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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!