PCMark04 is already a useful application as it is, but the Online ResultBrowser brings out the real advantage of the software. You can compare your System's performance against systems with other CPUs, or the same CPU, but higher clocked etc. The Online ResultBrowser lets you compare results for all PCMark04 tests and with a number of comparison criteria.

And this is only the beginning. Since the Online ResultBrowser is on-line, we are able to constantly develop and improve the services we offer. Therefore, we recommend that you try our Online ResultBrowser immediately and come back every now and then to see what new features have been developed since your last visit.

Our results database

When you have finished running PCMark04, we hope that you continue by accessing our Online ResultBrowser to submit your result to our database. This allows you to compare your results with PCs from around the world. Your results will not be publicly displayed and there is no way anybody can locate your results or find out which ones belong to you (that is, unless you choose to "publish" your results and share them with your colleagues). The results we collect will be used for generating statistics and recommendations for other users. This means that every result you submit will help other users select reliable hardware upgrades and their submitted results will give you more reliable information about the performance of hardware other than what you currently have in your system.

There is also a separate "Submit Saved Results" functionality in PCMark04 for submitting earlier run benchmarks, for example, from another PC. Read this part of the help files for more info.

Compare

It is nice to get a score for the performance of your PC, but it is even more valuable if you can compare that score with other systems. Futuremark's on-line services offer several different ways to compare scores. You can look at several different statistics from the results in our database or you can take a look at results submitted and publicly posted by other users. Also, if you want to squeeze every bit of power from your PC, remember to visit our discussion forum and ask for tuning advice from the highly talented people in the Futuremark community.

Discussion board

The Futuremark discussion board is a great place to hang out on the web. Here, people interested in PC performance meet from all around the world. There are TONS of posts in the Futuremark discussion forum, and if you have the time to read through some of these, you are bound to find some valuable information about PC performance. The discussion forum is also a good place to ask questions, get answers, and give feedback about Futuremark, our benchmarks, and on-line services.

You can also discuss PC performance in real-time in our Futuremark chat. There are highly skilled moderators and other performance gurus from the Futuremark community, who are discussing the very latest in PC performance. It is also possible that there will be someone from the Futuremark staff taking part in these conversations. This is your chance to give real-time feedback about PCMark, 3DMark, and other Futuremark benchmarks and on-line services. You can also try your luck in finding out what Futuremark will be working on next, but many details about upcoming products are classified until closer to the time of their release.