No, Clint ... the information below is just a small part of what Pitstop gives. What you see below is 19KB of info; what Pitstop gives gave was 207KB of info (big difference, and that's after removing what was unnecessary). However, if you say it's information is not all accurate, that's another matter. What might be bothering me is that I don't know what to do with all the information; even what you see below is more than I need (difference between how a doctor reads a diagnosis and how a patient reads it). Thanks for the load of options you gave in your response ... Harold
> - ----- Original Message ----- <snip> I have a Intel Pentium III, 533 MHz 255 MB system RAM, Intel(R) 810e Chipset Graphics Driver (DC133 FSB133) PV 2.1, 800x600 resolution, 16 bits/pixel, and Windows 98 4.10.2222 A ... among a zillion other statistical titbits. > What I really want to know is how I interpret all the information provided. I'll send it to you if you give me some feedback ... Harold > > ------------------------------ > From: "Support-OrpheusComputing.com" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I've found the HD information a bit lacking, it doesn't seem to be too accurate. > The info you provided below, is just that, "information". :-) It tells one of what they should already be aware. Maybe you only used the "information" area, but there are testing/benchmark areas too for the HD, memory, video card, etc. It is in this HD area where I've found the info to not be quite accurate according to benchmarking programs. > If you really want to test, you need to look for "SANDRA", "HDTach" (or "HD Tach"), "AIDA32" (the OLD one from the OLD website since it has the HD test plugin module), to name a few. These are free (HD Tach for XP is not), and (except for AIDA32) can be easily found in a search. You may be able to find a cached page of AIDA32.hu, if not then you may be able to find another site that has it. The replacement for it is "Everest" which is ok, but like I said it does NOT include the HD testing module. > Some other free ones are "Fresh Diagnose" (very buggy, problematic and not accurate), "PC Wizard" (pretty much the same), "DiskBench" (Ok, but very inconsistent results and for HD's only), and I THINK "ATTO" may be free, I can't recall and it's only for HD's. It's a pretty decent one. > If you want the best ones, "PCmark", "WinBench", and I can't remember the other one right now. These you had to pay for, don't know if that's still the case. These will test *EVERYTHING*, but do NOT include "informational" portions the way Sandra and AIDA32 are which also test things, but not video. > Good, dedicated (specific hardware component specific) programs are "3Dmark" (video), "SpecViewPerf" (can't recall if that's only video or not), and the best for testing memory stability (which happen to be free) are "Memtest 86", and M$ has a similar one called "Windows memory diagnostics, (both have to be run from DOS from a floppy). For CPU, there's "Super Pi" (that's "pie") which as the name implies calculates Pi, "Prime95" (calculates prime numbers), and "CPU Stability Test" to name a few. > There are many others, these are some that came to mind since I use them to test PC's. (It's killing me that I can't remember the name of that other good one!!) - -Clint ============= PCWorks Mailing List ================= Don't see your post? Check our posting guidelines & make sure you've followed proper posting procedures, http://pcworkers.com/rules.htm Contact list owner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Unsubscribing and other changes: http://pcworkers.com =====================================================
