TL;DR: CrystalMark Retro 2.0, a free benchmarking tool from Crystal Dew World, now supports Windows 95, 98, and Me, after a year of development. It allows users to compare retro and modern systems.

Crystal Dew World has released a major update to its retro Windows benchmarking tool. The updated CrystalMark Retro 2.0.0 was made available today, as freeware, and the major change here is that its ...

In an odd turn of events, Windows 8 has been banned from HWBot, one of the world's top benchmarking and overclocking communities. All existing benchmarks recorded by Windows 8 have been disqualified.

In a previous article I looked at UL Solutions' newest test suite, Procyon. Procyon is the successor to its widely successful benchmarking tool, PCMark. Procyon was designed to benchmark today's ...

Personal computers used to be the domain of hobbyists, who had no problem rolling up their sleeves and diving into debuggers to figure out why something wasn't working as expected. Also: Yes, you can ...