Benchmark suggestions

[Ingleberry]

Before I attempt overclocking i should run some benchmarks on my new upgrades and see how well it fairs out there right? What benchmark tests overall system performance can you recommend trying?

 

[Ingleberry]

My new pc is 100% workstation i like to benchmark overall system performance excluding 3d gaming graphics aspect since irrelavent for its intended use. So anything the measures motherboard cpu ram and hard disk performance to provide something to compare against would help make sense of it all. As you can guess new to this overclocking lark.

 

[Ingleberry]

CPU - SuperPI, Sisoft Sandra, Everest
HD - Crystaldisk, HDtune
Graphics - Heaven or Vantage but a better test would be with 'real' games. Graphics tests however can be subjective as most people who run graphics benchmarks also do so with an overclocked CPU/memory which will also impact on the results.

Fantastic will download those benchmarking softwares and post up the result hopefully highlight any issues before attempting to overclock.