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| Looking for a good benchmark program for my Centris 650. | |
| Posted by: 1200XL M.U.L.E. on 2023-02-11 11:06:06 My Centris 650 is slowly coming together. Last night I got TattleTech 2.59 installed and I could see some specifications on my system. Nice! Now I want to test and benchmark those systems, especially RAM. Can anyone recommend a good benchmarking program that would run my Centris 650 through its paces? Thanks! | |
| Posted by: Snial on 2023-02-11 15:35:49 I'd go for MacBench 3 or 4, for a machine of that era. Or maybe Speedometer. All these are available from Macintosh Garden. I used MacBench 4 to benchtest my PowerBook 1400c/117 (1400cs with 16MB of RAM at the time, now 1400c with 32MB of RAM). http://oneweekwonder.blogspot.com/2022/11/my-new-mac-is-old-mac.html | |
| Posted by: Phipli on 2023-02-11 15:39:48 I use Norton's "System Info". It comes as part of Norton Utilities. Norton Utilities 3.2.1 - Macintosh Garden#1 download: This is the full installation of The Norton Utilities on Disk Copy 6 NDIF disk images. Includes the NUM Emergency Disk. #2 download: Toast image of the German version 3.2.1 of Norton Utilities that came bundled with any Macintosh bought at one of the Gravis stores.
There is an option in the menus that turns on more detail. | |
| Posted by: Byrd on 2023-02-11 18:54:01 I really like Norton's System Info, it does a lot more crunching/processing than other benchmarks seem to do. MacBench is only useful if you download the whole entire CD image and run that. | |
| Posted by: Cory5412 on 2023-02-11 19:24:35 +1 MacBench, 4 - 5 should also work. I've never used 3, but a couple of us have built up a few 4 and 5 results on vtools. The main benefit of the MacBench CD is to (this is going to sound silly) benchmark the CD drive, and for the video playback tests, which are primarily measurements on the CD drive. MB4 at least will run all the other tests without it. If you run it off the image on a hard drive/SCSI replacer or network share, it'll just test the read performance of that volume as if it were a CD drive. | |
| Posted by: 1200XL M.U.L.E. on 2023-02-12 20:59:45 Thanks for the replies, everyone! I downloaded these and another one called TimeDrive. I'll be giving these a try soon. 🙂 | |
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