The battery life of Big Ben also provides power for the new CR650 evaluation of MSI APU.

IT 168 evaluation On ces 20 1 1, AMD officially released the Fusion APU platform. AMD Fusion APU platform integrates multi-core (x86)CPU, discrete graphics card and high-speed bus on a single chip, and has parallel processing engine and dedicated high-definition video acceleration module, which makes the data transmission of the whole computer faster. On the day of the exhibition, several major OEMs, including MSI, also exhibited the first batch of APU platform notebooks: smooth HD video playback effect, breakthrough computing ability to meet various applications, full support for DX 1 1 and all-weather battery life are several major features of APU notebooks.

We know that last year, MSI launched a variety of audio-visual and game notebooks with the size of 15.6 inches and above, which shows that MSI attaches importance to large-screen notebooks. However, under the same configuration and battery capacity, the large-screen notebook is not as good as the small notebook below 14 inch in battery life. This time, AMD's newly released APU platform, with its highly integrated CPU and graphics card, has made a new breakthrough in power control while ensuring high performance, and the battery life of portable books using APU platform will be extended accordingly. Therefore, MSI is the first company in the industry to use APU processors in newly released notebooks, which is different from other manufacturers' small-size APU notebooks. This time, the new product CR650 with APU is a 15.6-inch large-screen notebook computer, equipped with AMD Zacate E-350 APU dual-core processor, clocked at 1.6GHz, and the integrated graphics card core is Radium HD 63 10. Then, while paying attention to the performance of MSI CR650, its battery life is also excellent, which we will reveal in today's test.

▲ MSI CR650 top cover adopts color film printing coating process.

In terms of specific configuration, the MSI CR650 sent for testing is equipped with 2GB DDR3 memory, 500 5400 rpm hard disk, Gigabit Ethernet card, Wi-Fi 802. 1 1b/g/n wireless network card, over many DVD burners, two cinema-class stereo speakers, 720p/30fps HD camera and SD/SDD.

Gradient color film printing+chocolate buttons

MSI CR650 is located in multimedia entertainment applications, so the screen size is 15.6 inches, which can get a wide field of vision. Mainstream resolution 1366? Level 768, although it does not adopt the higher resolution of 1600X900 or full HD, but it is also based on its positioning. After all, APU platform is mainly used for audio-visual entertainment. There is not much difference between watching 1080p and 720p movies on the notebook. If you play games, I believe it is the hardware configuration rather than the screen that will affect the game effect. In terms of appearance, MSI CR650 not only adopts MSI's exclusive color film overprint coating technology, but also has a gradient design and fashion personality. The overall size of this machine is 383? 249.5? 33.4-37.6 mm, weighing 2.3 kg.

▲ MSI CR650 top cover is coated with color film.

The microsatellite CR650 adopts 15.6 inch 16: 9 mirror widescreen with a resolution of 1366X768. There is a 30W pixel camera above the screen. Although the pixels are not high, fortunately, it adopts a dual microphone design and is distributed on both sides of the camera, which can bring better pickup effect when chatting or recording sound. The C-side wrist rest of MSI CR650 adopts gradient design, and there is also a Chiclet-style 103 key suspended chocolate keyboard and seamless touchpad. However, the left and right keys on the front of the touchpad feel stiff.

▲ 15.6 inch mirror screen has a resolution of 1366X768.

▲ Dual microphones are distributed on both sides of the camera, and the recording effect is good.

▲ Logo at the bottom of the screen

▲ The C-side adopts a fashionable full-size chocolate keyboard.

Left and right speakers

▲ Shortcut keys above the keyboard.

▲ The surface of the integrated touchpad is also gradually changing color, and there is a lock key in the upper left corner.

▲ Configuration details on the left side of wrist rest

MSI CR650 has three USB2.0 interfaces, 1 HDMI interface, 1 VGA interface, 1 RJ-45 interface and 1 audio and microphone combination interface. In addition, a SD/MMC/MS/xD card reader is built in the front of the fuselage, and a DVD burner is also configured on the right side of the fuselage, which can meet the requirements.

▲ Left interface layout

▲ Right interface layout

▲ The card reader is next to the front indicator light.

▲ The bottom of the fuselage adopts modular design, and the memory, hard disk and CPU are all under the same cover.

▲4400 mAh battery

The distribution of interfaces is also reasonable. The 1 USB ports on the right can be connected to a mini receiver of a wireless mouse or a wired USB mouse, and the network cable port is close to the right side, which will not occupy the space on the side of the fuselage.

E-350 APU processor ++HD63 10 graphics card

MSI CR650 adopts AMD's latest APU product E350, and the CPU core of AMD APU E350 adopts Bobcat architecture, which is based on 45nm technology and has dual cores. The main frequency of this product has reached 1.6GHz, with 128KB first-level cache and 1MB second-level cache, and after integrating the HD63 10 unique display core.

▲ E-350 parameters detected by CPU-Z.

As for the graphics card, as a notebook with APU platform, CR650 naturally adopts the ATI Radium Dragon HD63 10M graphics card built into the processor, which is one of the latest ATI HD6000 series graphics cards supporting DX 1 1, and its performance is equivalent to the current ATI Mobility Radium Dragon HD 5470. According to the information obtained so far, HD63 10M has 80 stream processors, 8 texture units and 4 rasterization units, and supports 12x CFAA anti-aliasing. It supports DX 1 1 and OpenGL 3.2, integrates UVD3 hardware decoding engine, and supports a series of energy-saving technologies such as PowerPlay, PowerXpress and Swithable Graphics.

▲HD63 10 graphics card information

As for the storage system, the CR650 we received comes standard with 2 GB of DDR 31333 MHz memory. For the average business user running a 32-bit operating system, this memory capacity is enough to cope with most mainstream applications and run some large business software applications. For users of 64-bit system, you can upgrade to 4GB memory to improve system performance.

The prototype we received used WD5000BEVT-22A0RT0 hard disk with a capacity of 500GB. This hard disk has a high speed of 5400 rpm, and also supports the SATAII interface. Using SB800 South Bridge, the transmission speed can reach 3.0 GB/s.

In terms of network communication capability, CR650 adopts the collocation of Realtek PCIe GBE wired network card and Realtek RTL8188ce802.11B/G/N wireless LAN wireless network card, which provides a good solution for users. The wireless network card supports 802. 1 1n communication protocol, and the speed can reach 150Mbps. The wired network card supports10/000m connection.

File operation, compression, virus scanning, video conversion test

Through the application tests such as file copying, file compression and decompression, photo batch conversion, virus scanning and video conversion, friends who are concerned about MSI CR650 can understand the performance of the machine more intuitively. In this part of the test, we respectively copied 4766 scattered files with a total size of 5GB and ISO image files with a single file size of 3.76GB from one partition to another, and recorded the time occupied by each partition. Respectively compressing and decompressing two groups of files, and recording the corresponding time consumption; In the virus scanning test, a folder with a total size of 5GB and 4766 scattered files was scanned at the specified location. In the photo batch conversion test, 25 photos with the resolution of 4752x31689 (15 million pixels) were selected, which were converted into photos with the long side of 1024 by the light and shadow magician.

▲ It takes 3 minutes and 37 seconds to copy a 3.67GB single file.

▲ It takes 5 minutes and 08 seconds to copy 5GB scattered files.

▲ It takes 105 minutes and 44 seconds to compress 5GB of 4985 scattered files.

▲ It takes 4 minutes and 40 seconds to decompress a 5GB file.

▲ It takes 1 hour 48 minutes and 23 seconds to compress a 3.67GB file.

▲ It takes 5 minutes 14 seconds to decompress the 3.67GB file.

▲ Virus scanning takes 10 minutes and 16 seconds.

▲ It takes 2 minutes and 23 seconds to convert photos in batches.

▲ Video conversion takes 1 hour, 18 minutes and 29 seconds.

IE9 hardware acceleration and comprehensive performance test can meet the needs of home use.

We used a series of test software to measure the actual performance of this microsatellite CR650. The test contents include Windows Experience Index, IE9 Hardware Acceleration and SYSmark2007 Preview.

▲ System evaluation score 3.8 The processor is still the bottleneck.

IE9 accelerated test

First, we tested software applications that need GPU acceleration. In this test, we chose the latest IE9 browser to test the graphics ability of APU through the fish tank test project of Microsoft official website. We chose the test mode of 100 fish coexisting with 500 fish.

▲IE9 settings support GPU hardware acceleration.

▲ 100 fish test results FPS reached 48.

▲ The FPS of 500 fish test results is 26.

In the test with 100 fish, the average score remained at 48FPS, while in the test with 500 fish, the speed could still reach 26FPS.

▲ Scores of ▲SYSmark2007 Preview Edition

3D Game Test: resident evil 5, Street Fighter 4

Resident evil 5 is the fifth game of this game. This time, the stage of "resident evil 5" is set in a small African country (the story is pure fiction), which is located in an active volcanic belt across Eritrea, Ethiopia and Kenya. At the beginning of the game, the local residents were not infected, but with the outbreak of volcanic activity, the virus gradually spread and turned the local residents into killers like zombies. In the test, we use Capcom official PC performance test software to test, and we use 1024X768 pixel resolution mode to test.

▲ resident evil 5 FPS is 16.3.

▲ The game screen is very slow. It is suggested to reduce the resolution and other special effects to get a smoother speed.

The PC version of Street Fighter 4 is a completely transplanted version of the home computer version, which will correspond to the game functions of Windows Live and support online combat, in-game SMS and instant voice chat. In addition to supporting high-resolution screen output, PC version also provides players with the function of selecting screen rendering style, which is the same as PC version? Ordinary? Beyond the mode, what else? Watercolor? 、? Poster? And then what? Grey ink? These three additional rendering styles. Players can adjust the display effect according to their own preferences in the game setting options. In the test, we used Capcom official PC performance test software to test, and we chose 1280X720 pixel resolution, and the rest settings used the default settings of the game.

▲ Street Fighter 4 test score reached 26.98FPS.

▲ MSI CR650 runs Street Fighter 4 with slow screen.

Battery life, power consumption and calorific value test

The standard batteries of MSI CR650 are 1 1. 1V, 4400mAh and 49Wh. We mainly use Mobile Mark2007 software to simulate major applications such as daily office and multimedia production to comprehensively evaluate endurance. On this product, we only tested high-intensity office links.

▲ The test result of MobileMark 2007 shows that the battery life is 199 minutes.

▲ The battery life of MSI CR650 can meet the basic application of low intensity.

In the test, we turned off the screen saver and hibernation, and set the battery and system to the highest performance mode. In the office environment test, the battery of MSI CR650 provided users with a battery life of 199 minutes, which was close to three and a half hours. Although this achievement is slightly lower than that of other thin notebooks with low power consumption platforms, for a notebook with a screen size of 15.6 inches, the battery life of the same size cannot reach this time. Such excellent endurance performance is inseparable from the low power consumption and high integration APU platform adopted by CR650. From the following power consumption test, we can also see that even under the highest load, the power consumption of CR650 is only 22.8W, which shows that CR650 is still excellent in power consumption control of the whole machine.

Actual power consumption test

We also tested the actual power consumption of this product, and we tested the power consumption of this product in three states. We use UNI-T UT7 1E intelligent digital multimeter as test equipment to measure the power consumption when the power supply is connected but not turned on (non-charging state), the system has been started but has not acted for 5 minutes, but has not been dormant (non-charging state), the system has been started, the processor is fully loaded and the disk is working at maximum throughput (non-charging state).

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Under these three conditions, the power consumption of CR650 is 0.0W, 14.2W and 22.8W, respectively. This test data is at a relatively low level compared with some notebook products with similar configurations on the market. The test data shows that the relative power consumption of this product is lower than the average level of similar products in the market due to its low-power hardware and integrated design, and this power consumption performance has also brought users a relatively long time of use.

Caloric value test

In this testing session, we used the Irma AR852B infrared thermometer AR-852B to test the calorific value of this product. The test mainly measured the temperature of the C surface, bottom surface and radiator of the notebook computer. In the test, we used EVEREST software, selected the system stability test, checked all the items, and conducted the test after 15 minutes. At the same time, we measured the indoor temperature to make readers have a more intuitive understanding of the test data.

heat value

The ambient temperature of Irma AR852B thermometer =22.4 degrees Celsius.

C

Maximum surface temperature

29.8

degree Celsius

C

Minimum surface temperature difference

26.0

degree Celsius

Maximum bottom temperature

37.3

degree Celsius

Minimum temperature difference at bottom

26.6

degree Celsius

Air outlet temperature

30. 1

degree Celsius

▲ The highest temperature of MSI CR650 is 37.3℃, which makes it feel comfortable.