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Article #697862Re: Ah, the old benchmarks...
From: rri... Ross Ridge
Date: Wed, 24 May 2017 20:08
Date: Wed, 24 May 2017 20:08
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Spalls Hurgenson <spallsh...@gmail.com> wrote: >I wasn't able to get all of them working (3DMark1999, 2000 and - oddly >enough - 2005 - just wouldn't work, but the rest were fine). They're a >fun way of revisiting the glory days of the "Noughties" when graphical >flash was all the rage ;-) I never was into benchmarking but I would occasionally run the old LucasArts "System Checker" to see how fast it thought my CPU was. Trying it now, it gives results in the 4 to 9 GHz range when running it on my i5-750 2.66 Mhz CPU. I even ran it once on a pre-release Itanium box once. Ross Ridge -- l/ // Ross Ridge -- The Great HTMU [oo][oo] rri...@csclub.uwaterloo.ca -()-/()/ http://www.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/~rridge/ db //
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