At 18:04 +1100 25-3-2003, Mark Dorset wrote: >Are there any typical (well accepted as being useful) cpu/graphics >benchmark test utiities that I could do so that I could compare the >difference? Mark - I use the very small application "AltiVec Fractal Carbon 1.1.3" from Dauger Research, which gives you a Gigaflop rating on your computer. My Ti-500 achieves (up to) 1.6 Gigaflops. Recalling that in the old days, one used to think of 1 Gigaflop as being a supercomputer ...... Dauger state "a numerically-intensive parallel graphics application that utilizes the Velocity Engine, Multiprocessing, Carbon ..." http://www.daugerresearch.com/fractaldemos/altivecfractalcarbon.hqx