Benchmarks

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Swampbug

Could someone here recommend a good benchmark program, preferable free,
besides 3dMark0whatever. I am not into gaming but do CAD and plenty video
editing etc. I often play with large files but mostly common home activity.
.. .internet, word processing and such. I have a Radeon x1300xt video board
and am using TrayTools to manage it. I am using an Abit K9N mobo with an AMD
Athlon 64 X2 3800+ AM2 processor with 2gb of Dual DDR2 667mhz memory.
 
I am not into gaming but do CAD and plenty video
editing etc.
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For video editing the only thing which matters is plenty of RAM and your
HD speed. The vid card's not going to be stressed at all. And I'd expect
pretty much any card from recent years to be more than a match for CAD
applications. There may be some that use 3D acceleration though, I'm not
sure. Either way, I'd imagine you'd want something fairly CAD-specific
to test performance, and apart from messing about with the rather nifty
Sketchup (worth a look for anyone who likes a software toy to play
with), I've no CAD experience.

Andrew McP
 
Thank you for your response.

Glad to know I have made some good choices in hardware. Still, a way to
tweak display adaptor, system performance etc is a need of mine. I just
thought a benchmark not specific to gaming would best suit my needs. I have
done only a perfunctory search as I am not sure of important details from
the best benchmark. I am hoping for some expertise here.
 
Swampbug said:
Could someone here recommend a good benchmark program, preferable free,
besides 3dMark0whatever. I am not into gaming but do CAD and plenty video
editing etc. I often play with large files but mostly common home
activity. . .internet, word processing and such. I have a Radeon x1300xt
video board and am using TrayTools to manage it. I am using an Abit K9N
mobo with an AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800+ AM2 processor with 2gb of Dual DDR2
667mhz memory.
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It's now absurdly outdated, but I must admit to still using Wintune
http://tucows.mundofree.com/winnt/preview/5201.html
Mainly because I have a database going back many years, and it show the
improvements in cpu, memory, 2d, 3d, and disk speed separately - so I use it
as an alert on any problems.

Still works OK for XP - just use the NT download.
may suit you as it does show 2d performance separate from 3D (Directx).
Lol
 
up until I built this system I was using Final Reality from Remedy something
or other. It just cant handle this new radeon x1300xt!
 
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