Quote Originally Posted by Marvin_The_Martian View Post
I think the algorithm doesn't matter to most, calculating prime numbers well you can use P95 for that and calculating pi I think that's done already to idk how many digits.

People will care about how tweakable the benchmark is, and about how consistent the scaling will be ( eg predictability so you can weed out any scores which are simply bugged or cheated ). Best would be a cheat safe bench offcourse.

My .02c.
I would very well like to make something, new.
If anyone knows anything that would stress a CPU (I am now even trying to write some DirectX 9 applications), please let me know.
I will attempt to implement it.