Weird benchmark programs

[Thomas @ Kustom]

OK, we all know there's 3DMARK2001SE(build blah blah) to benchmark your computers gaming performance etc.
there's sandra to burn your cpu to the max etc.

But are there any more unusual benchmarking utils out there? like benchmarking how clean your desktop is, or how fast your recycle bin works?

Where are the programs that benchmark how accuratly the user can press the "X" button to close programs huh?

Anyone got any weird programs for odd stuff like this?

[Thomas @ Kustom]

WAOW, ok it was half a joke but look at this article.

Chess as a benchmark
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posted 12:33pm EST Thu Jun 27 2002 - submitted by Sander Olson
NEWS
The German site Heise has started a live chess competition between Athlon and Pentium 4 systems. The competition serves as a sort of performance benchmark. The systems are running chess AI programs, and the systems are a dual Pentium 4 Xeon 2.4GHz and a dual Athlon MP 2000+. With each configuration, about 55 matches are played over a 24 hour period. Chess gives a fairly good indication of a CPU's horsepower, as chess AI programs make massive use of number crunching. Moreover, the random nature of chess would make it difficult to have a general purpose CPU "cheat" on the benchmarks, since these AI programs are not designed for a particular CPU. Finally, future chess AI programs will allow the CPU to search a greater number of potential moves, so these tests could be performed on future CPUs regardless of how fast they become. There's additional coverage on this at Slashdot.

[Graeme*Kustom*]

I came up with MoleyMark2002 after watching Moldiver cycling through his music collection

MoleyMark involves having as many media apps (winamp, musicmatch, WMP etc) open as possible and having them all play simultaneously and keep skipping through as many songs and videos as quickly as possible. It's a pretty thorough test

[ling_thing]

i tend to use prime95 to test stability of a system
it does intensive number crunching and has a torture test feature designed to well torture your processor
if that can run for 24 hours without any errors then your system is more than likely stable
but maybe 48hours to be safe
hehe


its hard to admit but ive done a porn benchmark
how many porn streams could be run at once over 512 ADSL
this was a drunken benchmark at a mates LAN
think we had 13 before i ran out of space on the screen
lol

[Thomas @ Kustom]

What ever you say ling, I'll bet you do that benchmark pretty regularly 8)

[GTi]

Borgmark 2002....If you try to rip and encode to MP3 4 CD's at once. The Borg does it at 192bit rate in 19 minutes each CD 70min+ playtime.

You do however need 4 CD Roms.

[Graeme*Kustom*]

think we had 13 before i ran out of space on the screen

You'll go blind.

[howesey]

There is always, VIDEOMARK2000!! :D

There is seti@home too. It's a piece of software designed for the AOL overclockers amongst us.


http://howesey.blargoc.co.uk/funny2/images/images/gfxcard.jpg

I wonder how you test this?

[ 17 September 2002: Message edited by: howesey ]

[Kynoch]

Think the speed of that GPU is measured in RPM and not Mhz hehe.

[scottie]

to overclock that board all u need to do is give some amphetimines to the hamster :D

ie ' I got 50000 3d marks (8 grams of speed in hamster)' sort of thing :D

or 'I got 19000 3d marks out of it just by feeding it 4 cans of red bull' :D

[Welly]

Originally posted by Graeme*Kustom*:
<STRONG>I came up with MoleyMark2002 after watching Moldiver cycling through his music collection

MoleyMark involves having as many media apps (winamp, musicmatch, WMP etc) open as possible and having them all play simultaneously and keep skipping through as many songs and videos as quickly as possible. It's a pretty thorough test</STRONG>

This is a good test.. yeah.. a multiprocessor BeOS(RIP!) machine was demoed to have 24 25fps videos playing at once with no dropped frames or anything.

Poor beos.. I loved it! :(