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30/06/2001
- Editorial: How We Measure The Speed of Tested Computers? by Saeed Amen
On some of
the computer reviews there is a benchmark. The DJ Voice 2001 Mark, is
measured by timing certain tasks in power demanding applications such
as Wavelab 3.00, Prosoniq Timefactory 1.6, Photoshop 5.0 etc (most of
which are acelerated by a dual processor machine). They're not all the
newest versions of applications, because in many cases users probably
won't be using the newest versions. Hence we hope the benchmark is more
realistic. The benchmark reference machine is a SCSI-IDE based Gateway
G7-600 with a score of 100. For example a machine with a score of 400
would be 4x faster than the benchmark reference machine. It gives a good
indication of the speed of the machines. Other benchmarks in magazine
tend to focus more on office applications, whilst in gamers magazines,
it's the graphics card which takes precedence. Every so often the benchmark
will change. However, in the meantime it's staying the same!
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