Interpreting/comparing benchmark results

[beaky]

Only recently made some attempts at OCing my system, and trying to learn more. Just DLd Everest Home freeware program, and it's very impressive but I'm not sure what I'm looking at and can't find much help with it. I'd like to know more, rather than submitting my results and having someone give me the thumbs-up or -down based on my system specs.
 Can anybody explain, in noob terms, some basic criteria for interpreting benchmarking results?

[GunnerMan]

Well you did the Memory Bandwth I assume, thats basically the amunt of megabytes you ram can compunicate with the CPU in 1 second if im not mistaken. So I have about 1800 megs a second because of my SLOW ram but with faster ram I get up around 3500 megs a second. It basically compares you to other computers simmilar to yours. As for 3dmark etc its just points in 3dmark01 20-25,000 points is good ans 30 k and above is excelent, below 20k is average. You just gotta learn whats good and bad by reading up on peoples scores with their system, because if someone hs the same system as me but I overclocked and got 1000 mre points thats good for my system so theres the big picture and the little picture. How 3dmark calcualtes your points? well I dont know maybe 3dmark website does though. Hope I helped some....

[congo]

Everest has some benchmark tests at the bottom of it's menu. After the test, it shows your results in a window and compares it with many different PC configurations.

You look in the list for a similar configuration to your PC and compare it to your result.

To choose a similar model PC to your's for comparison, you need to match as closely as possible the exact chipset, CPU speed and RAM type/speed.

If you can't find a comparitive PC in the list, you may not be configured properly. If your PC shows a below average result in the comparison, you may not be configured properly, especially if there is a large discrepency.

Repeated tests will show you if your tweaking efforts are producing real and measurable results.

Another good program, and probably a bit more comprehensive in the benchmarks, is SiSoft Sandra Lite 2005.

http://www.sisoftware.co.uk/?dir=dload& ... angx=en&a=

Everest can be used to get other system info that helps us overclock and tweak, such as verification of cpu speed, front side bus speed and ram timings.

[Dan]

Well my OC and my scores for Mark01 and 03 are in my 'new' siggy picture.  ;D