Benchmarking Software...

Nemo

I've just got 2Gb of RAM to put into my four year old XP laptop to replace the 512Mb it currently has. I realise that just using the laptop post-upgrade will (hopefully) show a noticable performance increase, but would like to run some FREE performance benchmarking software before and after just to show me how much of a difference it's made.

Any recommendations? I've just been Googling and was looking at PC Wizard 2010, but I don't like installing software unless I'm confident it's going to be what I need.

Cheers!

fwor

If it's the same as (or better than) the benchmark tools that come with PCWizard2008, it should do what you need for a before/after snapshot. There are other benchmark tools that can provide a more quantitative analysis, but that's simply more complicated than you need.

Darksun

It really depends what tasks you're undertaking to say what difference upgrading the RAM will make, so depending on what exactly the benchmark measures then the results may be misleading

closed

The main difference you will see is faster boot time, and faster application load time, which are easy enough to assess with a stopwatch rather than slowing the system down with software.

You could try bootvis if you really want a software solution.

totalsolutions

>faster boot time
Not really

>faster application load time
Not really

Faster re-application load time
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