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PC Performance Analysis
PCMark05 is everything you need to reliably and easily measure the performance of your PC and determine its strengths and weaknesses. With PCMark05, you will be able to select the optimal upgrades for your existing PC, or choose the right new PC that fits your specific needs. This easy-to-use product gives you the same tools and knowledge that virtually every professional tester in the industry uses.

Pro Online ResultBrowser
The Pro Online ResultBrowser (ORB) is designed and developed specially for PCMark05 Advanced and PCMark05 Professional users. In addition to the normal functionalities you can do multiple comparisons, get detailed system info, use dynamic compare URLs and much much more. The Pro ORB extends PCMark05 to the extreme!

The extended PCMark05 ORB features are only available via PCMark05 Advanced and PCMark05 Professional.

Key PCMark05 Advanced and Professional Features

• Unparalleled ease-of-use: One click benchmarking
• Unified benchmarking for desktop and laptop PCs and workstations
• System Information tool that displays advance system configuration information
• Advanced Online ResultBrowser functionality

PCMark05 Test Suites:

• System Test Suite: Extensive collection of application-based tests that are relevant in typical home use of a PC; tasks include hard disk drive access, video encoding, audio compression, 2D user interface tasks, 2D graphics memory access, web page rendering, file decryption and encryption, memory access and text editing.
• CPU Test Suite: Includes tests that isolate the performance of the CPU; tasks include file compression and decompression, file encryption and decryption, audio compression and decompression and image decompression;
• Memory Performance Testing: Tests measure the performance of the memory subsystem; these tasks include reading, writing and copying access to data blocks in the L1 cache, L2 cache, and main memory as well as latency tests;
• Graphics Test Suite: Tests measure both 2D and 3D graphics performance of the PC. 2D tasks measure moving and transparent 2D dialog performance, graphics memory performance and video playback performance. 3D tasks exercise pixel shader, vertex shader, fill rate and polygon throughput capabilities for the graphics subsystem;
• Hard Disk Drive Test Suite: Uses disk activity traces from real-life tasks; these tests isolate the performance of the hard disk drive. Disk activities measured include Windows? XP startup, application loading, file writing, virus scanning and general disk usage.

Minimum System requirements

• x86 compatible processor, SSE, 1400MHz
• 128MB of RAM (256MB recommended)
• DirectX 7 compliant graphics adapter (3D tests require a fully DirectX 9 compatible hardware)
• 110MB of Hard Disk space *
• Windows XP
• Microsoft Internet Explorer 6
• Microsoft Media Encoder 9 & Media Player 10
• DirectX 9.0c

* HDD tests require additional 130MB of Hard Disk space.

PCMark05 Build 1.2.0 Fixes

• Windows Vista enabled*
• Fixed splash screen on Windows Vista
• Internet Explorer 7 compatibility
• Fixed Windows Media Player version detection
• Fixed transparent windows issues
• Fixed looping issues with HDD tests
• Fixed compatibility issues with Windows Media Encoder 9
• Advanced Profile update
• Improved startup speed by optimizing the SystemInfo component
• Updated SystemInfo component with support for the latest CPU and graphics hardware
• Fixed all reported & reproduced issues.

* = To run PCMark05 Build 1.2.0 in Windows Vista 64bit, please run the application as administrator.