all those performance tests?

[angstsoldat]

how do you find out your "benchmarks" or whatever that silly phrase is.. that gives you a rating on how well you perform or whatever and that 3d0mark stuff?? and is it free? and how do you find out what temperature your system runs out, is there a program that can tell you that?

 

[dragonic]

Home of 3DMark, PCMark and SPMark(SmartPhone). They have free versions but those have some kind of restrictions like you cannot choose which tests you can run IIRC.

 

[angstsoldat]

so how do you find out your temperature and how well your system performs?

 

[BlueWeasel]

Temperature monitoring:
Speedfan
Motherboard Monitor

 

[angstsoldat]

do you have to go into your case to view that? If not where will it say that

 

[WildHorse]

Originally posted by: angstsoldat
do you have to go into your case to view that? If not where will it say that

a) Here you can download free a small utility program named ITE SmartGuardian, that'll display your temps & voltages on your monitor.

b) You can download a free download that'll display some temps.

c) Read this great, simple overclocking guide by "THunDA." Even if you're not overclocking, THunDA tells you exactly where to get several free downloads to use in benchmarking, and how to use them properly.

Some examples copied from THunDA's great work on that site:
Memtest ver. 1.51
http://downloads.guru3d.com/download.php?det=996

Prime95 ver. 24.11
http://www.mersenne.org/gimps/p95v2411.zip

SuperPi
http://superpi.radeonx.com/

OCCT
<a target=_blank class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="ftp://ftp2.ocbase.com/ocbase3/OpenBeta/OCCTv0.91.exe"><a target=_blank class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="ftp://ftp2.ocbase.com/ocbase3/OpenBeta/OCCTv0.91.exe"><a target=_blank class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="ftp://ftp2.ocbase.com/ocbase3/OpenBeta/OCCTv0.91.exe"><a target=_blank class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="ftp://ftp2.ocbase.com/ocbase3/OpenBeta/OCCTv0.91.exe"><a target=_blank class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="ftp://ftp2.ocbase.com/ocbase3/OpenBeta/OCCTv0.91.exe">ftp://ftp2.ocbase.com/ocbase3/OpenBeta/OCCTv0.91.exe</a></a></a></a></a>

3dMark01, 3dMark03, 3dMark05
01 = http://downloads.guru3d.com/download.php?det=320
03 = http://downloads.guru3d.com/download.php?det=576
05 = http://downloads.guru3d.com/download.php?det=874

There are plenty of additional benchmarking programs, different strokes for different folks.

d) NO don't physically go inside your case, unless you have & know how to use good temperature probing and multimeter equipment. That'd be more accurate, but in your case just use the free utility programs.

 

[angstsoldat]

Thanks scott, I'll copy paste your post there into a Word Document so I can print that out for when the time comes that i will need to check those temperatures, unless you don't want me to print that or something..

 

[WildHorse]

Go for it !

And please remember, the person who did the work isn't me, it's "THunDA" who wrote the OC Guide on DFI-Street.com. He put a lot of work into that! Look it over to see THunDA's explanation of how to use benchmark tests.

 

[angstsoldat]

kk. Soon as I wake up tommorow.