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> >> But what ever happened to Dhrystones and Whetstones? That's what I typically > >> used. > > > >These are very CPU/FPU intensive, and *not* systemic. Exactly the kind > >of benchmark upgraders use to justify the $400 upgrade cost. > > > So do you mean they are good or bad? I am a little confused. > Neither good nor bad, just inappropriate for evaluating whole system speed. If your desire for speed is largely to speed up number-crunching apps, then these are what you want. If you're evaluating suitability of a system to run Windows 95, then they are very misleading. The point is that whet- and dhrystones mainly measure the speed of the CPU/FPU/cache part of the machine, and largely ignore bus, video, and disk speed. Thus, they make something like the AMD586 chip - which is fast internally, but slow in talking to the rest of the world - look artificially good. - David