- Joined
- May 10, 2009
There are no stupid questions, blah blah blah blah.
Anyway, we of the benching team are more then happy to field newbies questions, even the same old newbie questions over and over again! So feel free to post here, don't worry about feeling stupid or worrying about what we might think.
At some point, we were all newbies. Hell one (1) year ago i had no idea there was even such a thing as a competitive benchmark! I thought they were simply for comparing (stock) hardware performance.
Now of course i know differently
I've been talking to a few interested people in PMs, and the question that comes up the most is: Do i have to pay for 3dmark software?
The answer is NO! You don't, the free/trial versions work perfectly well for benchmarking. I still use the trial stuff myself in fact.
When you start really getting into it and posting dozens of scores at once having the full version can be nice, mainly because you don't have to go online to check the 05/06 scores, and you don't have the limited space to store online scores of the trial versions.
Like my sig says, you can get started in this hobby for exactly $0 (excluding electricity...)
Anyway, we of the benching team are more then happy to field newbies questions, even the same old newbie questions over and over again! So feel free to post here, don't worry about feeling stupid or worrying about what we might think.
At some point, we were all newbies. Hell one (1) year ago i had no idea there was even such a thing as a competitive benchmark! I thought they were simply for comparing (stock) hardware performance.
Now of course i know differently
I've been talking to a few interested people in PMs, and the question that comes up the most is: Do i have to pay for 3dmark software?
The answer is NO! You don't, the free/trial versions work perfectly well for benchmarking. I still use the trial stuff myself in fact.
When you start really getting into it and posting dozens of scores at once having the full version can be nice, mainly because you don't have to go online to check the 05/06 scores, and you don't have the limited space to store online scores of the trial versions.
Like my sig says, you can get started in this hobby for exactly $0 (excluding electricity...)
, but Id rather not go there for this. I have been interested in the bench team for a bit now, but getting discourged due to uncertainty with assertaining all the bench programs. As you can see, my rigs in my sig could easily add some points to the team, even at stock.
