A good cpu benchmark ?

[Mr. May]

i've just got my dad to swap out his [email protected] with 6gb of ram for an i7 [email protected] with 6gb of ram for less then £100 and want to show him the performance jump he has got

 

[panyan]

are there any programs he uses that are particularly demanding?

synthetic benchmarks or real-world?

 

[SeraphX]

Folding @ Home is good
as is Intel burn test
Prime 95?

 

[Mr. May]

are there any programs he uses that are particularly demanding?

synthetic benchmarks or real-world?

he does quite a lot of video encoding so it should be goof for his use

 

[Mr. May]

Folding @ Home is good
as is Intel burn test
Prime 95?

arnt they more of stress test ?

 

[Phase]

Get him to convert and burn a DVD, He will not know numbers and crap, he will see the increase with a DVD .

 

[mr griffin]

the custom pc benchmark is pretty good, was one of the best threads on here in ages!

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18259741

 

[tronath]

Super Pi?

 

[logi-cat]

Could always try the custompc benchmark. it has a blend of different tests.

 

[SeeKified]

Cinebench? Dunno how much of a difference a mere overclock'd make though.