This is an absolute must have for any PC gamer and is regularly on sale for extremely cheap so there is no excuse not to get it. It has standardized benchmarks which gives you a performance score for your hardware that enables you to see if it is running on par with others who have the same hardware configuration and quantify the difference in performance between upgrades and over-clocks. It has robust stability tests which will ferret out any instabilities your graphical hardware might have. It also gives full logs of temperatures, clocks, and loads so you can fully monitor and document exactly what your hardware is doing.

Running graphical benchmarks gives you a score and it is compared to the scores of people who have run it with the same hardware as you have. This allows you to tell if your PC is running as well as it should be. 3DMark gives you an average and top score for your configuration of hardware for you to compare your results with. This is great because when I overclock I have an accurate idea of what I should be shooting for. Then running the same benchmark multiple times between changing your hardware parameters allows you to compare your differing scores and quantify over-clocking gains.

Stress testing allows you to make sure your hardware is running well in the first place assuring that you don't have any bad components. It also allows you to test if your over-clock is game stable by providing various workloads which fully load your GPU.

This has been an absolute staple for me over the years of building and overclocking gaming PCs. I don't know what I would have done without this amazing set of tools which is always being updated for the latest hardware and software advancements.

No matter if you are a casual gamer or a hardware enthusiast you should own this program.

The only thing missing from this suite is a graphical benchmark that simultaneously loads your CPU while it is running; so far only the demos do that. I would like a benchmark which can accurately show me what my CPU/GPU temperatures would be while gaming with a varying loads on my CPU. I understand I can do this by running something like Prime95 in the background but I really think it ought to be built into 3DMark.

9/10

This is an absolute must have for any PC gamer and is regularly on sale for extremely cheap so there is no excuse not to get it. It has standardized benchmarks which gives you a performance score for your hardware that enables you to see if it is running on par with others who have the same hardware configuration and quantify the difference in performance between upgrades and over-clocks. It has robust stability tests which will ferret out any instabilities your graphical hardware might have. It also gives full logs of temperatures, clocks, and loads so you can fully monitor and document exactly what your hardware is doing. Running graphical benchmarks gives you a score and it is compared to the scores of people who have run it with the same hardware as you have. This allows you to tell if your PC is running as well as it should be. 3DMark gives you an average and top score for your configuration of hardware for you to compare your results with. This is great because when I overclock I have an accurate idea of what I should be shooting for. Then running the same benchmark multiple times between changing your hardware parameters allows you to compare your differing scores and quantify over-clocking gains. Stress testing allows you to make sure your hardware is running well in the first place assuring that you don't have any bad components. It also allows you to test if your over-clock is game stable by providing various workloads which fully load your GPU. This has been an absolute staple for me over the years of building and overclocking gaming PCs. I don't know what I would have done without this amazing set of tools which is always being updated for the latest hardware and software advancements. No matter if you are a casual gamer or a hardware enthusiast you should own this program. The only thing missing from this suite is a graphical benchmark that simultaneously loads your CPU while it is running; so far only the demos do that. I would like a benchmark which can accurately show me what my CPU/GPU temperatures would be while gaming with a varying loads on my CPU. I understand I can do this by running something like Prime95 in the background but I really think it ought to be built into 3DMark. 9/10