Quick relative performace assessment

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Be kind to an old man...

In the 90s, I ran a systems department in a computer service company. I built hundreds of PCs. One of the QC checks we did on all builds was to run a DOS utility called CheckIt. It was great for flagging up any problems, and the benchmarking section gave you a pretty good idea if there was a hardware/config/driver problem which needed addressing.

20 years later and I'm no longer in computers, but I still have strong interest. My question is:

Is there a utility I can run which quickly benchmarks CPU, RAM, disk, graphics, etc., and shows me if it's in the right ball park for the tested hardware?

The only one I've used recently is Passmark, but I'm not convinced it's telling me the whole story. Any suggestions?
 
The only thing that comes to mind is Memtest86+ which will test for failing memory, though Passmark is pretty much the standard for benchmarking.
 
Thanks, Habakkuk. I'll give Passmark another try.
I tried three yesterday: SiSoftware Sandra (crikey, that takes me back), RealBench, and Novabench...

Sandra took an eternity to run and eventually hung. What a load of crap.
Realbench didn't tell me anything useful.
Novabench didn't tell me much, but it did highlight that my graphics card (Radeon HD7850) was running like a dog.

Unfortunately, I'd been avoiding recent Radeon drivers because of an ongoing Windows colour management problem and Photoshop. And now it seems that older drivers I tried are incompatible with the Fall Creators Update. So, I'm back to nagging AMD about an issue which has nothing to do with gaming. I won't hold my breath.
 
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