QWIKTEST Just run this little bench checker in either Windows or (preferably) DOS. If in Windows, don't have anything else running. It's a 16 bit DOS program suitable for running in plain DOS. 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. 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. 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. Have fun! Art Kopp artsown@epix.net
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