im curious to know how machiens compare against each other, and wanted to find out how much i was doing per second.

i opened paint and then got my DOS window and did a "print screen", quickly i pasted this into paint and re-opened the DOS window and did "print screen" again.
I then compred the two to see ish how much production i was doing - this is not definate but i think the top line goes year.month.day.time.hr.m.s.fraction of second
and start of the next line is generated [Gen:]

my values were
Gen: 17,363 Time 16:43:01.734
Gen: 17,447 Time 16:43:10.687

Gen: 84 Time 00:00:08.953
The differences being as above and when divided 9.382 per Second on AMD 3200+.
this may be complete rubbish but if you want to plz do it and post your results and processor done on.