At 10:49 06/03/02 +0000, you wrote:
Lee Skinner wrote:
A few weeks ago, I was mentioning that I was considering a CPU upgrade. I
I have a 1.4GHz Athlon. Please post the PAR you used for your benchmark (and the video mode) and I'll be glad to give it a run and post the times. I'm curious about the result myself.
Pedro
Hi Pedro, a few years ago I took this .par (on a floppy-disk with fractint V.18.2) to buy my now used PC, an Athlon K7-600. The time for the fractal was 2.35 Sec. (under Fractint Version 18.2, Video=f3 and viewwindows=1.8) Can you please test it, as it is, on your machine? Now, under the Ver. 20.02.3 it runs in only 1.42"... here is my old original speedtst.par (again): ******************************************** speedtst { reset=1820 type=mandel center-mag=-0.74909880336762710/+0.05084338424079404/1.304918e+012 params=0/0 float=y maxiter=9000 inside=0 logmap=2178 periodicity=0 viewwindows=1.8/0.75/yes/0/0 colors=000zI0<2>z00<3>m06j07g09<3>W0ET0FP0HM0II0K<3>809506303000<6>21H21\ J31L<3>42V42Y52_<3>63i69i5Gh4Mf<3>2Zb2ab2ca<3>1k_1mZ0oZ0qY0rX0tX0vX0vX<1\ 6>8KG9HF9FE9CDAAC<2>B39C08C09<3>G0GH0II0KL0JO0HS2GV0E<3>h08l06o05<2>z00<\ 4>zT0zY0zc0<2>zt0yy0zu0<3>zZ0zT0zN0<3>z00<3>m06j07g09<3>W0ET0FP0HM0II0K<\ 3>90B708506303000<2>01612913B14D14F<6>39V3AX3BZ<2>4De5Eh4Kg4Of3Sd<3>2ba2\ e`1g`<3>1oZ0pY0rY0tX0vW0vX<16>0KB0H90F80C70A6<2>032000202<3>B0CD0FG0HI0K\ <4>Z0Da0Ce0A<2>o05s04w01y00<3>yN0zS0zY0<3>zt0yy0zu0<5>zN0 } ********************************* Cheers, Guy