wolf2009

What REAL-WORLD benchmarks can one do, that can be easily be done by everybody else.

I was thinking copy some files from a drive to the same drive using this program
http://nodesoft.com/DiskBench/Default.aspx

Another benchmark could be muxing two 4 GB AVI files in Virtualdub.

What do you guys think ?

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Angmaar

You could measure how fast programs open such as Firefox or word.

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wolf2009

that would change every time due to superfetch. plus it will be in milliseconds, which would be difficult to record manually with a stopwatch without a software that times the opening time of such programs.

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Angmaar

You could test boot speeds too.

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wolf2009

ya that can be done, how about this application for that

http://www.ghacks.net/2008/05/05/windows-boot-timer/

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