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Welcome to PCMark™04Congratulations on installing PCMark04, the latest version of the PC performance benchmark program from Futuremark Corporation. This unique program provides an accurate and consistent assessment of the performance of your PC in general home environment usage. PCMark04 can be easily obtained and it is easy to install and run. The program utilizes mostly public code, but some commercial applications are also included in measuring computer performance.
By using PCMark04 and the Online ResultBrowser, you can get:
- A PCMark score - recognised and comparable measurement of the home environment performance of your PC.
- Detailed results of all tests.
- A comparison of your machine against thousands of others, from every corner of the globe!
- An educated estimate as to how much better your system will perform with certain upgrades.
Introduction to PCMark™04PCMark04 is an analytical tool for measuring the overall performance of PCs in a home environment usage, for today and tomorrow. Its ease of use and availability, make it an essential program for any PC user to own! Beginners and experts alike can use PCMark04 - the default benchmark is activated with a single click, but it also contains various testing options and tools.
Professional testers and reviewers often need to examine specific functions of the PC, such as memory subsystem, or hard disk performance. PCMark04 contains the extra tools needed by such users; a simple online purchase is all that is required to obtain full functionality of PCMark04.
PCMark04 highlights:
Note: The results and scores of PCMark04 are not comparable with PCMark2002 or any other Futuremark benchmarks.
- 13 tests to measure system-wide performance.
- Additional tests to measure individual components, such as memory or hard disk drive.
- PCMark score, which is calculated from the system tests describing the overall performance of your PC.
- CPU, Memory, Graphics and HDD scores to describe the performance of your PC's components.
- Multithreaded tests. The default run includes three pairs of the tests run simultaneously. You can also select the tests you prefer to be run simultaneously.
- Opportunity to create own customized test suites.
PCMark04 tests stress the following:
- The CPU (Central Processing Unit), both with integer and floating point workloads.
- The memory subsystem.
- Graphics memory, including the AGP (Advanced Graphics Port) bus.
- 2D & 3D graphics capabilities
- The Hard Disk Drive(s).
System RequirementsPCMark04 is a benchmark tool used to examine PC systems for their ability to run tests that represent common home use of a PC. Therefore, older systems may not have the functions or power needed.
Minimum system requirements are as follows:
- Intel® or AMD® compatible processor with about 1 GHz clock speed.
- 128MB of system memory.
- 60MB of hard disk space (and additional 130 MB free space for HDD testing)
- DirectX 7 generation graphics adapter that is fully DirectX 7 compliant.
- Windows 2000 or XP operating system.
- DirectX 9.0 or higher runtime installed (download).
- Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 installed, for Internet Browsing test and SystemInfo (download).
- Microsoft Media Player 9 installed (download)
- Microsoft Media Encoder 9 installed (download)
Futuremark recommends that for the best possible benchmarking experience, the system should at least be:
- Intel® or AMD® compatible processor operating at 1.7 GHz clock speed.
- 256 MB of system memory.
- It is possible that PCMark04 will run on PCs that do not meet the above requirements but the benchmark performance may be seriously affected. For example, insufficient CPU or memory performance may result in extended run times in certain tests.
PCMark04 FeaturesPCMark04 comes in three versions: PCMark04 Free, PCMark04 Professional and PCMark04 Business Edition. The Free version is available (without charge) to download and install but it has only limited functionality. The Professional Edition can be purchased from our internet shop and it has the full functionality of PCMark04. The Business Edition has the features of the Pro version but allows business use of the benchmark. Please read the license agreement for details on licensing.
The features in PCMark04 Free are:
- System tests, presenting the total PCMark score.
- System Info, showing your PC hardware and system software in detail.
- Online services. Submit your results and compare them to PCMark04 results from all over the world.
- Detailed result information.
The features in PCMark04 Professional and Business Edition are:
- System Test Suite, presenting the PCMark score.
- Memory Test Suite, giving Memory score.
- Graphics Test Suite including 2D and 3D content, giving Graphics score.
- HDD Test Suite and HDD score.
- System Info, showing your PC hardware and system software in detail.
- Fully customizable benchmarking by choosing the desired tests and settings for the benchmark run.
- Possibility to select which tests are run simultaneously multithreaded.
- Online services. Submit your results and compare them to PCMark04 results from all over the world.
- PCMark04 Pro ORB.
- Detailed result information, possibility to export results to Microsoft Excel.
PCMark04 was built using the following third party software components:
- Microsoft® DirectX® 9 3D application programming interface (www.microsoft.com/directx/).
- Microsoft® Windows Media Encoder 9 video compression tool(www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/9series/encoder/default.aspx)
- Microsoft® Windows Media Player 9 video playback software (www.microsoft.com/mediaplayer)
- Havok Total real-time physics library from Havok (www.havok.com) - these routines are used to accurately model the movements of objects due to forces, etc. in the Physics&3D test
- Graphics adapter analysis software from Powerstrip of Entech Taiwan (www.entechtaiwan.com) - this is used to correctly determine the speeds of the graphics processing and video memory chips, plus supply additional hardware information.
- DivX™ Video, technology owned by DivXNetworks, Inc (http://www.divx.com/). DivX technology is used in Video encoding and playback tests.
- F-Secure virus scanning engine (www.f-secure.com), copyright owned by F-Secure Corporation. Virus scanner is used in Virus scanning test.
- RankDisk Hard disk testing program, copyright owned by Intel Corporation (www.intel.com). RankDisk is used in the hard disk drive tests.
- Perforce source control software by Perforce Software Inc. (www.perforce.com) has been used in the development of PCMark04.
Other Futuremark Benchmarks3DMark03
3DMark®03 Pro is the latest version of the highly favoured 3DMark series. By combining full DirectX®9.0a support with completely new tests and graphics, 3DMark03 Pro continues the legacy of being the 3D industry's standard benchmark.PCMark2002
PCMark2002 is the first version of the PCMark series for testing all kinds of PCs, from laptops to high-end workstations. PCMark2002 is designed to assess the performance of a PC under normal home and office PC usage.BAPCo/Futuremark SYSmark2002
BAPCo/Futuremark's SYSmark2002 is the industry standard application-based benchmark, testing your system's ability to run today's leading edge software applications for Internet Content Creation and Office Productivity. SYSmark2002's standardized testing and reporting guidelines ensure reliable and repeatable results.BAPCo/Futuremark Mobilemark2002
BAPCo/Futuremark's Mobilemark2002 is an application-based benchmark like SYSmark, but designed for notebook computer performance measurement. The primary purpose of this benchmark is to measure how long a mobile computer can run on a single battery charge. The user has the choice of running MobileMark under a Productivity workload or a Reader workload, which simulate two different usage models.The above products are available for purchase at www.futuremark.com/products.
Futuremark's On-Line ServicesOnline ResultBrowser
The Online ResultBrowser (ORB) lets you review your results in detail on-line and compares your scores with results from PC users all over the world. The ORB also gives you valuable insight on ways you can improve your computer's performance.
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