SiSoft Sandra 2003 out

[Admiral]

Standard (shareware) downloads

(I get a 404 error, maybe site's to busy or they haven't uploaded it yet ?)

Buy the Pro version

[WyWyWyWy]

try this link

http://www.sisoftware.co.uk/index.php?location=sware_dl_x86

I'm downloading

[WyWyWyWy]

It is alright.
More help is available, but it favors AMD more than Intel.

[RichL]

Whenever I run SiSoft Sandra, it always seems to tell me my rig is slower than the benchmark standard.
Especially on HDD tests.

My second rig runs 4x 9.1gb Seagate Cheetah 10krpm SCSI-160 HDDs in RAID-0. Sandra 2002 scores it 25k, which is *just* faster than their listing for a single stock SCSI-320 HDD.

All its really worth to me is so I can judge if tweaks on an individual machine have made any difference. Useless for cross-PC comparisons.

[Chrono_Wanderer]

thanks Admiral. d/l it, great program, but still the same darn interface.

now richL brought that up, it happens to me too...

more tweakings to do...

[Paulr]

I've more or less given up on using Sandra as a HD benchmark tool.
I'm running a RAID 0+1 array on a Promise TX2 controller.
When this controller first made an appearance various sites showed that this controller running RAID 0+1 was almost (within a couple %) as fast as a standard RAID 0 array.

However Sandra benches my array at about half the marks of a single ATA100 7200rpm HD - something is just not right there.

The memory & CPU benchmarks check out OK though.

[Chrono_Wanderer]

my P4 1.8A's cache benchmark test is worse than a P41.8 willimate's cache in the <256K cache range, even when i tweaked the 512K look in WinXP through the registry

[Technoid]

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