> -----Original Message----- > From: Marlon Moyer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, October 28, 2005 1:31 PM > To: CF-Community > Subject: Tweaking your computer. > > I've been running my PC, a pieced together Athlon 2600, for about a > year now. I haven't done any overclocking or tweaking at all to it. > So the other day, work sent home a backup PC, a 2.6Ghz Dell model. > Out of curiousity, I run benchmarks on both of them. Well, the dell > is smoking my Athlon. So I go on look up stats on several boards and > it seems everyone else's Athlon is smoking my Athlon. So is there > some magic bullet program that I can run that will tell my what's > bogging my system down?
A good first pass is to run the tests at PCPitStop.com. Very superficial, but they'll detect some problems and point in the right direction for others. You should also, of course ensure that the system has the latest drivers, updates and so forth. Next examine what the testing state of the machines are. Does your Athlon run resident processes not found on the other PC? As useful as they are things like IM clients, Steam, anti-Virus software, media servers, mail monitors, etc all consume resources and can skew benchmark results. (The PCPitStop tests have a nice, if simplistic, overview of running processes.) Even tho' systems might be superficially similar their performance can change dramatically depending on how they're used. I'd also do some "real world" benchmarks. Just use a stop watch. Boot. Open a big program. Load a large file. Just see if there performance difference is actually noticeable in practice - you'd be surprised how often it isn't. A good example of this is that some benchmarks actually claim that a Virtual PC is "faster" than the host PC on which it runs. ;^) Jim Davis ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Find out how CFTicket can increase your company's customer support efficiency by 100% http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=49 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:5:178886 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:5 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
