Set up a drive for benchmarking PC's

[minigaming]

Hi,

Just looking to do some benchmarking on multiple PC's. Any tips/recommendations for setups or software to make life easier since I've never done it before? Should I have a clean windows install up to the initial set up screen and clone that over every time I move to a new PC or would having the games installed on the drive beforehand be okay and just install the video drivers on each PC benchmarked.

Any suggestions appreciated.

 

[USAFRet]

As painful as it may be, you should start a new OS install on each machine.
Otherwise, you'll never really know what you're benchmarking...the partial OS install or the actual hardware differences.

 

[minigaming]

I see. Thought there might have been some other options these days. Okay, thanks for that. I will just keep the USB key with updated with the latest windows install.