what are some good benchmark programs?

[Shephard]

what are some good benchmark programs to compare cpus by myself instead of use anandtech?

for gpu I use afterburner and just take screenshots. not so reliable though.

 

[2is]

Well, for starters, you could use some of the same benchmarks that AT uses that you have access to.

Handbrake is a free and very good multi-threaded video encoder. It's what I would use to test encoding performance.

Gaming performance, I like to actually play the game with FRAPS running in the background in benchmark mode. That will record min/avg/max fps.

 

[Phynaz]

The only ones that matter are the programs you use.