benchmarking

[ScoobyDoo{KEA}]

just wondered if you guys use any kind of pc benchmarking tool,whats a good one to get ive had 3d mark05 and thought it was quite good are there any more good uns what do you guys have?

 

[Mabs]

3d mark do a new one for each year to utilise the most recent things, the scores arent comperable between versions

the freebee version will bench a bit but you need to shell out for the full version for the bells and whistles

 

[Kryten]

In all honesty, 3DMark is not really much more use than "oooh look, prettys" - and it's certainly not pretty any more by todays standards.

Strangely, you get a better all round performance benchmark result by running Quake 4 in timedemo - as old as that little trick is, it's far more indicitive of a gaming systems performance than anything Futuremark are ever likely to knock up.

 

[Mabs]

In all honesty, 3DMark is not really much more use than "oooh look, prettys" - and it's certainly not pretty any more by todays standards.

Strangely, you get a better all round performance benchmark result by running Quake 4 in timedemo - as old as that little trick is, it's far more indicitive of a gaming systems performance than anything Futuremark are ever likely to knock up.

while thats true, i would argue that benchmarking itself is spurious

does it run the games you want to play, with the settings you want on ?
then its fine
getting some abstract number for epeen purposes and comparing with other people is pointless

 

[Kryten]

Nail on the head.

Nuff said.

 

[ScoobyDoo{KEA}]

i disagree ive been using the bench mark tools to set up my pc correctly,using different ram and graphics cards it lets me see what the diff in scores are to enable me to get the best out of my pc.others are going to of course disagree but thats my personal preference.

 

[Dreamor]

wasn't it 3d mark that admitted to giving a higher score to nvidia cards over ati? hmmm, I've always been a bit off the idea of running it since, as I ran a similar specced machine to a friend, only I had an ati card and he had a nvidia and was getting thousands ahead of me

check places like Overclockers for the cards and cpu's that score high on the fps tests, usually a good check.