Cool test I'll try later, sys resourses are down to 30%. I betcha mine will choke after opening all my Office XP programs and Dreamweaver and Power DVD. BTW- My graphics program will be MS Visio Pro, which I just got today. Not really an editing program, since I only have MS Photo Editor, since I dont do much work with graphics.
A challenge for ya'll!!!
Okay. Here's the deal. Complete the following steps:
1.) Start up an MP3 player and start playing a playlist (one song won't be enough)
2.) Load AS MANY programs as you feel you possibly can without your computer exploding (make sure a graphics program is one of them). For NT users this should be a LOT - 9x/Me users need to watch out due to the system resource stacks.
3.) Take screenshots of your process list (you'll need more than one to get everything if you did it right
)
4.) Edit them together into one file under 100k (so you can post it here)
5.) Post it here along with system configuration
6.) Tell how many times your MP3 playlist skipped throughout the process.
Okay, mine skipped ZERO times and my system config is:
AMD Athlon 950MHz
256MB RAM
40GB
8X CDRW
16X DVD-ROM
ATI Radeon 7500 AGP
Turtle Beach Santa Cruz
GVC v.90 modem
Playing music with: Voyetra Turtle Beach AudioStation
Processes: 74 (including some very big programs)
This is a good test to see how well your system is running anyways
1.) Start up an MP3 player and start playing a playlist (one song won't be enough)
2.) Load AS MANY programs as you feel you possibly can without your computer exploding (make sure a graphics program is one of them). For NT users this should be a LOT - 9x/Me users need to watch out due to the system resource stacks.
3.) Take screenshots of your process list (you'll need more than one to get everything if you did it right
)4.) Edit them together into one file under 100k (so you can post it here)
5.) Post it here along with system configuration
6.) Tell how many times your MP3 playlist skipped throughout the process.
Okay, mine skipped ZERO times and my system config is:
AMD Athlon 950MHz
256MB RAM
40GB
8X CDRW
16X DVD-ROM
ATI Radeon 7500 AGP
Turtle Beach Santa Cruz
GVC v.90 modem
Playing music with: Voyetra Turtle Beach AudioStation
Processes: 74 (including some very big programs)
This is a good test to see how well your system is running anyways
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Cool. It's very hard to run much with 9x/Me - even with the best tweaked system. The system gets slow and eventually crash. I could have loaded more if I could find more to load I forgot about Grokster and WMP but that's about it. 3D games are obviously not possible (only one can access the hardware at once)
I forgot about Grokster and WMP but that's about it. 3D games are obviously not possible (only one can access the hardware at once)
I couldnt get a screen shot, I tried it 3 times and windows wouldnt let me take one.
But heres my info anyways,
On Start up sys resources 83%, Norton AntiVirus, Norton Internet Security and Compaq Interactive Keyboard drivers are loaded in the backgroud.
I have Winamp 2.8 running playing 'Let The Bodies Hit The Floor' by Drounding Pool.
Programs open are-
MS Excel 2002
MS Access 2002
MS Word 2002
MS Outlook 2002
MS Power Point 2002
MS Front Page 2002
MS Visio Pro 2002
Corel Word Perfect 8
Corel Quatro Pro 8
Corel Presentations 8
Macromedia Dreamweaver MX
Kazaa Lite 1.71
Ad-Aware Plus 5.83
Dial Up Dialog Box
System Properties
Sys resources- below 1%
Winamp still playing ''Let The Bodies Hit The Floor' no skips and freezes.
I hit Prt Scrn, close all of the MS and Corel Office Programs, go into MS Paint, hit ctrl+v, nothing happened, goto edit, paste is greyed out, repeated process 2 more times and same things occured. I was planning on take a screen shot with everything loaded in the task bar, so I would only have to take one.
Compaq Presario
-WIN98SE
-P3 700MHz
-13GB 7200 RPM HD (10GB and 3 GB factory partitions)
-384 MB SD PC100 RAM
-Creative SBLive 2000
-Compaq 10X DVD-ROM
-Philips 24X12X40X Burner
-HSP v.90 modem (I never heard of HSP before, but its the best damn modem Ive ever used)
But heres my info anyways,
On Start up sys resources 83%, Norton AntiVirus, Norton Internet Security and Compaq Interactive Keyboard drivers are loaded in the backgroud.
I have Winamp 2.8 running playing 'Let The Bodies Hit The Floor' by Drounding Pool.
Programs open are-
MS Excel 2002
MS Access 2002
MS Word 2002
MS Outlook 2002
MS Power Point 2002
MS Front Page 2002
MS Visio Pro 2002
Corel Word Perfect 8
Corel Quatro Pro 8
Corel Presentations 8
Macromedia Dreamweaver MX
Kazaa Lite 1.71
Ad-Aware Plus 5.83
Dial Up Dialog Box
System Properties
Sys resources- below 1%
Winamp still playing ''Let The Bodies Hit The Floor' no skips and freezes.
I hit Prt Scrn, close all of the MS and Corel Office Programs, go into MS Paint, hit ctrl+v, nothing happened, goto edit, paste is greyed out, repeated process 2 more times and same things occured. I was planning on take a screen shot with everything loaded in the task bar, so I would only have to take one.
Compaq Presario
-WIN98SE
-P3 700MHz
-13GB 7200 RPM HD (10GB and 3 GB factory partitions)
-384 MB SD PC100 RAM
-Creative SBLive 2000
-Compaq 10X DVD-ROM
-Philips 24X12X40X Burner
-HSP v.90 modem (I never heard of HSP before, but its the best damn modem Ive ever used
)
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