Performance Testing My PC . . .

tak

My system is late 2001 Dell Dimension 4300 / P4 / 1.6 GHz / nVidia GeForce2 MX/MX400 (64 MB, I think).
I recently fattened up my RAM (PC133) from 256 MB to 1024 MB.
Apart from the application (Olympus Master2) that manages the digital photos and some small improvement in quicker Google Earth opening, I see very little difference in speed.
I do not presently use RAM hungry applications so that may explain the lack of noticeable improvement. Soon I'll be looking at a new CAD pack, where available RAM will be a brake on things.

I've tried downloading some small freeware benchmarking applications.
But they tell me very little, as the baseline comparisions data module is not part of the freeware !
Is there any benchmark application simple and not too big that will rank my PC's performance in terms of CPU speed, graphics speed and overall performance alongside defined present-day systems ?

8T8

Everest or Sisoft sandra do that but largely with synthetic tests outside of the standard of pictures/office/internet any modern PC will be substantially faster than your current one.

SickBoy

On top of what 8T8 suggested I would recommend PCMark as it's a bit more real world performance instead of just synthetic benchmarks...

tak

PC Mark is not freeware, though.:(

SickBoy

tak wrote:

PC Mark is not freeware, though.:(

Yes it is. You just have to pay for the advanced features which are not required to run the benchmark...