I use to use this app in the past, and I am going to test my PC later today.
http://www.futuremark.com/download/3dmark06/

I used the Gamershell link to get the file.
It is close to 600 MB.

In the demo test you view your results online, and in order to do that, you must have an account with them.
It is simple to do, you just give them your email addy and create a password with them.

You can then view your results online, and you can click "more" for more info which shows your motherboard, RAM, video card, ect.

 

ive always just used sisoftware... how much better is futuremark, corey?

 

I used to but my computer is old. How old? Well I have a NVidia GeForce4 Ti4200 graphics card and an AMD Athlon XP2400 cpu with 512MB of pc2700.

James

 

hey better than mine i have a sony vaio 2GHz with like 500 somethin ram. cant even upgrade the video card cuz theres no agp or pci-e slots.. lol

 

It is the standard that the PC magazines use when they do review articles on new gaming PCs submitted to them to test.

It is considered the best test to use.

In the past my old PCs hardly showed the in app movies that played for the tests.
Now the movies played great and the frame rates were good enough for a good view.

To see one of the test movies in whole and with sound, there is a demo link near the right side of the app.
The vid is around 3 to 4 minutes long I think.

It would make a cool game, but I do not think it is an actual game.

I did find one of the test vids at YouTube.

[YOUTUBE]cbn1BygwuAE[/YOUTUBE]

Found another vid that shows the space demo part of it that would make for a cool game.

[youtube]3ES4Swau8ug[/youtube]

 

This is my score with an "old" gaming card - 7950GT, overclocked and overvolted to GTX and dual core amd. Not a great score anymore with all the dx10 cards out, but good enough for my needs right now.