Benchmarking Your PC: A Guide to Best Practices

Like millions of people around the world, you probably use your PC to play video games. You may well have lots of experience of building and configuring computer systems, as PC gamers are often knowledgeable and enthusiastic when it comes to hardware. So how about combining all three? Take the computer know-how, the love of games, and the interest in components, and mix them all together. It's a perfect recipe for diving into the workings of a PC and seeing how well it performs.

In this article, we'll explain how you can use games to benchmark your PC and what you can do to analyze the results – either to check the overall performance or to see what part of your computer is doing most of the work. We'll cover the best way to go about collecting the data and how to use the tools that we run with to check out the latest hardware. Time to get a-testin'!