just bought a refurb laptop and want to give it a workout to check it can cope

there seem to be lots of benchmarky type things – anyone know one that’s quickish and needs no expertise on my part ?

Ta

1. Why?

2. Geekbench – $13.

3. Cinebench – Free

Prime95 is one of the classic stress tests, but for benchmarking / seeing where it’s at now I agree with Jamie, GeekBench is the way to go. The 32 bit version is free, 64 bit not.

why? – to check that it behaves itself when everything gets worked hard – it’s a refurb so may have been faulty 1st time round (or maybe just unwanted)

easier to send it beck early on (DSR etc)

Or is this pointless anyway ?? (I’m not a computery person so just assuming this would be a worthwhile check)

Cheers

run anything from Microsoft…..that’ll do the trick 😉

chrispy – One of those that stresses the user but leaves the processor idle ?

(it is windows I’m on)

Prime’s always done the job for me- cooks failing setups effectively, and no system I’ve tested with it’s ever subsequently overheated (well, not til it got full of dust anyway)

iTunes?

joke……..