Here's a little teaser....

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s7e9h3n & dave_graham

SiSoftware Sandra: http://www.sisoftware.co.uk/index.ht...buy&langx=en&a
-Arithmatic, Multimedia, Multi-core efficiency, Mem Bandwidth, Mem Latency, Cache and Memory Latency benchmarks.

Include EVEREST Memory Read/Write bandwidth please.

CrystalMark: http://www.softpedia.com/get/Tweak/S...stalMark.shtml
- ALU, FPU, MEM test. Not bothered about HDD, GDI, D2D, OGL.

wPrime: http://www.wprime.net/download.html
- 32M and 1024M if you overclock.

WinRAR: http://www.rarlab.com/download.htm
- Tools> Benchmark and hardware test.

ScienceMark: http://www.start64.com/index.php?opt...d=72&Itemid=76
- (couldn't find any more recent x64 Windows edition) File > Run all benchmarks.

TrueCrypt: http://www.truecrypt.org/downloads.php
- Tools . Benchmark > 100MB and 1GB buffer size.

You can do PassMark two CPU and one Mem test aswell: http://www.start64.com/index.php?opt...id=34&Itemid=1

SuperPi 1M and 32M would be good too for comparison please.

Just run whatever the damn you can I'd ask for server benches but I damn well know how costly they are. All above should run on x64 Windoze though and gives us a good allround indication.

Gaming benchmarks? That wouldn't interest me unless you wade through which games at what stage/settings are CPU bottlenecked and then test to compare. Cheers.

EDIT:
I forgot POV-Ray rendering: http://www.povray.org/download/
QX6850 gets 98 seconds in 3.7 and E6850 gets 196 sec.

Valve Map Compilation, Particle Simulation bench would be good.

If you can, run a single/dual core only to see the power and scaling of that in comparison to quads/octal. News outlet bloggers are going on about Core 2 being more powerful as in single core efficiency because of its 4-execution engine, so I'd like to see how this compares.

As always, thanks!