Should You Use Both 3DMark Vantage & PC Mark Vantage?

[DasFox]

For gaming on Vista and a DX10 card, is it optimal to bench test with both 3DMark Vantage and PC Mark Vantage, especially when you want to really test out the system?

Also someone I knows needs this for stress testing to make sure his hardware is ok. Besides Orthos, and memtest I forgot what other apps are out there to stress test with?

He says he can barely turn AA on, so I want some good stress testing for the gpu, mobo, and psu.

THANKS

P.S. I just heard about OCCT and FurMark, and that they're better apps...

 

[n7]

IntelBurnTest or LinX
Prime 95 (25.6 or newer)
OCCT
HCI Memtest (harder than anything on RAM/NB)
Memtest86+
Furmark
RTHDRIBL

 

[DasFox]

Originally posted by: n7
IntelBurnTest or LinX
Prime 95 (25.6 or newer)
OCCT
HCI Memtest (harder than anything on RAM/NB)
Memtest86+
Furmark
RTHDRIBL

LinX is just an updated GUI for IntelBurnTest?

Does OCCT do Linpack?

So this is the HCI Memtest?

http://hcidesign.com/memtest/

If you have a 1GB 2GB & 4GB system what do you test the ram size at?