Benchmark Program That Tests System Responsiveness

[sare^baw's]

Chaps

I have just done a fresh install of win7 on my recently aquired 5 year old Lenovo Thinkpad. I want to test the responsiveness of my system, a bit like the Discomark app for Android. I want to monitor my o/s and try to get an idea when things eventually start to slow down, as we know it can/will happen over time.

I also have a Dell laptop (i7, 8gb ram) with which i installed win 7 x64 onto a few months ago, within a couple of months it was very very slow, i have been using win7 for years and i always do regular maintenance. I have no idea what caused this installation to turn into a slow responding machine, start up times increased too, it was like using an old slow laptop.

So for this reason i want to measure how responsive my system is, then if it ever starts to get slower i can take action or restore from a image backup.

Is there such a program or is there an alternative method that works well?

 

[NeverWinter]

PCMark?

 

[jpaul]

was going to say the dpc latency checker, which I usually use to debug sound glitches and identify mis-behaving drivers, it gives you a ms response time,
which would have some correlation to UI responsiveness.
The system log gives some boot time tracking too, so you can look for degradation or inadvertant bloatware and services.

 

[sare^baw's]

PCMark?

Im by no means an expert but does pc mark not just test your pc hardware and how it performs?

was going to say the dpc latency checker, which I usually use to debug sound glitches and identify mis-behaving drivers, it gives you a ms response time,
which would have some correlation to UI responsiveness.
The system log gives some boot time tracking too, so you can look for degradation or inadvertent bloatware and services.

I have the latency checker installed. What its it actually checking and where do i find the system log? \its running between 150 and 500.

 

[jpaul]

I have the latency checker installed. What its it actually checking and where do i find the system log? \its running between 150 and 500.

look on google too - but they enable you to see how responsive the system is to hardware interrupts, there are a number of free tools giving related information,
but if you archive a records of results you can later see if there is any degradation due to bad drivers/ hardware problems.

system logs (unrelated to dpc) can show information on boot time eg https://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/174750-boot-times-monitor-event-viewer.html

both are tools for studying/maintaining system performance

 

[sare^baw's]

@jpaul Sorry for the late reply, i have not had the chance to get online.

many thanks for the link , i did not know you could monitor boot times in this way, this is very useful for me and will help me monitor the performance. Thanks for the screenshots too. I will start collecting the stats i need and keep monitoring things going forward. Thanks for your help