[HTC Wildfire S] d33ps1x:
So I was seeing all these ROM's now that the world is unlocked for the WFS.

"This is the fastest ROM around!"

, etc, etc...

Talk is just that so we decided to have a little fun.

This is just a straight up 1/4 mile race lads and lassies!!!

I don't have much to say much about aesthetics, logical placement of things, or other details although I did spend some time on each ROM and was familiar with a few to begin with. Again. It's a drag race by the clock only!

I proposed and carried out the following:

-I intended to make the field level as the foundation of a house my good ol' man himself would build.

- The ROM's got tested out of the box. No additional flashing of this or that to improve this or that.

- I used the same Wildfire S GSM A510e, and CLEAN formatted Adata Class 10 16 GB SD card to perform both Antutu and Quadrant Standard benchmarks on all ROM's. Consistant SD r/w results are part of what makes a ROM smoke. Especially using DATA2SD, LINK2SD, A2SD, etc. This card was formatted in the following manner:

Partition 1 - Primary/Active FAT32 - 13.5 GB

Partition 2 - Primary - Ext2 - 1.0 GB

Partition 3 - Primary - Linux Swap - 512 MB

- I ran each test three times and choose the highest score in both the Antutu and Quadrant tests.

- No software was added to the ROM's by myself other than a file manager if I needed one to install Antutu and Quadrant Standard. [/I]

-This was a speed and performance test only and only within the confines of the testing platforms at hand.

-I clocked all ROM's at 806mHz/806mHz with performance governor and just let them run flat out.

-I tested all equally and didn't put one in just to be impartial, not that I stood a chance. :p

The ROMs and their Developers:

HenseMod4 By Henry_01

A slick HTC Sense based ROM heavily modified and updated.

.sense 1.0 By benjamingwynn

A clean well thought out Sense based ROM with updates galore.

m1ndh4x8r EU GB 2.3.5 By m1ndh4x8r

The standard for HTC Sense based ROM's. A Story I don't need to retell.

TurboFire Beta 9 By DJPC

A stripped down drag racer. This ROM weighs in as the smallest of the HTC Sense based ROMs.

Unofficial CyanogenMod7.2.0 Port By Alquez

The standard for Non-Sense based ROMs. This is the smallest sized ROM in the field and it again doesn't need it's story told.

The Results:

HenseMod4 By Henry_01

.sense 1.0 By benjamingwynn

m1ndh4x8r EU GB 2.3.5 By m1ndh4x8r

TurboFire Beta 9 By DJPC

Unofficial CyanogenMod7.2.0 Port By Alquez

Not surprisingly the lightest weight ROM came out on top by a hair in the Antutu Benchmark and by quite a bit in the Quadrant Standard score.

Second going to m1ndh4x0r's ROM, the kernel of which was used in all the other HTC Sense based ROMs. I guess if it's your game you might as well be the best at it if only by a hair over Henry_01 and his third place HenseMod4.

The other three ROM's came in really really close and at the end of the day, aside from the standout Quadrant score by Alquez, the pack was tight right to the end.

Kudo's to our three newest developers BenjaminGwenn, Henry_01, and DJPC (who might I add doesn't even own a Wildfire S and developed his ROM using the eyes and ears, and logcat files of testers alone!).

That's it folks. I'm ROM'ed out, typed out and seeing triple from this.

The drag race is over for another year.

Hope you enjoyed yourself and will give all these ROM's a run for their money and pick which one is best for you. They all deserve a serious look.

PS If you are a developer or end user who liked the idea of me spending the time and resources to perform these tests please do click thanks!