Recently I received an old windows pc, from 1996. With an 8086 syrix CPU, 32 mb ram, and a 2 mb video card, I wasn't expecting huge performance from this computer; however the results so far have been impressive. So much so, I decided to do some tests, to see if this old computer could out-perform my windows 7 computer built last march. The results are by no means completely 100% accurate, but...
The first testFirstly, The pc specs:
windows 95: 166MHZ CPU, 32 MB Ram, 2 MB video card, 1.5 gb harddrive
Windows7: 2.66GHZ CPU, 4 GB ram, 1 TB harddrive.
, as with any computer, the bootup speed was the most important test. The windows 95 computer surprised me here, managing to boot to the desktop in an impressive 21 seconds, whereas windows 7 managed 43. This test was made slightly unfair, due to the windows 7 pc being my main pc, and therefore running all my apps, and having everything loading at startup etc.
The next test is application load times. The windows7 pc clearly wins here, due to it's faster components. A sata harddrive instead of IDE, with an internal data rate of approx 250 mbps. A faster CPU, more, faster ram all help to boost app load times.
Application responsiveness is noticeably different, windows 7 completely outshining 95 at multi-tasking. However, when it comes to running 1 app at a time, the windows 95 machine performed equally well.
There are a few tests I've been unable to perform, many of them due to
the windows 95 computer not currently being connected to the internet;
however, it's handled everything i've thrown at it so far.
The last test was the shutdown test. Here, windows 95 really did
shine, managing to shutdown to the "it is now safe to turn off your
computer" screen in an amazing 9 seconds. The windows 7 pc, probably
due to the amount of applications it needed to shutdown, shutdown in
40 seconds, almost as long as it took to boot.
In conclusion, the windows 95 and windows7 computers both have
performance advantages and disadvantages. I can't honestly say I could
switch to 95 as a primary OS, but it does still work fine and for old
dos games it's perfect. As for windows 7... i've already reviewed
that, so check back through the blog archives!
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