All your benchmarks are belong to us :)

#1 Palos

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Posted 13 July 2002 - 01:08 AM

Hi there,been a while since I posted here, but now Im back...and brought a cool link for your enjoyment

http://www.3dfxliveson.co.uk/timer/timer.htm

LOL

#2 jdulmage

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Posted 13 July 2002 - 01:46 AM

uhhh, what does that have to do with anything?

One minute he is talking about some 12-year old kid ruining a game, the next he talks about "slowing down a system", yet he is showing us how to speed up a system.

Stupid story.

#3 Jerry Atrik

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Posted 13 July 2002 - 01:56 AM

???

#4 Admiral LSD

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Posted 13 July 2002 - 02:02 AM

I think it's funny. It just goes to show just how insignificant benchmark results are

#5 Jerry Atrik

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Posted 13 July 2002 - 04:47 AM

true, i use em to see if a tweak was better or worse
i liked wintune... simple and stable
it also included graphics so i could check right after i instal the newest nvidia drivers that come out every couple a hours

#6 Admiral LSD

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Posted 14 July 2002 - 01:15 AM

Just out of curiosity, where would I get a program like what he's talking about? I have no intention of cheating in online games (hell, I don't even play games online) I just think it can help me with something.

#7 DosFreak

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Posted 14 July 2002 - 01:53 AM

Quote:

How pi$$ed would you be if you spent weeks/months/years tweaking your system just so you can get that higher score,

How pathetic would your life be if you really did? ;(

#8 Brian Frank

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Posted 14 July 2002 - 04:10 AM

I'll fool with a system a little bit now and then, but I'm not gonna bust my butt to tweak the hell out of it every waking moment. Not that I really have something better to do...

#9 BladeRunner

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Posted 14 July 2002 - 09:48 PM

You want to read about people obsessed with Benchmarks?
Just take a look over at madonion.com

To see people, some apparently grown adults, fighting for "must get 40 more points" or "I need a new rig, this one only pulls in 8k points" is extremely comical.
If I've ever got a spare ten or fiteen minutes I like to browse there forums, I am convinced that all 90% of the people do over there is "play benchmarks" and don't actually use their machines for anything else.

"Roxxz I score 11,000 on 3DMark2001"
"Excellent, nice one, hay you played any good games on your PC recently?"
"What? You can play games on PC's now a days?"

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Posted 14 July 2002 - 11:35 PM

hehe i browse there board every day, but never post. What you say is 100% true, thats exactly how they are.

Most ppl over there seem to be very young though, like there first pc..sorry "rig" shipped with windows 95 or later young