Hello,

I have a new laptop arriving soon and I want to do some benchmarking under Windows, before I do my Linux install.
I then want to do the same benchmark tests in my fresh Linux install.
Hopefully I can then tell if I need to tweak my Linux install in anyway.

Can anyone recommend which software I should use?

Primarily I want to test
* 3D
* SSD

Anything else I should check?

Thanks in advance

Hi,

You could check Tomshardware to see if your laptop has been reviewed, tested & benchmarked.

You could benchmark how easy it is to install an app from the moment you think of it until you're actually using it. For example, suppose you want to install a shooting game. On Fedora Linux you could do this:
yum search game | grep shoot

There are eight results. Pick CriticalMass (I've never installed it or played it, I'm just picking one):
yum install CriticalMass

Depending on your desktop environment, you'll probably have a desktop menu item for it now. Or execute the command from a shell to play it:
critter

OK, what was that? Two or three minutes? Ten if you dither. I don't know how you'd do it on Windows, though if you download a free game on Windows, you'll have to worry about viruses, which could take weeks to recover from. If you drive down to BestBuy and buy a game, that will definitely take more than ten minutes.

Thanks guys, but this isn't what I'm after.

After I install Linux I want to be able to compare the performance to Windows.
I want some quantitative way of doing this.

I've seen Geekbench, for example, which is cross platform - but won't analyse disk performance (I think).
For disk performance is it adequate to write a script, using something like dd, to create writes to disk?

Thanks,

James

Has anyone used

http://www.phoronix-test-suite.com/?k=features

It looks like exactly what I need...