The Beast
A little blog about my gaming machine..
Sunday 25 November 2007, 8:02 PM
Benchmarking.
I discovered benchmarking, which became the search for the holy grail of faster frame rates. I perform a benchmark before & after every hardware upgrade & after every defragmentation. I started off with Futuremark's 3DMark2001SE, from http://www.madonion.com. The first test I ever did scored a measly 2,713 points, just over 5 years ago (10/11/02). This score reflects the upgrade of graphics card to a GeForce4 MX 420.
To illustrate the vast difference, between then & now, I recently scored 42,820, on 07/09/07.
These scores mean absolutely nothing however, unless the machine does what you want it to. I love playing high-end games like (currently) Crysis, Need For Speed: Pro Street, Two Worlds, Tiger Woods '08, Race '07, etc. I've found that lower end games, like the loveable Links 2003 or Shot-Online golf games, still benefit greatly from high end hardware.
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