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At 05:22 AM 10/31/97 GMT, epbrown wrote: > As for the tests Paul suggests, my own copy of the PCMag benchmarks >is on CD, and since it's incredibly large I think that's the only >format they're available in. Running them would require using an >external CD-ROM which could bias the results. I think it's a good >suite, though, so if anyone disagrees and thinks it wouldn't heard, >cool. I don't mind doing a test that requires a CD, but as you were saying, I think that would have the effect of skewing the test somewhat. I have only 2 options for running the test from a CD. (1) I have an Adaptec PCMCIA SCSI card I can use to run a Pioneer 6-disc changer that has a native speed of 4x. (2) I have a 4x CD drive by "Backpack" that connects to the parallel port. I'd think that the SCSI route would be best, but that 6-disc changer is rather quirky--I don't even use it anymore because it's sort of awkward (i.e. when you first boot up, it goes through *every* disc in the magazine even if there is no disc--its time consuming and annoying--frankly, when I need a CD drive, I find the parallel-based Backpack drive a hell of a lot more convenient). List consensus on which I should use? Also, I'll need to get this CD from someone--I don't have it. Emanuel, would you be kind enough to compile a "short list" of the benchmarks that you and the list think should be done and the locations from where they can be retrieved? And would everyone run these on their 701's and report the results to Emanuel for compilation & aggregation of the results? I've heard some suggestions of the benchmarks to be used--and that's great--I'm just looking for a definitive consensus among the group. I don't want to go through all this and find out a bunch of people are complaining that I used the wrong test and the results are biased... > As for a DOS game, while I've played DOOM on a 701C for over a >year, it's my recollection that the replacement chip (AMD or Cyrix) >don't handle FPU-intensive tasks very well. So that could be seen as >stacking the deck against PEP. Which chip is it that PEP uses in the replacement? And are you telling me that the FPU performance could actually be *inferior* to the stock 486/75 in my 701C? ------- Randal J. Whittle whittle@usc.edu (213) 740-7775 Director, Electronic Commerce Program Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California