How to benchmark your computer?

[VictorNguyen]

I just finished my workstation build. I'm wondering what's the best way to benchmark it to see where's the bottleneck is at. I want to benchmark the CPU, GPU and the harddrives.

[T.Vengeance]

3DMark

 

Nevermind.

[Mateyyy]

CPU: Use Cinebench.

GPU: Heaven Benchmark, 3DMark

 

Don't really know hard drive benchmarks..

[ericlee30]

For the HDD's use Crystal disk mark

[VictorNguyen]

For the HDD's use Crystal disk mark

I can use this to benchmark SSD too right? 

[Guest]

By the way you should Shortstroke your hard drives

[Guest]

Back to the topic, if you want to see where is the bottleneck in your build you should fire up a game, let it run for a bit, and then open your task manager, if your Gpu usage is way too low it means that you probably have a faulty card, need to play more intensive games a bit, or a bottleneck... You can also benchmark your FPS, if you got same FPS on ultra and same on low graphics settings this is a sign of a heavy bottleneck..

 

EDIT: Can you provide us with some specs please?

[ericlee30]

I can use this to benchmark SSD too right? 

That is correct.

[VictorNguyen]

Back to the topic, if you want to see where is the bottleneck in your build you should fire up a game, let it run for a bit, and then open your task manager, if your Gpu usage is way too low it means that you probably have a faulty card, need to play more intensive games a bit, or a bottleneck... You can also benchmark your FPS, if you got same FPS on ultra and same on low graphics settings this is a sign of a heavy bottleneck..

 

EDIT: Can you provide us with some specs please?

Here is the specs

 

CPU: I7-4930k

 

CPU Cooler: Corsair H100i 

 

GPU: EVGA Geforce 760 4GB FTW

 

MOBO: Asus x79 Deluxe

 

Ram: G-Skill Trident X DDR3 2400. 8GB x 4 (Total of 32gb)

 

Case: Fractal Design Define R4

 

OS: Windows 8.1

 

PSU: Seasonic 760w Platinum

 

Hard Disk Configuration: Samsung 256 pro SSD: OS and programs

                                       

                                       Crucial M550 256 SSD: Scratch Disk for premier pro

  

                                       (4) 2TB Western Digital Black Drive to be put in Raid 10 configuration. Still haven't done it yet.

 

 

So one problem that  I found is when I set the clockspeed of the ram to 2400 in the bios, it restart saying overclocked fail. Does anyone have any ideas why?

 

I'll benchmark using the sofware like everyone recommends and post the result. 

[VictorNguyen]

Okay, here are my benchmarks. Please let me know if this is good.

 

Cinebench: Open GL: 95.56      CPU: 1162 cb

 

LuxMark: Open CL PGU 1158

 

Crystal Disk Mark: So my OS drive, Samsung pro SSD read and write around 500 and 400 respectively. But my other SSD, a Crucial m550 only reads and writes in the 300-400 range. Am I plugging into the wrong Sata port?