Re: Good CPU benchmark program?


David L. Beem wrote:
Hi Dan,
I have Landmark Speed210. Is that a newer, but still
old, version of Kingston Speed200?
Dunno, but there is a Kingston utility of that version too, and newer
(for the 486 Turbochips)...

Yup, its the same. Its labeled Landmark but when you run it, it says
Kingston.


A problem with CPU speed utilities is that their use is
usually limited to a narrow class of CPUs - 386, 486,
Pentium, Pentium 2, etc. A few days, I tried one on a
Model 80 and it barfed, essentially saying it would
only measure Pentium 4s. Some require an Intel CPU,
a Celeron won't do.
A Celeron is an Intel budget CPU at a few different levels that reduces
or omits the L2 cache, usually at the lowest Front Side Bus (FSB) of a CPU
(Pentium II, Pentium III, or Pentium 4) that can replace it. I am looking
for something measuring from the 286-10 (Mode 25 286, Model 30 286, Model
50/50Z, Model 60) to about the 486SX2-66 (which the 486SLC2-50 with 16Kb
internal cache & some external cache on the Hypertec card should get close
to) level. Something that has been used to measure these PS/2 levels by
others.

Here's my list, FWIW:
Intel CPUID,
CPU-Z,
Snooper
PC Doctor, PC Doctor Advanced,
Intel utilities,
MIPS
WinAudit
QAPlus
Syschk
Seatool/Seagate Disk Diagnostic
Just the CPU, out to the L2 cache. Since I will keep all the rest of
the subsystem the same, it will limit outside effects down somewhat. And
nothing in Windows (unless I would commandline limit it, the base system
with 2Mb RAM would run 386 Enhanced mode with the 486SLC2).
David
David@xxxxxxxxxxxxx

One more: QCONFIG.

These utilities perform several different kinds of evaluation, once
you've got a match between the CPU level, the program and the operating
system. Some just identify the CPU. Some measure the CPU's speed.
Some measure MIPS using Dhrystone and the like. What's your pleasure?

Dan

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