CPU World recommendation for a freeware benchmarl program

[lon.from.appleton]

What does CPU World recommend for benchmarking cpu's, speed test,
stress test etc for comparison purposes? Test objects are AMD Phenom.

[Mr.Scott]

Depends on what you're testing.
Single thread performance, multi thread performance, etc.
Different benchmarks test different things.

For stress test, w/AVX instruction sets or without?

[Guest]

I will try to get more specifics and thanks for reply.
I think, since this is a request of an email chum that he wants to compare the speed and or efficiency between his Phenom (older, less cores) and the
one I recently installed.

Quite frankly I don't know all the terminology.

To sum it up I think he wants to know if the upgrade is significant.

Just on that note, could he not use the data between his and others in
your comparison section? I recall seeing this some time ago but failed to think of it til just now.

Or it might be a check on running XP vs Win7 with the alternate hardware. I have to get more detail.