Best tools for benching ?

[wildman]

I just used Kombustor and Heaven for performance testing, but other than seeing high numbers I am having real difficulty understanding what it means in relation to day to day use

Currently I am running crossfired 7950's with the following settings

Core 1250
vcore 1.2
mem 1600

I ran heaven an got the following results

FPS: 78.4
Score: 1974
Min FPS:26.6
Max FPS:181.6

System

Platform:
Windows 7 (build 7601, Service Pack 1) 64bit
CPU model:
Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-2500K CPU @ 3.30GHz (3300MHz) x4
GPU model:
AMD Radeon HD 7900 Series 12.104.0.0 (3072MB) x2
Settings

Render: Direct3D11
Mode: 1920x1080 8xAA fullscreen
Preset:Custom
Quality: Ultra
Tessellation:Extreme

Are there game benches you can run instead of the usual lab based tests like 3D mark etc. I remember years ago I used to run the Q3 time demo when benching FPS on my 3D prophet. If so which games are best to use for bench marking ?

 

[uksoldierboy]

Hiya,
Imho, the best way to test if your overclocks are stable, is simple, play the games you play.
I've done countless runs of 3dmark, heaven etc with no crashes or lock ups, only to find that after a few minutes of bf3 I crash from instability.
Best of luck

 

[Chrisbes]

You have benchmarks like Heaven and Heaven Valley which are alright at testing stability and some games that have built in benchmarks such as Bioshock Infinite and Metro: Last Light. You'd be better using a program like Fraps to record your FPS over a time frame in the games you usually play.