benchmarking

Benchmarks. Every website worth their marbles uses them to varying degrees of accuracy. Meanwhile, every reader wants to recreate them in some way, shape or form in order to do exactly what their favorite publications are doing: to evaluate the performance of their hardware choices and quantify...

BE Hardware have performed a massive CPU roundup and can be found here: Giant roundup: 146 Intel and AMD processors! (page 1: Introduction) - BeHardware Dealing with current news means that we rarely have the opportunity to review old products and of course a comparison between the most recent...

Whats the better cards out of these? There is my price range. Graphic Cards - ATI Radeon HD 5000 - ATI Radeon? HD 5770 OR BFG Tech - BFG NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 OC 896MB PCIe 2.0 now i hear that the 5 series ATI cards have issues at the momment, with driver crashes and the CCC randomly acting...

The chaps at Hardware.fr have published a pretty cool power consumption test for 73 Link Removed. It's obviously in French so I'll post the pictures but to check it out for yourself go here: Dossier : La vraie consommation de 73 cartes graphiques (page 1: Introduction) - HardWare.fr

The Windows Memory Debate: Windows7Forums.com conducts a detailed analysis of the memory debate surrounding Windows XP, Windows Vista, and Windows 7. Understanding Memory Utilization: Windows XP Pro 32-bit (October 2001) vs. Windows Vista Business 64-bit (November 2006) vs. Windows 7 Pro...

Lynnfield Can Take The Heat, But Should It? The enemy of both stability and longevity, heat changes the characteristics of silicon in a way that eventually makes it unsuitable for use in a logic circuit. Heat damage can sneak up on overclockers quickly, such as the 59 degree Celsius stability...

OK it exploded but it did it A bloke managed to get an Intel Celeron D Processor overclocked from 3.06 GHz to 8.19 GHz. TiN_EOF's overclocking efforts seem to have set a new record for an overclocked processor's speed. Intel Celeron D 347 which contains the NeBurst architecture based in the...

The Mozilla product development and engineering teams are hard at work again, this time with a rollout of the first Release Candidate build for the long anticipated Firefox 3.6. We received notification a couple days ago that the build is now available for download and is intended to be used for...

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A new Version 3.0.3 of the FPS measurement, benchmarking and video capture utility FRAPS has been released. This version fixes an installer bug.

A new Version 3.0.0 of the FPS measurement, benchmarking and video capture utility FRAPS has been released. This version has a new interface, provides DirectX 11 and Windows 7 support, adds the ability to capture Stereoscopic 3D Vision video up to 1920x1200 for D3D9 games, has a new Lossless RGB...

Enabling the 4th core does not work in all 100% cases, but sometimes it is as simple as just going to bios and setting Advance Clock Calibration to Auto and restarting the machine. On the next boot, it will enable the 4th core. Phenom II X3 becomes a quad core processor. Link Removed due to...

Table of contents 1 – June Review / July Updates 2 – Best PCIe Card: Under $100 3 – Best PCIe Card: $100 To $160 4 – Best PCIe Card: $175 To $300 5 – Best PCIe Card: $350 And Up <LI class=clearfix>6 – Graphics Card Hierarchy Chart 7 –...

Futuremark has released a series of Updates for the 3DMark03, 3DMark05, 3DMark06, 3DMark Vantage, PCMark05 and PCMark Vantage benchmarking programs. These patches update the system information detection component and fix numerous issues related to hardware detection.

many people clam that Windows 7 build 7057 is the release candidate (RC) build , but certenly pretty close to being RC . Rather than publish a series of synthetic benchmark results for the different operating systems and builds (Microsoft frowns upon benchmarking beta builds, not to mention...

Futuremark has released Link Removed - Invalid URL, a free benchmarking tool designed to compare the performance of various Internet browsers on your system. Note however that Peacekeeper does not measure the security, stability, functionality or W3C conformity of browsers.

Just figured I'd start a little benchmarking comparison thread, see how our PCs stand up against one another. If you want to get in on the comparison, please include the following if possible; - A screen shot of your Cinebench r10 Scores - Which version (64 bit or 32 bit) of the program you ran...

Hi guys After testing different Windows OS'es -- I still have to say that Windows XP PRO 64 Bit edition with SP2 stiill rules the roost in speed etc by quite a large margin. Using asus P5QL -CM Mobo with 8GB RAM and Intel Quad Q9400 2.66 GHZ. Using built in video driver (Intel G45 / G43...

Okay, so there's been a lot of talk about which is better, which runs leaner, which takes more space, etc. So I decided; Hey! Why not test them all, in a controlled environment, allowing them the exact same treatment to get as accurate a result as possible? Good Idea? I think so too. So here...

I am a pc enthusiast, and am trying to get one of the futuremark programs so I can test windows 7 performance for myself, along with my new hardware......but Im not sure if I should use pcmark vantage since it is made for vista...any ideas?