First post, by Gahhhrrrlic
I have a machine that I have been building which has a nice array of performance hardware from the late 90s era but runs slow as hell and I'm trying to figure out why. It's a fresh install so software is not the problem. I have a theory it's the hard drive but this led me to wanting a convenient piece of freeware capable of giving me a speed test on everything, which leads me to my question: Is there a freeware application for use in both a DOS and a Windows environment, which can check the speed of the CPU, RAM, Graphics card, Hard Drive, LAN, etc and report back in some user friendly way via bar chart or numerically, how fast everything is?
I feel like this has probably been talked and archived to death for DOS at least but I seem to be having trouble finding a link to the best one and for Windows (9X/XP) I can't find anything yet so apologies in advance but if someone can point me to a good one for the technically inclined user, that would be nice. Something with bar or line graphs for every piece of hardware is what I'm going for ideally.