Quake / Linux

Take a look below to the old Quake III scores:

I have been benchmarking using Quake III for more than two years and every time I see a new Quake score I am surprised about the improvement of the video cards and processing performance. Most likely this will be one of the last reviews that will use Quake III benchmarks; I think that we should let the old Quake die. Soon I will switch to several rendering tests which require a lot of CPU and video performance. If you have any suggestions, do not hesitate to share them with me in the forum.

Once again Shuttle AK35GT2R scored better than Abit KX7-333. I ran the test for ten times and the difference between the lower and the higher score was more than 50 seconds.

Linux kernel compilation test will also be replaced in future reviews. The reason why I will do this is because the compilation provides very different results every time we run it so the test can be called unstable. Unfortunately every time I find a benchmark program for Linux I am disappointed by several facts. First, most of them provide inconsistent results. Second, they might not provide representative results for CPU performance, they are dependent on many factors that are out of my control. These benchmarks are good to compare the entire system's performance, but don't tell much about two processors or motherboards. I think I will solve these problems in the following weeks. I'm currently working with several Linux benchmarks which provide better results and I will let you know.