CustomPC Media Benchmarks

Download from: www.custompc.co.uk/benchmarks

Custom PC, bit-tech's sister magazine, has developed its own Media Benchmarks to simulate the tasks that most of us perform on a regular basis. There are three tests, each of which measure different aspects of a PC's performance.

You can download the suite from the link above, and submit your score to the benchmark leaderboard to see how your PC compares with those of others.

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Again the Athlon II excels itself compared to previous AMD CPUs, as it's a significant 28 percent faster than the Phenom X2 7850 BE, and even outperforms the E5200 at stock speeds by 25 seconds, it's nearly 40 seconds behind when both CPUs are overclocked.

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Again, the overclocked Intel E5200 claims the lead here, but only by seven percent over the overclocked Athlon II. Both CPUs are a significant way ahead of the rest of the pack though, which sit much closer together. At stock speeds the Athlon II is the clear leader though, as it even outperforms the overclocked 7850 BE and 6000+ CPUs!