Benchmark

 

 
PCMark 04 Pro and 3DMark 03 (shareware)
PCMark04 is an application-based benchmark and a tool for measuring overall PC performance. It uses portions of real applications instead of specifically created code. This allows PCMark04 to be a smaller installation as well as to report very accurate results. As far as possible, PCMark04 uses public domain applications whose source code can be freely examined by any user.

About 3DMark 03, there is a little I can say, since it is the most known benchmark for video cards and for gamers...

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OVERALL: VERY GOOD

Sisoft Sandra
SiSoftware Sandra (the System ANalyser, Diagnostic and Reporting Assistant) is an information & diagnostic utility. It should provide most of the information (including undocumented) you need to know about your hardware, software and other devices whether hardware or software.

It works along the lines of other Windows utilities, however it tries to go beyond them and show you more of what's really going on. Giving the user the ability to draw comparisons at both a high and low-level. You can get information about the CPU, chipset, video adapter, ports, printers, sound card, memory, network, Windows internals, AGP, ODBC Connections, USB2, 1394/Firewire, etc.

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OVERALL: GOOD

Aquamark 3 (shareware)
With a concept very similar to 3DMark Pro, Aquamark allows benchmarking in a real-world scenario, with an engine and art assets showing the complexity of current games; it generates 3D scenes designed to make the same demands on hardware as a modern game .

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OVERALL: QUITE GOOD