Take the 2-minute tour ×  I' ve just bought new RAM and I'd like
to benchmark and compare with my old. How can I do that?
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accepted  The package hardinfo
(http://sourceforge.net/projects/hardinfo.berlios/) is a pretty
decent system benchmarker with a nice GUI. The simplest way to
compare the two would be to benchmark one save the results and
then compare it to your benchmarking of the other.   Depending
on your distro, you may already have hardinfo installed, for
example on Lubuntu it is called "System Profiler and Benchmark".
share|improve this answer Oops site does not exist... –  Zulu
Nov 21 at 23:37  Consider that in today's machines one real
memory access is worth a few hundred instructions, the benchmark
results probably depend much more on CPU and cache behaviour
than RAM speed. And the speed might be limited by the
motherboard's handling of RAM too.  share|improve this answer
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