Because the rest of them kinda suck

I recently purchased my first custom gaming PC and the first thing I wanted to check after getting it was how well it performed compared to other gaming systems. I started by searching and testing a number of Windows benchmark programs but quickly realized that only a few of them were any good.

In this article I’m going to write about three of my favorite benchmark programs and how to use them. I won’t go into details on how to improve your score in this article, because that’s a whole other topic, but it’s definitely something you should do some research on. When I benchmarked my gaming PC, it ranked in the 43rd percentile, which was pretty pathetic for me.

After tweaking some settings in the BIOS related to XMP, overclocking, etc., I was able to get all the way up to the 76th percentile! So tweaking your hardware settings can make a huge difference in your benchmark score. The scores below are from a non-gaming PC, as I didn't have my gaming desktop with me when writing this article.