The Test:

BAPCo SYSmark 2001 - benchmark utilizing the latest internet content creation and office applications: Adobe Photoshop 6, Adobe Premiere 6, Macromedia Dreamweaver 4, Macromedia Flash 5, Windows Media Encoder 7, Microsoft Office 2000, Dragon Naturally Speaking 5, Netscape 6, Winzip 8.0, and McAfee VirusScan 5.13. This benchmark can give a good idea of a system's real world performance.

MadOnion 3DMark 2001 - an excellent benchmark that provides system graphics performance using DirectX 8. Since we want to get as far away from the graphics bottleneck as possible for this test, we have set the test settings at 640x480 16-bit.

SiSoft Sandra 2001TE - what test would be complete without this? Sandra gives you a great look at your systems CPU, memory, and hard drive performance.