CPUBENCH

Hardware components are the internal organs of your computer and determine its overall performance. These kept up the pace with advancement in technology, thus providing more juice so you can run even the most complex and resource-hungry video games. Testing them out is a common thing and can be done with applications like CPUBENCH, which is dedicated to the CPU.

One neat advantage is that the application does not need to be installed in order to properly run, so you can keep it on a removable storage device and use it on multiple machines. Although the application has not received any updates in a considerable amount of time, it's still able to properly perform tests on modern CPUs as well.

The application brings up a pretty compact interface, with a few options at your disposal. However, there's helpful text constantly displayed so you know what to do next or what the application is doing for that matter.

Choices might seem limited at first, with the possibility to directly trigger the test or open the options menu for several configurations. Doing so lets you pick what test cases to be used, with a decent list to choose from. All of them are selected by default, with options like MFLOPS, Savage, B5, Matrix or Whetstone at your disposal.

What's more, the application comes equipped with a short description for each test case so you know exactly what your CPU is going through. Moreover, while the process is in motion, the main window displays each step as progress is made.

The application gives you the possibility to access a database that contains multiple CPU makes and models so you can compare results to see how well yours performs. Sadly, such as the application, the database is also outdated, with no option to gather online data to compare with latest or newer models.

Testing runs relatively smooth and does not take much of your time. For each task passed, you are alerted and the database is brought up to display your CPU's values in the table of existing elements. However, there are no export options whatsoever, which is a pain if you run it on multiple computers, especially because make and model are not identified and the corresponding name field is not editable.

Taking everything into consideration, we can say that CPUBENCH manages to put some degree of pressure on your CPU to determine its speed, but the comparison counterpart is more than outdated, leaving you with just an idea of overall performance. With no option to look online and lack of export function, it mostly makes for a utility to stress out your CPU.