Quote: "125ms on Raven's test.
Running Windows Vista Home Premium, AMD 3800+ 2.4GHz, 940MB RAM, ATI 1950 GPU <I believe>"
See here is why this test is complete pointless.
As the system I coded that on achieves 235-250ms
Vista Ultimate, Athlon64 X2 3200+ (2.0GHz), 768MB RAM, GeForce 6100
Yet with the exact same test, I was able to get 65ms on
Vista Ultimate, Core 2 Duo (1.6GHz), 2GB RAM, Radeon HD 2900 XT
I mean you could argue, that "well you have more ram and the core 2 duo is a better chip".. which yeah quite undeniable however if I swap over the HD-2900 to my internet system it drops from 250ms to a staggering 96ms
just changing the graphics card, despite this test that should be entirely processor based; lack of sync and taking up so little ram it should be inconsiquencial.
if you want to really test someones performance, use C++/Pascal/ASM as DBP just can't do it.