Be sure to keep an eye on this feed too - we'll be periodically offering promotions or coupons you can use at our store.

With the release of the release candidate, we've released minor updates for our major products to ensure they offer full support for Windows 7 for both 32-bit and 64-bit platforms. If you encounter any compatibility problems with any of our releases, please let us know!

We'd like to thank PerformanceTest's userbase for helping to make this possible in such a short amount of time. You can check out new baselines, statistical graphs and compare your hardware at CPU Benchmarks, Video Card Benchmarks, Hard Drive Benchmarks and System Benchmarks.

• Performance and Reliability Software Customization and Development;
• Independent Benchmarking Labs; and
• Hardware and Software Market Product Comparison and Trends Analysis.

You can find out more information about what we can help you with here!

We've also introduced a new graph to illustrate vendor Hard Drive marketshare over the past 30 days - and as expected, Western Digital (WD) and Seagate have the majority of the market at a little over 30% each. Despite the fact that this graph is biased towards the enthusiast market, it appears that Intel has made very little impact with its high performance Solid State Drives (SSD), capturing less than 0.2% of the market to date.

To celebrate, we've added three new benchmark charts:

• The CPU Popularity Chart - Find out which CPUs have been the most popular with everyone over the last 30 days. Does popular opinion favour value for money, or overall top-end CPU performance?
• Multi-CPU Benchmarks Chart - If you've been looking to buy a top performing server CPU, this handy chart will help you quickly compare our benchmark results for multi-CPUs.
• Intel vs AMD Market Share Chart - Witness the tussle between CPU manufacturing titans, Intel and AMD, for your CPU dollar! Have Intel already won the fight?
]]> cpubenchmark http://www.passmark.com/products/pt.htm Friday, 27 Feb 2009 02:00:00 GMT Version 7 of our popular benchmarking program, PerformanceTest, is here!

Among other new features, Version 7 of PerformanceTest boasts a redesigned user interface that gives users access to detailed system information in a new, interactive components display. The main interface has been recreated to streamline the benchmarking process, with all major PerformanceTest benchmark accessible from the side pane.

Many of our existing benchmark tests have been optimized and intensified to reflect improvements in newer technology, making the overall PassMark Rating more accurate and vital for system comparisons.

Our new Visualised Physics engine gives users the chance to experiment with a wide range of customizable environmental settings, such as gravity, air resistance, explosions and more! Users can create intense, physics-based simulations which are not only entertaining, but also demonstrate our new Physics CPU test. Benchmarking your CPU has never been so much fun!

PC gamers, video editors and developers will also like the new DirectX 10 3D test, which can objectively rank all the latest and greatest DirectX 10 compatible video cards. We’ve also overhauled most of the 2D test suite, and have included a new Complex Vector and Image Filtering test.

If you’d like to read more about the new features in version 7, you can check out our What's New? for more details. If you’ve never used PerformanceTest before, there’s never been a better time to try it out! For this release, we’ve removed almost all restrictions in the trial version so everyone can participate in uploading and downloading baselines.

PerformanceTest Version 7 is priced at $24 dollars, or as part of a special bundle with our stress-testing utility BurnInTest for only $44. Purchase it today and achieve your PC’s full potential.

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