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- QWIKTEST
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- Just run this little bench checker in either Windows or (preferably)
- DOS. If in Windows, don't have anything else running.
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- It's a 16 bit DOS program suitable for running in plain DOS.
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- As the screen message says, the program will exercise your memory
- bus and math coprocessor doing thousands of complex multiplications,
- divisions, adds and subtracts ... and thousands of memory read -
- writes to arrays of floating point numbers.
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- I set the number of FFT repeats at 300 in order to test a variety of
- machines in use today. My AMD Duron running at 1.8 ghz takes 2 seconds.
- My Intel PIII 900 mhz machine takes 3.6 seconds. Many older machines
- will take considerably longer, so be patient. There is no way to end
- the test short of Ctrl - Alt -Del.
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- Bench tests of this kind simply offer a means of relative comparison.
- This particular kind of test is most useful for gauging the number
- crunching power for those interested in engineering, science, and math
- applications. However, many games require fast number crunching, and
- this kind of test, along with tests of video frame rates acheivable,
- make good benchmarks for comparison.
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- Have fun!
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- Art Kopp artsown@epix.net
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