Benchmark Tools -- Aquamark not so good

[GamingDaemon]

I am eagerly waiting on the following parts to build my new dream rig:

[*] Enermax EXCA3052 Chakra case
[*] Intel BadAxe2
[*] eVGA 8800GTX
[*] Corsair 620Watt power supply
[*] Intel Core 2 Duo E6600
[*] G.Skill 2G (2x1GB) F2-6400PHU2 memory
[*] WD800JD Sata2 80GB drive for Vista Ultimate
[*] Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 320GB drive for Games & Development
[*] HP940Vi LightScribe DVD Burner
[*] Zalman CNPS 9700 cooler

So, while I am waiting for them to be delivered, I thought I would benchmark my current PC one last time. I am running 3DMark06 on Vista with on an AMD X2 939 4200+ machine with 2GB of memory, an eVGA 7900 GT KO and the nVidia 100.65 drivers. That works fine.

But Aquamark3 will turn my screen black or put those well-known diagonal color bars across my screen. I have to turn my PC off the hard way.

SiSandra runs fine but tells me it could not get an IP address for my hosts, mentioning my WORKGROUP name. I even put my WORKGROUP name in the hosts file in c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts. I am therefore unable to get a performance index since the network stuff fails.

Any better tools? What should I use?

Thanks!

 

[Munky]

AQ3 is heavily cpu-limited on modern high end video cards, so no point in running it. You could try my own custom benchmark for more variety...

 

[myocardia]

You have to patch AquaMark, to run it with alot of newer systems. Here's the patch.