What is the best benchmark?

Question

I have a laptop, but it's slower than it should be (after the specifications..) What is the best benchmark program to test it, and compare it with others, and possibly gives details about each part (CPU, memory, graphics, etc...)

the slowdown is not because of spyware, brandnew machine, it is because of (i think) bad hardware configuration, or someting, or just bad (slow) hardware parts...

Answer 1

Are you willing to spend money? If you want a free program, try Sandra Lite (http://www.filehippo.com/download_sandra_lite/). Here is what it has to offer:

"SiSoftware Sandra (the System ANalyser, Diagnostic and Reporting Assistant) is an information & diagnostic utility. It should provide most of the information (including undocumented) you need to know about your hardware, software and other devices whether hardware or software.

It works along the lines of other Windows utilities, however it tries to go beyond them and show you more of what's really going on. Giving the user the ability to draw comparisons at both a high and low-level. You can get information about the CPU, chipset, video adapter, ports, printers, sound card, memory, network, Windows internals, AGP, PCI, PCIe, ODBC Connections, USB2, 1394/Firewire, etc."

Here is a link to some other free programs which can both scan and benchmark your computer and its components http://www.filehippo.com/software/benchmark/

Answer 2

When your PC slows down one thing that may be causing it is scumware.

Two free programs I use to clean spy ware, ad ware and other scumware off my PC are...

Adaware from
http://www.lavasoft.com/

And Spybot S&D from
http://www.safer-networking.org/en/index.html

Download them install them and run them. They will probably help. They certainly won't hurt anything.