Windrenalin HDD Acceleration Software
by Anand Lal Shimpi on August 9, 1997 1:46 PM EST- Posted in
- Software
Like most of my other hard disk tests, I quickly realized that synthetic benchmarking would not prove to be the best way to illustrate Windrenalin's superb acceleration capabilities, therefore I rounded up 8 well known and popular applications and put them to the test with Windrenalin. I compared load times as well as load times under heavy multitasking environments both with and without Windrenalin loaded to fully illustrate the potential this piece of software has. I tested each program without using Windrenalin, recorded the scores, then completely rebooted the system (to clear any cache) and ran the tests again this time with Windrenalin loaded.
Test Configuration
Processor(s): | Intel Pentium II - 300 |
BIOS Revision: | Megatrends FX83-A |
RAM: | 2 - 32MB 50ns Micron EDO |
Hard Drive(s): | Quantum Atlas II XP34550 |
Busmaster EIDE Drivers: | Intel v3.01 |
OS: | Windows 95 Service Release 2 |
Cooling Configuration: | Enlight 7230
Mid-Tower ATX Case 2 - Secondary Brushless Case Fans OEM Pentium II Heatsink |
Windows 95 Application Load Times
Application | Without Windrenalin | With Windrenalin |
Microsoft Frontpage 97 Editor: | 8.58s | 5.32s |
Microsoft Word 97: | 2.87s | 2.83s |
Microsoft Access 97: | 2.64s | 1.42s |
Microsoft Excel 97: | 1.61s | 1.29s |
Microsoft Powerpoint 97: | 1.70s | 0.68s |
Microsoft Internet Explorer 3.02: | 1.57s | 1.27s |
Netscape Navigator 4.01: | 5.84s | 4.58s |
AOL for Windows 95: | 4.82s | 2.69s |
Windrenalin has definitely proved its point, that it can run your applications better than Windows 95 knows how to. If you think these scores are convincing enough, check out the Multitasking comparison...
Windows 95 Multitasking Application Load Times
To simulate a heavy multitasking (disk intensive situation) scenario I was downloading a 10MB file off of the internet, while copying a collection of files totaling 79.4MB, 81,305.6KB, or 8,325,6934.4 Bytes (a megabyte in this case is equal to 210 kilobytes or 1024KB) from one partition of my SCSI to another, and while running various programs with and without Windrenalin to determine the speed increase it provides under multitasking situations.
Application | Without Windrenalin | With Windrenalin |
Microsoft Frontpage 97 Editor: | 28.16s | 5.68s |
Microsoft Word 97: | 15.51s | 5.63s |
Microsoft Access 97: | 13.30s | 3.66s |
Microsoft Excel 97: | 9.86s | 3.57s |
Microsoft Powerpoint 97: | 9.01s | 3.27s |
Netscape Navigator 4.01: | 10.21s | 5.67s |
The Final Decision
Windrenalin is a must have for any power hungry, speed crazed user, it increases performance noticeably on any system...remember, you can never have too much speed =)
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