WinTune 98?

leileilol wrote:

WinTune 98?

It's one of the few utils I've tried, but it refuse to run if you have something running in the background.
It lists some xxxxxx.exe files that I cannot kill *bah*

SISOFT SANDRA 2001
http://active-hardware.com/english/misc/sandra.html

3D winBench
http://majorgeeks.com/3D_Winbench_2000_d108.html

Final Reality
http://home.comcast.net/~bushwack/vogons/fr101.exe

3D Winbench 97
http://home.comcast.net/~bushwack/vogons/3dwb97.exe

....
Winstone
Audio Winbench
3DMark 99
Quake 3 timedemos
....

I found a link to a disc image of Winstone and Winbench 96:

http://wwww.archive.org/details/PCMagBenchmark

And here's 3DMark99Max:

http://www.ausgamers.com/files/details/html/1465

Thanks everyone for the links. While I was able to install Winstone96, I was unable to run it in Windows98SE. Winstone begins running fine, then spits out a few errors,

While backing up the PC's registry, Windows returned the following error: The system cannot find the file specified.

Winstone 96 could not back up the Registry. Restart Windows, and if you contine to receive this message, please contact Ziff-Davis Benchmarks Operation.

Winstone 96 failed to start. Correct any problems Winstone 96 report and try starting Winstone 96 again. Choose OK.

The program then shuts down. The copy of Winbench 96 I have seems to work fine in Windows 98SE though.

Does anyone have or know where to obtain Winstone 98/99 or Sysmark 98? These would be useful to the ultimate 686 benchmark comparison.

Anyone have any preferance of 3DMark2001SE over 3DMark99Max for benchmarking socket 7-era processors (from a P75 to a AMD K6-3)?

feipoa wrote:

Anyone have any preferance of 3DMark2001SE over 3DMark99Max for benchmarking socket 7-era processors (from a P75 to a AMD K6-3)?

I think 3dmark99 is the choice for those CPUs.

swaaye wrote:

I think 3dmark99 is the choice for those CPUs.

I was thinking the same thing; just wanted a second opinion. 3DMark2001SE also require DirextX8+.

Answering to the first poster, I find these benchmarks useful for 95-98 hardware,

WINDOWS 9x
SuperPi
Ziff-Davis Winbench96
Ziff-Davis Winbench99
Ziff-Davis 3D Winbench97
WinTune98
Sandra99
PassMark v4.0
3DMark99 Max/Lite
Final Reality
Quake2 Timedemo - "Software" mode
Quake2 Timedemo - "OpenGL" mode
MDK Performance - "Win95" mode
MDK Performance - "Direct3D" mode

DOS
Norton (Symantec) Sysinfo v8.0/8.1
PC Config
PiDOS
Landmark v2.0
Bytemark v2, 32-bit
Roy Longbottom Dhrystone/Whetstone
Speedsys v4.78
Cachechk v4/7
3Dbench
PcpBench
Doom1 Timedemo
Quake1 Timedemo

These are the programs I have decided upon for the 686 benchmark comparison. I've given up (for now) on finding Winstone 98/99 or Sysmark 98. Winstone would have been particularly good for adding an office component to the comparison.

CPUBench v4.0 by C.J. van Wandelen seems OK and certainly has a lot of features to test like Dhrystone/Whetstone, Pi, Lorenz computations, etc. It seems to work well with my P266 MMX, but I haven't yet tested it on a broad range of older CPUs.
http://cpubench.softpedia.com/

Please let me know if there are any essential benchmark programs lacking for a socket 7 benchmark comparison.

3dmark2000 is a good one, 2001se was pretty intensive.

I found an old copy of Winstone 2000 that I had burned, and it was still readable. If anyone is interested in it, PM me.

reuploaded here -->> VOGONS Benchmark archive? <<--