best utilities to test/benchmark cpu for review

[GunsMadeAmericaFree]

I have a ~ 30 day old processor to review, so I thought I'd get on here and ask what is your favorite cpu testing software to use. The last time I reviewed one of these, it had a a single core and I was using super pi.

I've found Hyper Pi and read about PCMark 8, and I'll definitely try those out. I was hoping that someone could recommend a few others that I could add to my list to use for testing as well. I'm not going to be overclocking or needing stability tests, for the most part. I primarily would like to compare to other processors.

 

[DominionSeraph]

Quake 2 at 640x480.

 

[AtenRa]

I use the following,

PC Mark 8, Cinebench 11.5 and R15, x264 HD, TrueCrypt, Pov-Ray, SVPmark 3, Luxmark 2, GLbenchmark 1.1.3, 7zip, winrar etc

But you can only use PCMark 8 (Creative) and it will be just fine depending on the CPU you are benchmarking.

 

[GunsMadeAmericaFree]

Thanks for the suggestions so far. I forgot to mention that I'm not into 3D shooter games at all. My time on the PC is about 40% internet browsing, 30% casual browser games, 15% handbrake video encoding, 6% hex wargames/strategy games and the other 9% writing.

 

[YBS1]

I actually like Asus ROG RealBench pretty well, we need a RealBench thread.