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Thread ID: 66213	2006-02-15 04:18:00	My system benchmarking... Want to help?	Mike (15)	PC World Chat

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430537	2006-02-15 04:18:00	I'm upgrading my PC, and not sure what to get just yet... So I was wondering if anybody wanted to help by running a small program I've got on their computer and sending me the results... Send me a Private Message (www.pressf1.co.nz) if you're interested, and I'll give you a link to the program, and some instructions. Once your done send the info back to me and I can then graph the performance of different machines, and hopefully figure out which path to go down :) Cheers, Mike.	Mike (15)
430538	2006-02-15 04:45:00	will the program be mac compatible :D	plod (107)
430539	2006-02-15 04:53:00	Will the program be a keylogger?	ninja (1671)
430540	2006-02-15 06:11:00	will the program be mac compatible :DAh, no :) Will the program be a keylogger?Definitely not. It's just a program that calculates Pi to however many decimal places and produces a report. My idea is that if I can get the program to run on a number of different PCs with different CPUs then I can take a look at the results and see if I'm swayed to any CPU or not. Not very scientific, but it's the way I want to do it ;) Mike.	Mike (15)
430541	2006-02-15 06:16:00	I remember about 1980 there was a similar test being run on various machines around the world. It calculated prime numbers in a Basic programme. It was a topic on one of the newsgroups for some months. I think Cray supercomputers came up with figures like .003 seconds, whereas some minis gave about 1800 secs. Microcomputers had to have the number of iterations cut down to get reasonable times. In Byte magazine (I think) , Steve Ciarcia (the Circuit Cellar man), wrote up a project he made. It was a "supercomputer" built with a number of 6502 micro chips (as used in Apple II) running in parallel. It calculated pi. :D Now IBM's biggest super uses thousands of Pentiums.	Graham L (2)
430542	2006-02-15 06:17:00	So....your buying a comp to do nothing but calculate that number?	Metla (12)
430543	2006-02-15 06:27:00	I remember about 1980 there was a similar test being run on various machines around the world. It calculated prime numbers in a Basic programme. It was a topic on one of the newsgroups for some months. I think Cray supercomputers came up with figures like .003 seconds, whereas some minis gave about 1800 secs. Microcomputers had to have the number of iterations cut down to get reasonable times.That's what gave me the idea... A guy a work wrote a small VB app that calculates Primes between 100000 and 100200, and it's run whenever we get new PCs so we can compare them to other PCs in the organisation. I thought I'd take it a step further and do a range of tests (based on number of decimals in pi) and plot the results. Mike.	Mike (15)
430544	2006-02-15 06:28:00	So....your buying a comp to do nothing but calculate that number?Yes :thumbs: Mike.	Mike (15)
430545	2006-02-15 06:31:00	In August 1995, the calculation of pi up to 4,294,960,000 decimal digits was succeeded by using a supercomputer at the University of Tokyo. The program was written by D.Takahashi and he collaborated with Dr. Y.Kanada at the computer center, the University of Tokyo. This record should be the current world record. ( Details is shown in the windows help. ) This record-breaking program was ported to personal computer environment such as Windows NT and Windows 95 and called Super PI. In order to calculate 33.55 million digits, it takes within 3 days with Pentium 90MHz, 40MB main memory and 340MB available storage.	Metla (12)
430546	2006-02-15 06:38:00	That's purely bizarre. Why not just read a couple of reviews from Tom's hardware or Anandtech or HardOCP or something. The test will be worthless as you have no control over the conditions. "Oh I ran the test while compressing an MP3 album and defragging my hard drive"	ninja (1671)
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