Bench Mark Day!
Prize drawing held at 2:00
No more entries accepted for the prizes.
If so, you need to enter our Benchmark contest.
Come to Computer & Software Outlet's CPU shoot out!
The event was held May 5th, 2001.
A representative from Intel attended.
We had a live remote broadcast from WSJS radio station.
There was food and prizes during the Saturday event.
This is a copy of the original advertising and results as held in 2001.
Come by computer & software outlet for "Benchmark Day" it will be held Saturday May 5th from 10:00 to 4:00. 2000
Computer & Software Outlet will be holding a contest to see who has the fastest computer in town.
If you think you have a fast computer or just want to compare it to the rest of the computers in town you need to enter the areas first ever computer benchmark contest.
There will be free food during lunch and you may win one of the many prizes awarded that day.
Even if yours is not the fastest computer in town you will be eligible for one of the many prizes awarded that day.
Computer & Software Outlet will hold random drawings from all local entries for some of the prizes.
Other prizes will be awarded for the fastest and slowest computer.
Computer & Software Outlet is one of the few companies able to call themselves an Intel Premier Provider.
We have on staff an Intel Certified Integration specialist and an Intel Certified networking specialist.
To help show support Intel will have a factory representative on site during the contest to answer some of your questions about computers.
If your computer is not as fast as you like it you can check it in at the service department and let them upgrade it for you.
We specialize in upgrades for your system .
Our most popular items are hard drive upgrades and RAM upgrades.
Our Hard Drive Price Page
Our RAM Memory Price Page
Customers are always telling us
that we have the lowest RAM prices around. Computer & Software Outlet, located beside Salem
Salvage & Surplus One block behind the McDonald's at the corner of
Jonestown Road and Highway 421 North in Winston-Salem. Or call 336-765-1830. A
benchmark program is available on our web site. Click below to try the benchmark. Read the
next paragraph before you start. http://www.compoutlet.com/cso/benchmark/final/speedy.exe Try
running this one first. If you run it more than once the results of the later tests may be
wrong. You may have to close the browser and run the test again. Try not to have other programs running to get the best
results. It will say that we are not a known source but that is OK since
you know who we are. It will ask you to email the result to us. If you get error messages
saying you don't have the required DLL files we have an installable version of the
program at the bottom of this page. You can download the benchmark program and run it on your
computer at home and then email the results to computer & software outlet.
We will need the following:
Your name:
System type: Speedy results:
And email address:
You will then send the result back to us by email. Example: Your Name: Speedy Gonzalez System type: Pentium III 700 256 megs of RAM Speedy Results. 1232 And email address in case you win a prize. To email us
the results use the email address provided in the benchmark
program. Type in the results that you obtained from the speed
test program. The answer is encoded so we will know if you changed your
results when we enter the speed into our decode program. (So be
honest.) Anyway prizes will be awarded randomly, so don't
cheat. Then click send. You may have to go into your email program and click
send receive email to make sure it is sent. Contest ends May 5th 2001.
We will post the results as soon as possible. Please read
the complete details on the website. Read all of
the instructions before you load this 2 meg
file. http://www.compoutlet.com/cso/benchmark/final/speedtest.exe
This is the
full install version.
Don't run this one if the one above works, they are
the same program this one just gives you the dll files if you don't have them.
This is the full install version. It
unzips itself into a temporary
directory called C:\SPEEDTEST You can run the program by right clicking on
the start Icon at the bottom left of your computer and choose explore.
Browse to the
c:\speedtest directory and click on speedy.exe the program should then run for you.
If you choose to install the
program we are assuming you have enough computer knowledge to complete this task. If you uninstall the program I would
keep the shared Dll files because many other programs use them. Do not run
the full install package if the limited package runs OK. They are the same
program and will give the same results. Prizes will
be given out on a random basis. You don't have to be the fastest to
win. If you run it more than once the results of the later tests may be
wrong. You may have to close the browser and run the test again. About the benchmark,
this is a C language program that does the following:
It does one 128-bit wide floating point addition.
It then Does one 128-bit wide floating point subtraction.
Then it does one 128-bit wide multiply.
It will do this for 5
seconds keeping track of the number of times it completes this function.
The number you get is how many times your machine can do
approximately 10,000 of these calculations. Of course we encode the result
that you see to verify the results you submit are official. This benchmark does not measure Video
Speed, Hard Drive Speed, or anything else not mentioned in the paragraph
above. The limiting factor on the speed of a computer is called the bottleneck. This is the point of the computer that
all other processes have to wait. A bottleneck is usually one of the following areas. 1. The speed that the hard drive can move data in and out of
the computer. 2. The speed that the computer can move data across the
System Bus. I.E. Video or RAM. 3. The speed that the computer moves data over the network,
or modem on the internet. These are usually what cause slow performance. It is not usually the CPU that causes the bottleneck. Since we wanted a CPU benchmark we chose instructions that did not
rely on these areas. Intel® Pentium® 4 Processors have 144 new
instructions in the CPU This enables them to perform the calculations mentioned
above in one instruction per calculation as compared to the Pentium® 3 which took
many instructions for each step. The results will be shown in the
comparison table below. The Intel® Pentium® 4 Processor in the 423-pin Package socket
with Intel Netburst™ micro-architecture, it still maintains the tradition
of compatibility with IA-32 software. The Intel NetBurst
micro-architecture features include hyper-pipelined technology, a rapid execution engine, a 400 MHz
system bus, and an execution trace cache. The hyper-pipelined technology doubles the pipeline depth in the
Pentium 4 processor, allowing the processor to reach much higher core
frequencies. The rapid execution engine allows the two integer ALUs in the
processor to run at twice the core frequency, which allows many integer
instructions to execute in 1/2 clock tick. The 400 MHz system bus is a quad-pumped bus running off a 100 MHz
system clock making 3.2 GB/sec data transfer rates possible. The execution trace cache is a level 1 cache that stores
approximately 12k decoded micro-operations, which removes the decoder from the
main execution path, thereby increasing performance.
Results as they come in are posted here.
| Speed | System Type | Name | ||||
| 351 | 486 DX/2 66Mhz 8MB RAM | Eric Scarlett | ||||
| 2970 | AMD K6-2 350 | Andy Goodman | ||||
| 3420 | K6-2 450 64 MG | James Roberts | ||||
| 3483 | Pentium II/300Mhz Laptop | John Flack | ||||
| 4554 | K6-2 500 Mhz, 384 Mb | Jerry W. Cox | ||||
| 6651 | Pentium III 450 512 megs of RAM | Dan Dugan | ||||
| 7452 | PIII 450 | Andy Goodman | ||||
| 7848 | Pentium III 500 PC800 RDRAM | Keith R Howard | ||||
| 8019 | Pentium III 500 128 megs of Rdram | Gary Darr | ||||
| 8613 | Amptron mother board w/ Intel III 555 / 128 | Douglas Lee | ||||
| 8703 | Pentium III 550 - 128 megs | Bill Linthicum | ||||
| 9018 | Dual Intel Xeon 500 MHz | Siteserver | ||||
| 9099 | Pentium III 550 MHz | George Kam | ||||
| 9630 | Pentium III 600Mhz, VC820 MB, 256M Ram | Jeffrey K. Rogers | ||||
| 9756 | Custom Athlon 700 | Mike Nelson | ||||
| 10269 | Celeron 633 | Kathy Goodman | ||||
| 11007 | Notebook 750 MHz IBM Thinkpad | Patrick Regan | ||||
| 11547 | Dual Pentium III 733 Mhz | Mark Church | ||||
| 11691 | Dual Pentium Xeon 700Mhz 2G RAM | Eric Scarlett | ||||
| 12312 | AMD Athlon 900, 192Megs Windows ME | Mike Grogan | ||||
| 12474 | AMD/750 256ram | Mike Scarlett | ||||
| 12573 | AMD750 256Ram Epox Board | Mike Scarlett | ||||
| 12735 | 800 intel p3 | Mark McNabb | ||||
| 12987 | PIII 800 256 Rammbus | Cliff Durham | ||||
| 13122 | AMD 900Mhz 256MB RAM | Tony Scarlett | ||||
| 13158 | Thunderbird 900/ 384MB PC100 RAM | Wasiq Ahmed | ||||
| 14094 | Machine: Home build Athlon 800 / 1000 | Chad Culbertson | ||||
| 14139 | Intel Pentium 833 MZ | Barbara Crouse | ||||
| 14292 | Celeron 566@875 256mb ram | Tom LaPlant | ||||
| 14319 | 1GHz Thunderbird/ Asus A7V133 512MB | Matt Melvin | ||||
| 15561 | Dual Pentium III, 933 MHz | Rob Hampson | ||||
| 16497 | Pentium III 1Ghz 256 megs | Andy Goodman | ||||
| 16578 | Dual Pentium III 1.0Ghz | Eric Scarlett | ||||
| 17208 | AMD K7 1.2GHz w/256mb ram | Jon Vickers | ||||
| 19539 | AMD Athlon 1333 mHz, Windows 2000 | Tom Talbert | ||||
| 19719 | AMD 1200 @ 1400 256meg SDRAM | Mike Schiltz | ||||
| 21357 | Athlon 1.5Ghz | Stephen Vickory | ||||
| 42489 | Pentium 4, 1.4 GHz, Windows 2K, self-built | Rob Hampson | ||||
| 44568 | Pentium 4 / 1.4Ghz 128 megs of RAM | Dan Dugan | ||||
| 47925 | Intel Pentium 4 w/98se 1.7 GHz | Dan Zerbs | ||||
| 60363 | P4 1.9GHz with 1GB PC800RDRAM | Kevin Hamill | ||||
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