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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. [url= http://www.primatelabs.com/geekbench/ ]Geekbench - $13[/url].
3. [url= http://www.maxon.net/products/cinebench/overview.html ]Cinebench - Free[/url]
[url= http://www.mersenne.org/ ]Prime95[/url] is one of the classic stress tests, but for benchmarking / seeing where it's at now I agree with Jamie, [url= http://www.primatelabs.com/geekbench/ ]GeekBench[/url] 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 [i][b]is[/b][/i] 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........