Benchmarking tools?

Techmo34 has it. I've seen Prime95 around the net and at a couple of different over clocking sites they use it a lot among the hardcore over clocker's. 3DMark has been around for a long time and a lot of print magazines and professional review sites use it. Even seen 3DMark scores talked about around this site.

+1 for what techmo34 already posted.

In addition to those try these. For hard drive benchmarking/testing try either HD Tach http://www.simplisoftware.com/Public/index.php?request=... or HD Tune http://www.hdtune.com/

For a great benchmarking/information program try PC Wizard 2009 http://www.cpuid.com/pcwizard.php it is extremely useful.

Of course CPUZ http://www.cpuid.com/cpuz.php Actually anything from the CPUID people is generally great.

If you want a pure speed test try Super Pi. There are several variants just Google it.

If you want to monitor temps. then Real Temp http://www.techpowerup.com/realtemp/ Core Temp http://www.alcpu.com/CoreTemp/ and Speedfan http://www.almico.com/sfdownload.php are all good to have.

And the last one I can think of would be RivaTuner http://www.guru3d.com/index.php?page=rivatuner

Hope that helps!

Thanks for the help, I will give these all a shot.