Here are the main three will add more as I find them!
Primarily Gamming Benchmarks

3DMark®03 Download
http://www.futuremark.com/download/?3dmark03.shtml

3DMark®2001 SE (build 330) Download
http://www.futuremark.com/download/?3dmark2001.shtml

Aquamark 3 (Best Real In Game BenchmarK!)
http://www.aquamark3.com/am3-mirrors.htm

Knew you'd be on it! Nice work!

Use these to test system for office applications!

PCMark™04
http://www.futuremark.com/download/?pcmark04.shtml

Thank you. Now, have a beer.

Added as recomended by smileytim

Sandra 2004 (Very nice all around benchmark!)
http://www.sisoftware.co.uk/index.ht...86&langx=en&a=


More reccomendations welcom!

Thank you this will help me a lot when doing research for my overclocking article!

What is Benchmark Programs? i am noob please tell me :P

These are programs that you run on your computer and they will give it a score this score is what you can compare to others scores to see how powerful your machine is.

To put it in car terms The program is like a drag race for your computer the score is the time except higher scores are better!

They are programs designed to test certain aspects of your system from hardware to software. Kind of like a workout for your PC that tells you how in shape you are.

-Craig

Super Pi (Benchmark Utility)

Its attached if anyone want to try it. Maby we can make a thread to see what scores (time) people are getting with different system configurations.

I have been searching the forum for about two days and feel like have gone back to college having a degree in computer or something.

I actually own a Gateway laptop, but been trying to look into many aspect of benchmark programs. This Sandra 2004 is great. I use it to tune up my very old desktop. Within a few minutes of tuning period. I felt like having a brand new computer. Not quite like that actually.

But having mere Intel 400 Celeron, 64MB memory and 8MB ATI rage pro, and now seeing all aspects of all my games noticeably improve w/ all settings on high ends and my recenlty slow Window Media 9 program runs like charm, I am really excited.
Just wanna say thank you to you all good folk. Now it is time to do something about my laptop.

Try "Benchemall". It has its own standardize timedemos that it tests in the latest games such as farcry, unreal tournament 2004, halo, splinter cell, quake3, doom3 alpha leak, etc.

These are timedemos of real 3d engines, based off real games. meaning the scores are real world performance numbers. 3dmark01/03 are synthetic... aquamark03 is a good real world test (as its based off spellforce/aquanox/aquanox2, which are real games)

http://benchemall.com/

http://www.benchemall.com/download/benchemall.zip

Feel free to post your results here along with your machine+specs

http://notebookforums.com/showthread...0&page=1&pp=15

we have a thread going w/ different notebook makers

Thanx a bunch for the info. I will surely check them all out.

I really enjoy the Final Fantasy XI benchmark.

http://www.playonline.com/ff11us/mul...ownload/bench/

There are several benchs I recommend:

For Graphics:

- Games like Far Cry, Doom III, CS, RTCW. Honestly I don't recommend using synt. benchs like 3Dmark and similars because they don't reflect real performance.

For CPU:

- Math pure math, Pifast is my favourite, don't use synt. again

For Memory:

- Use programs like audio and video compression, they realy stress memory. Sciencemark is also interesting.