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Looking for some good benching tools

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First post, by Oldskoolmaniac

Posted on 2016-08-09, 17:54

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What are some good benching tools that everyone has and what hardware are the designed for?

So far the only benching tools ive been using is 3dmark 99 all the way up to 2006 and pcmark as well. To my knowledge 3dmark is for high end Pentium 3 and upward.

So my question is what are other good benching tools that I can use, basically my collection of tower range from DOS, 95, 98, w2k, XP, 486, Cyrix MII 300mhz, AMD K6, Athlon, P1, P2, P3, P4, Nvidia riva 128 to Geforce 6800, ATI Rage 128 to x1600 so much more to even list.

Ive heard of other bench marking tools, but im not sure as to what they should be paired with, does it go well with a p1 or is designed for a p3?

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Reply 1 of 7, by Jorpho

Posted on 2016-08-09, 18:03

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SiSoft Sandra and Furmark spring to mind.

Reply 2 of 7, by Oldskoolmaniac

Posted on 2016-08-09, 18:05

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What versions and what are they used on?

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Reply 3 of 7, by SPBHM

Posted on 2016-08-09, 19:09

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there are so many, but a few I can remember quickly

Final Reality = DX5
Aquamark 3 = dx8.1 I think
cpu mark99 as a quick test
aida64 (lots of things to test)
cinebench

also I always like using rthdribl to check my DX9 VGAs

Reply 4 of 7, by clueless1

Posted on 2016-08-09, 19:26

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Oldskoolmaniac wrote:
What versions and what are they used on?

http://www.oldapps.com/ carries old versions of software. You might get an "unsafe" warning from your browser going there. I'm not sure how legit that is, though. You can search by app name, or you can search by OS to find apps compatible with that OS.

Are you familiar with Phil's VGA benchmark kit? That's a good set of benchmarks for DOS.

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Reply 5 of 7, by Davros

Posted on 2016-08-10, 21:30

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3d winbench

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Reply 6 of 7, by Oldskoolmaniac

Posted on 2016-08-13, 00:08

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I just downloaded all the ones Phil put together, I didn't know there was already a thread for this topic.

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Reply 7 of 7, by Tetrium

Posted on 2016-08-13, 07:04

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I've used SuperPi the most, because it's a very small program (could fit on a floppy) and easy and quickly to use. Only prerequisite is that you have a Windows installation.

There's a SuperPi downloadable in the SuperPi thread that will measure floats in 9x (it prevents a crash bug that always happened after the very first run).

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