New laptop seems slower than it should.

brycematheson712

brycematheson712

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About 6 months ago I got a new job and it required me to purchase a laptop. I went to Costco and bought an HP Pavillion for about $800-900 I think it was. However, it came with Vista (which may be the solution to my problem.) and it seems slower than my old Pentium 4 Desktop (running XP).

I went to this website and looked up the benchmarks. My laptop CPU (AMD Turion 64 X2 Mobile TL-60 2.0GHz) got a rating of 736 and says it should be faster than a 3.2GHz Pentium 4 (rating of 491), but it feels SO much slower.

The only conclusion I can come to is this. When I got the laptop home, naturally, I formatted the laptop to get all the crapware off. I restored all the drivers, except for two that I couldn't find (it didn't come with a restore disk). The two drivers I cannot find is for the 'SM Bus Controller' and the 'Coprocessor'. Would these have any major effect on speed? I have looked EVERYWHERE for these drivers.

Please help! It would be greatly appreciated.

If this helps, my laptop model is an HP Pavillion dv9823cl. Thanks.
 
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Well, scooter, you were right, and it's not fair. I've checked that HP site tons of times looking through the drivers. You posted that link and it looks like they just updated it and included nVidia chipset drivers. The remaining two lost drivers were found after the installation and now my system runs quicker than before! I think it was the coprocessor which made the big difference.

Just tonight, I took about 1GB of pictures and video on my digital camera. When I copied it from my Class-6 SDHC card, it transfered from the card to my hard drive at 30mb/s! That's quite a big change from about 3.5mb/s. Thanks a lot, Scooter!
 
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