I must say for an benchmark tool like this one its to expensive. Can it programm something - no, can you do usefeull thing with it which helps to get you PC run faster - no. Why all you programmers think you can make heaven prices, only because there are a lot of users which don't know a lot about other tools for free . There are a lot of other and better tools like this one but for free, you like to test your perfomance for SSD Drive then take AS SSD Benchmark, to monitoring your PC stats for example ...

Just out of curiousity, who buys something like PCMark 8 and for what do you use it?

We've just launched major update to PCMark 8 - v2.0.191 Unfortunately some less-than-great antivirus applications (F-Secure, BitDefender and Ad-Aware being the notable ones) are flagging the new spreadsheet test (libreofficeCalcTest.exe) with generic Trojan alert. We have reported this false positive to the companies involved. There is no virus in PCMark 8. ...

PCMark 8 - SystemInfo failure Initializing Futuremark SystemInfo failed. Please verify that version 4.21 or newer is installed properly.

I'm running the Home/Accelerated test. For the Video Chat playback 1 v2 Accelerated test, I get N/A. This is causing my overall score to be N/A. Detailed statistics: http://www.3dmark.com/pcm8hm3/295630 Any ideas? Intel Core i7-6700K @ 4.5 GHz 16 GB DDR4-3000 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Microsoft Windows 10...