Test 3D Performance with Quake 4 @ Hardware Secrets

[Lincoln]

One of the best ways to benchmark the performance of your PC is running a heavy 3D game, since it will pull the maximum performance your video card, CPU, memories and hard disk drive can deliver.

Quake 4 fits nicely in this role for PCs found on the market today. In this short tutorial we will teach you how to use Quake 4 to measure the performance of a PC.
Source: Hardware Secrets (http://www.hardwaresecrets.com/article/322)

[Gravite2090]

Remember how Quake 3 was the benchmarking standard for OpenGL hardware for soooo long. Even when hundreds of frames per second were reported, everyone used Quake 3. Good times. I miss my tnt2 so bad. I really wish I had never gotten rid of it.