speed testing?

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chuck

Back in the bad old days, a program called SPEED let you test
the processing speed of a PC based on a variety of benchmarks.
SPEED stopped working as processors reached faster speeds.

Can someone please suggest a downloadable program to do
similar testing?

why? Cause I've got an amd 1.5Gz machine that seems (!!) faster
than a P4 2.2 Ghz machine and I'd like to verify.

thanks

chuck
 
chuck said:
Back in the bad old days, a program called SPEED let you test
the processing speed of a PC based on a variety of benchmarks.
SPEED stopped working as processors reached faster speeds.

Can someone please suggest a downloadable program to do
similar testing?

why? Cause I've got an amd 1.5Gz machine that seems (!!) faster
than a P4 2.2 Ghz machine and I'd like to verify.

thanks

chuck
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sisoftsandra
 
For a online type of measurement you could use PCPitStop.Com.
It measures basic operations like disk, memory and CPU and an
overall comparison score. If you don't want to create an account
to save the test scores you can use an Anonymous test. I use this
to get general performance without having to install a resident app.
 
You can't compare AMD and Intel processors based on clock speed. The
clock speed is faster on Intel but the AMD pipeline is shorter, so with
its shorter pipeline the data moves through the pipeline faster and the
AMD chip can process more data in the same clock cycle.

John
 
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