One famous Russian comedian in his speeches often emphasizes that Russian people and curiosity are inseparable concepts. It's hard to argue with that. Having bought a music center, hardly anyone can at least once not turn the volume control to the maximum position.
And it’s not at all because it is really necessary, but just like that ... Yes, and any happy owner of a new car can not resist, so as not to check the speed ceiling. A person is simply interested. Everyone can find in their memoirs a lot of similar life examples.
Checking your computer is another opportunity to satisfy your curiosity. Working behind the screen of a computing system and not knowing how many arbitrary units (the so-called "parrots") it gives out is not about our person. A computer scan can have two purposes: identifying failures and determining performance potential. The latter allows you to objectively compare this system with others, which is in demand, in particular, when purchasing new components. Sometimes a program for checking a computer, to a large extent loading internal blocks with calculations, quite successfully solves two problems at once. We’ll talk about such applications today.
Testing your computer’s performance includes testing three main components that affect the speed index. This is a central processor, video adapter and RAM.
Sometimes a hard drive is included in this list, but this is not entirely true: choosing a high-performance system based on data from measurements of the speed of the hard drive is not the best solution.
Thus, a computer scan requires the installation of the necessary software. It is worth noting the 3DMark package from Futuremark (for the video subsystem); diagnostic complex SiSoft Sandra. For a more advanced result, we can recommend AIDA64 and Victoria (hard disk). Of course, this is not the last resort, since there are several dozens of programs whose task is to scan a computer.
So the video. The 3DMark package is presented in several versions - 2001, 2003, 2005, Vantage, etc. For modern systems, you must select the latest version. Correctness of comparison is achieved by running the test by default (this is an unwritten standard). When working on the screen, excerpts of three-dimensional videos from non-existent games are displayed using the latest technologies for constructing 3D images. The result of the program is a digital index. The higher it is, the more productive the system.
To check the speed of performing mathematical operations, SiSoft Sandra is used. After installation, proceed to the "Performance" section, select "Central Processing Unit" and click the "Update" button. The test starts. At this time, it is better not to use the computer for other tasks. As a result, a window with graphs will be shown, allowing you to compare your result with other systems. In the same way, you need to check multimedia performance and not forget about the bandwidth of RAM. Data obtained in different Sandra versions cannot be compared.
Having these three results (actually six, since they are dual), you can get an idea of the performance of your computer.