Speed Test?

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Can anybody recommend an application that will test the speed of
an XP system - without considering any IP connection - just the
C: drive?

The use would be to run the test every so often after a fresh
build - to see if the system is still running more-or-less as
fast as it was on Day 1.
 
(PeteCresswell) said:
Can anybody recommend an application that will test the speed of
an XP system - without considering any IP connection - just the
C: drive?
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You mean read/write speed? HDTune
http://www.hdtune.com/

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Per dadiOH:
You mean read/write speed? HDTune
http://www.hdtune.com/
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I was looking for something more comprehensive - and dumbed down.

So far, I've stumbled upon "Performance Test" - which runs a
whole suite of tests (CPU, Graphics, Memory, Disk, CD...) and
then boils them all down to a single number that even I can
comprehend.

Only problem is that it seems to hang on the 3-D graphics test
when run on my daughter's PC.... and it seems like all tests have
tb run to get the dumbed-down number.
 
(PeteCresswell) said:
Per dadiOH:

I was looking for something more comprehensive - and dumbed down.

So far, I've stumbled upon "Performance Test" - which runs a
whole suite of tests (CPU, Graphics, Memory, Disk, CD...) and
then boils them all down to a single number that even I can
comprehend.
Click to expand...

Handy program but for comparing one computer to another, not for seeing if
your computer is the same as before...given a lack of hardware change or
failure it will be.
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Only problem is that it seems to hang on the 3-D graphics test
when run on my daughter's PC.... and it seems like all tests have
tb run to get the dumbed-down number.
Click to expand...

You can run the tests individually.

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dadiOH
____________________________

dadiOH's dandies v3.06...
....a help file of info about MP3s, recording from
LP/cassette and tips & tricks on this and that.
Get it at http://mysite.verizon.net/xico
 
(PeteCresswell) said:
Per dadiOH:

I was looking for something more comprehensive - and dumbed down.

So far, I've stumbled upon "Performance Test" - which runs a
whole suite of tests (CPU, Graphics, Memory, Disk, CD...) and
then boils them all down to a single number that even I can
comprehend.

Only problem is that it seems to hang on the 3-D graphics test
when run on my daughter's PC.... and it seems like all tests have
tb run to get the dumbed-down number.
Click to expand...

http://www.passmark.com/download/pt_download.htm

Did you try the Advanced:3D graphics menu ? As far as I can tell,
that's for manual testing. Presumably the program decides for itself,
whether DX10 is supported or not. During installation, it tries to
install several DirectX packages.

You could try running "dxdiag" and see if all is well or not.

Or, see if you can run a separate graphics benchmark like this one.
It's a 40MB download, and one of the smaller ones in the 3DMark series.

http://majorgeeks.com/3Dmark_d99.html

I tried running Process Monitor, while PerformanceTest was running, but it
doesn't seem to keep registry settings for itself. It does
plenty of registry queries, but mainly for the hardware it
thinks it's testing.

Paul
 
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