Best benchmark program?

[eyetrip]

Just wondering what the best overall system benchmark is. Hopefully it is something free, but not essential, though won't spend huge amounts on something.

I know synthetic benches won't necessarily represent real-wold performance, but I want to know the effects of changes I make in BIOS, so that I can see if a tweak is making things better and not worse.

Hoping there is a suite which will test a wide variety of things, and not just CPU.

 

[PaulyD]

SuperPi and (unsure if this still exists) Everest Memory benchmark is good to check memory bandwidth and performance

Could use IBT and check GFlops performance but this is generally directly related to clock speed.

Geekbench as well?

 

[eyetrip]

I do use IBT for stress testing, or Prime, and while I am sure IBT could give me some help, I am not sure how good it would be at showing differences in say moving from cas 10 to cas 9 on memory, or upping the bclk from 100 to 105.

I think Everest is now Aida, which I actually came across earlier, and thing that might do. It's not free, but it's not horribly expensive...

 

[PaulyD]

Everest used to have a demo version that would blank out some of the results, not sure whether they still do that on the new version they have now. Haven't ever bothered with it since.

SuperPi should show increases with CAS timings being made tighter and BCLK giving more bandwidth

 

[stuntmanSLim]

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