Thread: Benchmarking apps for N900 - How fast is your N900?
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Bingley Joe is offline Bingley Joe
2010-04-11 , 08:03
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Originally Posted by craftyguy View Post
Just curious, why would you want to disable sound? Unless it's not very common to play the game with sound, you'd get a much more rounded stress test (of all system components) if you ran a benchmark of a game with the same settings as a normal play session.

It's like doing time trials on a racetrack with racing tires, and then swapping them out for your street tires on the day of the race :P
Sorry -- that's a holdover from my PC benchmarking days, and probably doesn't really matter very much when applied to the N900.

The theory was that different sound cards/drivers could affect the benchmark in unpredictable ways (maybe because of sound being synced to video in some cases ??), and so leaving it enabled would cause the demo to play back in a way that wouldn't accurately reflect the capabilities of the CPU/GPU, which is what people were generally most interested in measuring.

On a closed device like this one, that's probably not much of a concern, but I decided to list the command anyway just in case. You know.. in the interest of science