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Benchmark Software For Windows 7 Rollout?

Posted by timothy on from the bean-counter-for-the-bean-counters dept.

tdisalvo writes "We are doing a Windows 7 rollout and I will have to compare major PC vendors. I am looking for vendor-neutral tests that will give me the data I need to present an educated opinion to my CIO. Clear, pretty charts are nice since it is for C level execs, and we need to make it understandable for nontechnical as well as technical people. More specifically, I am looking for something that will clearly show how the same processor performs (better or worse) with a particular build, motherboard, RAM, power supply, etc. My plan is to get very similar machines from major vendors and see which one's build has the highest independent benchmarks. Something with which I could test multiple computers and report on the differences in score would be ideal." As usual, free is an advantage.

3 of 215 comments (clear)

  1. Phoronix Test Suite by mtippett · · Score: 5, Informative

    Phoronix Test Suite ( http://www.phoronix-test-suite.com/ ) supports Win7 now. It also allows comparison against OSX and Linux ( http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=linux_windows_part3&num=1 ).

    It's Free, it's Open Source and has a bucketload of tests already. You can combine result sets and you can even get the results uploaded for comparison at http://global.phoronix-test-suite.com/

    Creating your own tests is nice and easy too.

    (Full disclosure - I am one of the project members).

  2. Pointless... by MarcQuadra · · Score: 5, Informative

    This is pointless. Really. All the machines will test within a few percent of each other. It's not like a Dell is significantly faster than an HP (especially if the software image is the same).

    If the machines have different CPU/Chipsets/Video Cards, that's a different story, but a PC -is- really just the sum of its parts.

    Tell the C-level execs that the best value would be to skip the benchmark and go right to the bidding, let the vendors undercut each other for an extra month.

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  3. Re:Phoronix Test Suite by Amouth · · Score: 4, Informative

    "Runs On Linux, OpenSolaris, Mac OS X, Windows 7, & BSD Operating Systems"

    according to the link you posted

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