Does anyone know of any 'light' suites of benchmarking tools for benchmarking PC performance ?
I know there used to be a lot of them floating about in the old days when getting the last drop of performance out of your machine was really important because of the cost of hardware, but I don't seem to be able to find them as easily now.
The type of benchmarks I am talking about are the ones that give an index for performance against a standard level (as in . . . a benchmark). In the old days you could almost directly measure the increase in CPU performance (instructions per second for example) as the processor speed increased.
I know there are tools are out there for benchmarking gaming graphics cards throughput, but at the moment I am interested in things like memory access speed, disk I/O, CPU operations per second, etc . . .
The problem I am trying to resolve is poor performance among *some* machines which are nominally identical to others. I want to use the benchmarks to either rule in or out basic sub-system differences.
I know there used to be a suite available from/through zdnet.com but it's been ages since I used them and I can't find them at the moment.
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I know there used to be a lot of them floating about in the old days when getting the last drop of performance out of your machine was really important because of the cost of hardware, but I don't seem to be able to find them as easily now.
The type of benchmarks I am talking about are the ones that give an index for performance against a standard level (as in . . . a benchmark). In the old days you could almost directly measure the increase in CPU performance (instructions per second for example) as the processor speed increased.
I know there are tools are out there for benchmarking gaming graphics cards throughput, but at the moment I am interested in things like memory access speed, disk I/O, CPU operations per second, etc . . .
The problem I am trying to resolve is poor performance among *some* machines which are nominally identical to others. I want to use the benchmarks to either rule in or out basic sub-system differences.
I know there used to be a suite available from/through zdnet.com but it's been ages since I used them and I can't find them at the moment.
z