Benchmark/Overclocking Software List

[54YW4T]

All these Benchmarks are up to date and latest versions.

Video/Graphics/Gaming Performance

- 3DMark01

- 3DMark03

- 3DMark05

- 3DMark06

- Aquamark 3

PC Overall Performance

- PCMark05

- PCMark04

- SiSoft Sandra 2005

Raw Number Crunching Benchmarks

- Super Pi

Stability of a Computer Benchmark

- SP2004

- Prime95

Cell Phone Benchmarks

- SPMark04

Display Computer Specs/Computer Details

- CPU-Z

- EVEREST Home Edition

Motherboard/Temps/Fanspeed Utilities

- Motherboard Monitor

- Speedfan

Memory Testing

- Memtest86

Game Benchmarks

- Battlefield 2 Benchmarking

- HOC Half-Life 2 Benchmark 1.5

- FarCry Benchmarking Utility

- Final Fantasy XI official benchmark 3

- DOOM 3 Benchmark & Demo

Overclocking/Tweaking Utilities

- ClockGen

- RivaTuner 2.0 RC 15.8

- Coolbits 2.0

- nVHardPage SE

- ATI Tool 0.24

- PowerStrip 3.60

- NVTweak

- RadLinker

Optimized Drivers For Nvidia & ATI

- Omega Drivers

- NGO ATI Optimized Driver v2.5.8

Drivers For ATI & Nvidia

- ATI

- Nvidia
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If you have any other suggestions, please post or PM me.

 

[Roliath]

wow, nice list you got there!
I vote sticky...

 

[jwill]

i second the sticky, thanks for the list.

 

[Actuary]

Another vote for the sticky, very helpful.

 

[Andross182]

only thing i would add is belarc system advisor, other then that, great list!

 

[RavenD]

The only thing about nVidia OmegaDrivers is they're out of date. The newest version is 66.93, and while these drivers performed noticeably better than the official release of 66.93, the 7x.xx and 8x.xx drivers will result in superior performance.

 

[Leb_CRX]

awesome post, thank you

 

[(cf)Eclipse]

i would add cbid into "Display Computer Specs/Computer Details "


http://cbid.amdclub.ru/
it's the only program that accurately describes my opteron
(everest is pretty damn close though)

 

[kleox64]

i second the sticky, thanks for the list.

I second that, we need a clear set out software list for benchmarking/overclocking to compare results.

 

[Intel_Inside]

Thanks for putting a great list together!

 

[54YW4T]

Updated.

 

[Soymilk]

where's memtest?

 

[cx323]

great list. i would also add sp2004

 

[54YW4T]

Updated

 

[MrSlacker]

Great thread man!

 

[J-M-E]

nice

 

[54YW4T]

Thanks.

Anymore suggestions are appreciated.

 

[MrSlacker]

UT2004 Benchmarking Software http://unrealmark.net/

 

[GFreeman9]

Great job with the list this should be a sticky.

 

[evilcartman]

Another vote for sticky here as well.

 

[reddhaus]

Very helpful.

Super Sticky!!

 

[54YW4T]

it is a sticky in the sticky farm.....

 

[Budwise]

a newer version of Rivatuner is out now that supports the 7800's...

 

[daphatgrant]

Excellent list

Thanks

 

[OldMX]

Great post!!

You might want to add ATI Tray Tools , its a great alternative to Catalyst Control Center

oldmx

 

[54YW4T]

Updated

 

[DirDrlr]

Ditto on all of the compliments. Great list and very helpful!! Thanks

 

[Susquehannock]

Nice job, bookmarked for future reference - - why isn't this a sticky yet?

 

[Captin Insano]

I would recomend to add The A64 Tweaker for Ocing tools. Also how about for game benchmarks the fear bench as its probably right now the most grueling and also include FRAPS for game benching. For ID tools about the most comonly used is CPUZ as well. All the stuff i mentioned are used by lots of Overclockers and reviwers.

 

[cornelious0_0]

Not sure why I hadn't stopped in sooner to say thx...but this is a nice list you've got goin' bro. Not that I really need it personally, having everything fricken memorized by now (what I need for what)...but it's nice to have a collection of links for quicker reference.

 

[Lasu]

Great list, thank you!

 

[Heliocentrical]

580mb for PcMark??

Why is the file so big?

Is there anything smaller. I just want to know what the performance difference is between these two scenarios:

AMD 64 3200+ @ 2.0ghz
1gig pc3200 ddr

&

AMD 64 3200+ @ 2.2ghz
1gig pc2700 ddr

Thanks - Aratech

 

[dtess17]

very well done

 

[burningrave101]

There are some more programs you could add in this list here:

http://www.hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=975365

 

[tehehe]

Lol i got banned, PM a mod to Edit it....

 

[burningrave101]

Lol i got banned, PM a mod to Edit it....

Good job .

Someone should add Windows Memtest to the list for sure because its the best stress test for the memory. It works much better then Memtest86 and you can run it from within Windows.

 

[fede777]

Hi, i would add Sisoft Sandra 2007 to the list or change it for 2005

 

[MrMeikel]

I was just told this by someone

"the next version of 3d mark will use your normal clock speeds, regardless of whether you overclock"

this can't be true... can it?

 

[BIOS9]

Verrry helpful for conducting a torture test =D

 

[NTJedi]

The moderators need to add Microsofts memory testing application to the original topic.

It's called mtinst.exe and can be found here: http://oca.microsoft.com/en/windiag.asp