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Old 06-24-2004, 04:17 AM   #1
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Angry Fire how to test system?

hello.

i recently bought a used computer. i want to test its performance whcih software do you recommend i use.

secondly, i want to find out what the current CPU speed, how much L2 cache does the CPU has. which program i can use to find out all those informations.

thirdly. i want to find out what brnad of motherboard am my computer is using.
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Old 06-24-2004, 05:10 AM   #2
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Cool

Aida32 should be able to answer questions 2 and 3.

http://www.pcworld.com/downloads/fil...RSS,RSS,00.asp

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Testing depends on what you're looking for. For stability under load, use Prime95. For memory integrity/error checking use Memtest86 or Memtest86+. For comparitive benchmarking, go to PCPitstop.com or PCMark04 (primarily CPU test). Or use 3DMark03 for Vid card testing.
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Old 06-24-2004, 09:36 AM   #4
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Try this

Tells Ya What You Need about your computer......


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