine runs pretty okay .. Nothing to complain about.
Battery back up .. Hmm a tough one .. Well there will always be different views regarding this one .. because the battery laptops generally ships with although the same specs but some might have better backup owing to a lot of factors of temp and days after first use etc .. One time I had a power cut so I tested it with everything turned to low and in power saving mode .. got about 4 hours watching tv series on wmp. half the time I had wireless internet on. So one can probably max out to 5 hours doing absolutely nothing just reading an ebook on my machine..
Below are the benchmarks I did with passmark 8.0 software .. Best results I have posted here ..
To conclude .. all in all a good buy but the processor is a bit of a letdown .. expected a bit better .. people who are comparing it to core i5 2nd gen are probably servants of AMD
it is core i3 3rd gen at best .. the clockspeed is a big letdown .. it would have been much more effective had it came with a 2.4GHz base speed The A8 also lacks the L3 cache which was unexpected from the new trinity series .. isn't gaming laptops supposed to be made to suck more power .. AMD designed this APU which will perform during gaming with turbo but well lacks the x-factor during normal tasks .. it does lag at times .. although it would perform better had it came with no OS because a lot of apps just stay in the ram during startup and never gets used ... but you can always disable them but yea .. I would rather take the high road
