Benchmarking Systems

[chad750]

I am still new to the all the details of building and upgrading PCs as I built my first one only a year and a half ago though it is still up and running. However, one of the many tools I have read about, the use of benchmarking, is something I still know pretty much nothing about except concept. Benchmarking would be quite useful to me, as I am sure it is to you, for comparing components and OCing. I know how to look at a spec sheet and compare benchmarking info, but I do not know how to do it myself. I may not be looking in the right places but I have yet to find a program that measures fps or processor speeds during certain calculations or any of the other tests I would like to do. Any help or advise you can offer would be great.

Oh if it is needed:
Asus A7V8X 333fsb VIA chipset
AMD 2100 1.73Ghz
Kingston 1gig 400DDR
Leadtek (Nvidia) GeForce4 Ti4200 128MB
Enermax ps 350w
2 West Digital HDs (60 and 40 gig)
TDK DVD/CD RW
Win XP Home

Thanks

 

[mechBgon]

Welcome to the Forums. You might download and install Unreal Tournament 2004 Demo, go into the C:\UT2004Demo\System folder and run Benchmark.exe. That's a good real-world benchmark, particularly the Botmatch results, because it is an actual program that people use in real life, and higher fps is always good for first-person-shooter gaming, all other things being equal.

If you want a more CPU-intensive benchmark, try WinZip or FilZip and time some large file compressions and decompressions at Maximum compression level. If you want a disk-intensive benchmark, try installing Office2000 or later from an Administrative Installation Point that's located on the same hard drive that the programs are installing on (SCSI is extremely good at this). Or try SETIBench for a good CPU/mobo/memory workout: link, and read, read, READ the instructions or it ain't gonna work. 😛