Question about benchmarking

[Sou| Colossus]

When you benchmark in a game (not 3dmark), are you supposed to disable sound?

I went from 300~ to 383 FPS in Quake3 when I disabled my SBLive! in device manager.

Is this the norm?

 

[xonik]

It seems to vary between reviewers. If I did reviews I would keep the sound on while benchmarking, because that's how people use their computers anyways.