Usenet Newsreader Benchmark
Usenet Newsreader Benchmark is a tool for benchmarking the performance of your usenet newsgroup server. Learn how your server and internet connection perform, and compare the performance to other installations to see if you're getting the most bang for your buck. ... A simple freeware tool with no hassles.
http://www.newsgroupdownloaders.co...ewsreader-benchmark/usemark09.exe - 885Kb - Download - Screenshot

Benchmark
So you've bought a new Palm, and you're wondering just how much faster it is than the last one you had? Give Benchmark 3. 0 a try. It'll accurately show the speed of any Palm device. It's small, free, and written entirely on-board a Palm handheld using the Quartus Forth on-board compiler!
http://www.quartus.net/files/PalmOS/Apps/bnchmark3.zip - 7Kb - Download - Screenshot

Fresh Diagnose
Fresh Diagnose is a utility designed to analyze and benchmark your computer system. It can analyze and benchmark many kinds of hardware, such as CPU performance, hard disk performance, video system information, mainboard information, and more! Key features of Fresh Diagnose: System Information:... Use this free software to learn more about your computer and its components, detect/diagnose any problems in your computer, and increase your computer's performance! ... System Benchmarks: Testing your system performance, such as CPU, hard disk, CD/DVD ROM, and compare it with other systems.
http://www.freshdevices.com/files/diagnose.exe - 1Mb - Download - Screenshot

Benchmark Factory for Databases Freeware
Benchmark Factory for Databases is a database performance and scalability testing tool for Oracle, SQL Server, DB2 UDB, Sybase ASE, MySQL, and other databases using ODBC connectivity that: ? Generates load against the database by replaying production workload, running user-defined SQL scripts or... ), database platform evaluations (Linux vs. ... Solaris vs. ... Win), and when deploying and tuning Oracle RAC. ... Compares performance test results enabling users to compare performance and scalability between database platforms, which is necessary during database migrations (SQL Server 2000...
http://www.quest.com/benchmark_factory/freeware.asp - 16Mb - Download

Web Essence
Compares performance of different parameters, for available Web Servers, under test. 3D Graphical output. Executes benchmarks based on both Time and Request. Secured login for authorized access to benchmark files. Single machine and multi-machine support. ... Provides sample CGI, ISAPI and static workload files. ... Supports HTTP 1. ... 1 Keep-Alive connections, sends HTTP GET and POST requests. ... Allows simulation of 1000+ clients per machine.
http://www.essencomp.com/products/webessence/webessence.exe - 1Mb - Download - Screenshot

Dacris Benchmarks
Dacris Benchmarks is a program that tests, compares, and optimizes your system. Version 5. 0 is an exciting new upgrade to this benchmarking program. It has been completely rebuilt for stability and simplicity. Based on a new plug-in DLL architecture, it allows users to make their own tests and... It is light-weight, easy to set up, stable, and accurate. ... It also has a very large collection of online reference results (baselines) with which you can compare your own results.
http://app.dacris.com/full/bmark.exe - 1Mb - Download - Screenshot

PerformanceTest
PerformanceTest allows you to objectively benchmark a PC using a variety of different tests then compare the results to other computers. Twenty seven individual tests are available in six test suites (CPU, 2D graphics, Hard Disk, Memory access, DirectX 3D graphics and CD/DVD). ... After the software is purchased the user can access PassMark's database of baseline results where many other benchmark results can be downloaded. ... The benchmark results are presented as easy to read bar charts so that you can see at a glance the relative performance of your system without having to deal with...
http://www.passmark.com/ftp/petst.exe - 3Mb - Download - Screenshot

SBHttpStat Statistics
SBHttpStat repeatedly fetches a URL from a web server and generates a plot of the throughput and latency. You can use it to see how your web server is performing, or to benchmark your internet connection. It's a fairly simple and easy to use no-nonsense utility. ... Freeware. ... Supports Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP.
http://www.sb-software.com/sbhttp/sbhttp12.exe - 666Kb - Download - Screenshot

AWBot
AWbot connects to your web site and make URL requests like any other visitors. AWBot is not a web indexing robot but a web client tool that emulate some visitors browsing on your web site to test its stability after a development change, to test its reliability and/or response to heavy load. ... AWBot is GPL. ... Then you can launch AWbot as often as you want to test your site, get benchmarks information or make some load benchmarking (AWBot can be launched with several simultaneous process). ... You choose which pages you want to test in a test/config file (parameters in URLs or forms can...
http://awbot.sourceforge.net/files/awbot.tar.gz - 125Kb - Download - Screenshot

ABC Scrabble
ABC SCRABBLE is an absolutely free tool that will help you find anagrams as well as words that contain any number of jokers. It has been especially designed for Scrabbles, Crosswords, and Letters fans. It relies on the ENABLE dictionary (including 154,000 words from 2 to 9 letters). ... ENABLE stands for "Enhanced North American Benchmark LExicon".
http://www.2mgames.com/dl/abcscrabblewe.exe - 997Kb - Download - Screenshot