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    Your favorite benchmark/testing tools, discuss here!

    Discussion in 'Alienware 17 and M17x' started by Gramse, Jul 30, 2010.

  1. Gramse

    Gramse Notebook Guru

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    Hi guys will get my system in a day or two and ive been reading about benchmarking and other things to test your system. What im wondering is whats your favorite program for testing/benchmarking your system? There are to much to choose from.

    Discuss away!
     
    Gramse, Jul 30, 2010
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    nzgeek Notebook Evangelist

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    3DMark06 and 3DMark Vantage are probably the most popular benchmarking tools out there. Vantage shows separate scores for the CPU and GPU, as well as a combined score, so it's a good indication of how the system is running.

    For DX11 GPU benchmarking you can also look at Unigine Heaven. This makes use of DX11 tesselation, a feature that the ATi 5870Ms and the new nVidia GT4xxM GPUs support.
     
    nzgeek, Aug 2, 2010
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