What's the best free benchmarking software?

[snidy]

I don't want to spend any money, I'm just wondering how my computer will do in a benchmark test.

 

[arod324]

It depends on what you want to test your computer on. 3dmark2k1 is a pretty good one for overall performance. (and more slanted towards video cards). SiSoft would be a good all purpose benchmarking utility.

 

[snidy]

I want to test Video,CPU, and ram speed.

 

[arod324]

3dmark2k1 is a pretty good "realworld" benchmark and a whole bunch of people use it, so it is easy to compare with people.
However, if you want a bunch of synthetic information.... SiSoft can give you a whole bunch of stuff on ram, cpu's, harddrives.. etc.

 

[inqztive]

any link for 3dmark2k1 ???

 

[snidy]

http://gamershq.madonion.com/

 

[Shooters]

Sisoft Sandra for memory and cpu
Hardrive Tach for hard drives
cdspeed and dvdspeed for optical drives
3DMark2001 for 3D and overall system performance

All free