not as well as i planed a lot of my games are on steam and were not working and after a lot of googling and getting nowhere i remembered having a problem with stalker shadow of Chernobyl caused by win 7 service pack 1 so uninstalled it and everything is now working, it's a bit of a strange one last time it was just stalker this time the games affected were call of duty mw2 & 3 burnout paradise, Alpha Protocol, mafia II to name just a few of them,
here's a list of tests i'll be running if there are any other's i should run please let me know and i'll add them

3dmark vantage & 11
heaven 2.1 & 3.0
metro 2033
call of duty mw3
saints row 3
company of heros (benchmark mode)
dirt 2
stalker clear sky (as i need to redownload SoC and complete mod)
homeland
just cause II
mafia II (benchmark mode)
battlefield 3
crysis + warhead
crysis 2 with dx11 and hi res pack
and others, something cpu dependant so any recommendations welcome

i won't be stripping my system tonight as still have tests to run and time is getting on so will finish off what's left and any other cpu benchmarks i can find
i will be running all tests in the most hardcore mode available all games will be run with max with everything turned up

and run @ 1920x1080, the first will be run @ stock speeds, overclocking will come later

as i'm running all stock right now and i think i have most benchmarks tucked away somewhere from when it was overclocked if not to make things fair maybe i will under clock the i5 to 3GHz
i've been an gamer since about the late 80's my first computer was a commodore vic 20 my first console was Atari 2600 lol and i've had most systems over the years, commodore 64, amiga 500/3000/1200, sega megadrive + mega cd and x32 add-ons, all 3 playstations both xbox's and pc's from my first pentium 75MHz, well it started off as a pentium 75 i think about 2 weeks after getting it i upgraded it to a 233 mmx and matrox mystique and it's been the same ever since it's only been the last couple of years i haven't really upgraded much not felt the need too, but upgrade bug can be ignored forever
anyway off to bed got a busy day tomorrow, i'm hoping the bits will turn up around lunchtime so i can do the rebuild while watching F1 happy days
