Written By : Lee Mansfield
June 2005

Introduction:::...

Back in 2002 a small company called Madonion released their first unified benchmarking program call PCMark2002, that tested a broad range of home and office based tasks to give an overall performance score for the PC.

Fast forward 3 years, Madonion have become Futuremark, and they are releasing the third incarnation of PCMark2002, PCMark05.

This latest version has been designed to take into consideration the latest and greatest technologies released since the last version, PCMark04, including the NVIDIA 7800 graphics card range, and the dual core processors available from AMD and Intel, while still being accessible to the average user with the average PC.

With that in mind let's take a closer look at PCMark05.