Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!snorkelwacker!bloom-beacon!eru!luth!sunic!tut!ph62303 From: ph62303@tut.fi (Hartoma Petri Juhani) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: Free Utilities Message-ID: Date: 21 Mar 90 13:41:10 GMT References: <72@demott.COM> Sender: News@tut.fi Organization: Tampere Univ. of Technology, Finland. Lines: 20 In-reply-to: kdq@demott.COM's message of 15 Mar 90 02:29:52 GMT In article <72@demott.COM> kdq@demott.COM (Kevin D. Quitt) writes: ... > REFTEST allows you to adjust the DRAM refresh rate on your machine > to optimize performance. Based on its numbers, Norton's si, and my own I tried to boost my machine (which WAS 286/10MHz/0WS) with REFTEST and QFRESH: let them optimize the refresh rate and executed them (separately). Norton SI showed something more than before - this increase, however, wasn't noticeable. BUT - my hard disk (60 MB 20.6 ms MicroScience) slowed down VERY noticeably! Also, whole performance decreased -> I don't recommend using any of those programs. > SMOOTH is not nearly so usefull, but is interesting. It is a file It is from PC Magazine, also available in SIMTEL20, wuarchive and other mirror sites. Haven't tried it, anyway... -- $ Petri Hartoma, Tre University of Technology $ $ Internet: ph62303@tut.fi, ph62303@tut.UUCP, $ $ mcvax!tut!ph62303 $