Benchmark Question

[dakrisht]

I'm about to go from 4GB to 8GB RAM and was wondering what benchmarking tools the community recommends?

Also going to OC my CPU from stock 3.4Ghz to >3.8Ghz...

I know Prime95 is for CPU benchmarking, should I just stick with PCMark 05?

Appreciate the responses...

 

[Jonathan_King]

Prime95 is for CPU torture testing, don't know about benchmarking.

 

[Urbwolf]

PrimeCores - new generation benchmark, that is based on a very fast prime number finding algorithm.

CrystalDiskMark - designed to quickly test the performance of your hard drives.

Fraps - Utility for DirectX and OpenGL games that can benchmark and capture video.

D3DGear - Measures 3D game frame rate and display frame rate on screen.

DirectCompute Benchmark - Benchmark DirectX 11 latest general-purpose computing feature by calculating tons of FFT-like data.

Opti Drive Control -A test and benchmark utility for optical drives.

Passmark PerformanceTest -Fast, easy to use, PC speed testing and benchmarking.

PCMark Vantage - The first objective hardware performance benchmark for PCs running 32 and 64 bit Vista and Windows 7

Disk Bench- Tests your hard drive speed in a real life situation.

Geekbench- Measures the performance of your computer's processor and memory.

 

[dakrisht]

Thanks Urbwolf...

 

[jeffc]

PrimeCores - new generation benchmark, that is based on a very fast prime number finding algorithm.

CrystalDiskMark - designed to quickly test the performance of your hard drives.

Fraps - Utility for DirectX and OpenGL games that can benchmark and capture video.

D3DGear - Measures 3D game frame rate and display frame rate on screen.

DirectCompute Benchmark - Benchmark DirectX 11 latest general-purpose computing feature by calculating tons of FFT-like data.

Opti Drive Control -A test and benchmark utility for optical drives.

Passmark PerformanceTest -Fast, easy to use, PC speed testing and benchmarking.

PCMark Vantage - The first objective hardware performance benchmark for PCs running 32 and 64 bit Vista and Windows 7

Disk Bench- Tests your hard drive speed in a real life situation.

Geekbench- Measures the performance of your computer's processor and memory.

This info (with links) should be a sticky somewhere.

 

[Urbwolf]

Here are the links for the benchmarks.



Free Download PrimeCores 1.0 - Cpu Core Diagnostic

Download CrystalDiskMark 3.0 Beta 2 / 2.2.0n - A small HDD benchmark utility for your hard drive - Softpedia


FRAPS show fps, record video game movies, screen capture software

D3DGear-Capture video game movie,Take game screenshot,Show game fps

DirectCompute Benchmark 0.25


Opti Drive Control website

PassMark PerformanceTest - PC benchmark software

Futuremark - Benchmarks - PCMark Vantage - Introduction

Nodesoft - Disk Bench

Primate Labs Geekbench

 

[tranqueirex]

Usefull post. thanks Urbwolf