I usually run through these, though these synthetic ones aren't great choices:
3DBench
Final Reality
3DMark99
3DMark2000
3DMark2001

I forgot the name of the OpenGL-based 3dmarkish.

Thanks.. For an apples-to-apples comparison would it be better to run one 3DMark on all 3 rigs, or choose the one closest to the rigs "date"?

You can't compare the scores of different 3dmark versions.

Other ideas:
Wintune
CPUMark
Winbench

I uploaded some of my old Windows bench archive. Some of these seem hard to find now.
http://www.mediafire.com/?a8q43pxe1w386

I forgot the name of the OpenGL-based 3dmarkish.

I think leileilol suggested DroneZMark

Quake2 timedemo? I think the demo has this feature too.

Speedsys is a nice tool as well.

Might this be of help?
http://www.active-hardware.com/english/benchm … /benchmarks.htm

I use:

Synthetic:
- Checkit 3.0
- PMIPS
- Sysinfo
- Speedsys
- 3DBench

Game:
- F1GP game (Adelaide track - everything ON, press O for processor occupacy before the start of the race - its consistent real world CPU benchmark)
- Quake 1 v1.08 Timedemo

Windows 3.10/3.11:
- Winbench 3.1
- Wintach

I guess I know where to start now! I like the F1GP suggestion since I do a similar thing to test performance with my modern setups using rFactor at the Phoenix track maxed out - a good multi-platform test. Any upgrades/tweaks and I check them at the track too...

However - no sooner than I thought I'd embark on a lazy Sunday of benchmarking the W98/P-3 1.4 had a major OS meltdown booting up this morning [or rather failing to boot up] so I need to T/S that first. It'll be a little tricky since my fallback C images parked on D are all curiously corrupted when I tried an easy image restore. Luckily I have 2 backups of everything on externals so after brunch I'll see what I can do.

Not sure what the boot up problem is that may have caused all this.

I was thinking, FRACTINT would make a good benchmark program as well. We could make a preset to render a complex fractal image at 2048x1536 and see how long it takes. A bit like SuperPi, but for DOS. And by specifying to use floating point instead of integer math this could be used to measure FPU performance as well.

unfortunately the problem with Rig 3 is more trouble and I'm in full tear down mode right now. Eliminated CPU, slotket, Tualtin adapter, ram, audio card, usb2 card as culprit. Which leaves motherboard [Abit so def possible but no bad caps visible], and P/S [again possible as it's a cheap Diablotek part.

However the hard drive definitely got fubar'd, but since loading an OS backup image to another drive also failed I doubt the HD is the main problem.

I'll try another P/S, if that doesn't do the trick good old Abit is left holding the bag - unless it's an rig assembly issue which is why it's getting the tear down now. Or later, it's pretty nice out right now.

More later.

This is how Putas benchmarked the games on his website:
http://www.vintage3d.org/games.php

vetz wrote:

This is how Putas benchmarked the games on his website:
http://www.vintage3d.org/games.php

I beg your pardon, who is Putas, the owner of that site?

Edit: Ah, yes, I see now. This man's been around on Beyond3D for ages, glad to see he got to make such an awesome site. Thanks for the link, vetz.

yes - thanks for the link.

Benchmarking is on hold as I complete the Voodoo5 re-build. I think I'm up against a dying-but-not-dead motherboard, and have another lined up...

That guy even tests the obscure ones extensively. Putas is just a name- not a bunch of whores doing swapping cards 😀

You may try also Tom's 2Dbench from toms hardware. Theres stated that it require win2k, but i tried it on win98se and it works there too. Dunno how it like w95.

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/2d-window … gdi,2547-5.html

Download here....

http://www.tomshardware.de/download/Tom2D,0305-26150.html

Thanks - I'd prefer a test that runs 95/98 for apple-to-apples comparison of the retro stable. I'm currently working through a rebuild of the W98/Voodoo box that got hosed pretty bad last weekend. Will be testing a replacement VA6/Tualatin 1.4, a P4 2.8 system I'm piecing together right now, and a quick/easy Pcchips M810L/Duron 1.6 setup I had in storage.

I was just using an Athlon 1.1 based rig to test/re-test the various hardware components to make sure I know what is ok and what may not be.

No benchmarking to report, but solid progress on Tualatin re-build after the meltdown. A flaky mobo seems to have been the problem though swapped out the PS as well just to be sure. Replaced the the hard drive, and the MX300 with a TBS Montego II Vortex2. There's a bit work setting up the data drive and general fussing so benchmarking the systems will probably be a while.

And as I mentioned before, in all the excitement I also picked up an interesting looking ASUS P4 mATX board that has a 3.3v universal agp slot - and a Northwood 2.8ghz to go with it. I'm curious to see how RW performance compares with the Tui 1.4 and the Duron 1600+. Hopefully sometime next week I'll be able to get some testing in.

leileilol wrote:

That guy even tests the obscure ones extensively. Putas is just a name- not a bunch of whores doing swapping cards 😀

Lol, and I had always thought his nick meant b!tches 🤣

Interesting. I like his site quite a lot, although he should replace that flash based photo gallery 🙁