What is the best benchmarking program?

[Lefty24]

I was wondernig what is the best benchmarking program for your whole compute, not just for your graphics card, memory, or cpu. Is there one program for all that works good? thanks

 

[codax]

pcmark04 ?

 

[zip22]

there isnt one. different programs test different things. prime95 does a good mix, but no video.

the different tests are designed for different users and to test specific parts. thats much more useful than 1 single test. that way, you can know what you have to spend money on to make your computer better
if everything was mixed together, and you got a score of 30000 for the all around benching program, you wouldnt know your strengths or weaknesses.

 

[Drop-Top]

3dmark01,03 for graphics.
Prime95, superPI, and PCmark04 for processing power.
Sisoft sandra for everything.