However this was only a very temporary cardiac arrest as we quickly got word that the geniuses behind it had merely returned to whence they came.īack in the mid to late 1990s a freeware diagnostic utility appeared by the name of AIDA, which then quickly became AIDA32.

It was with horror then that we learnt that Lavalys was to be broken up and Everest would be no more. A quick run of the portable Everest and details were swiftly forthcoming. We all have experienced turning up to fix a computer that is both old and owned by someone so computer illiterate they haven't a clue what lurks within their beige box. It's been a staple of the OC3D benchmarking suite for pretty much as long as we've been reviewing both for its ease of use and for the incredible speed in which updates are provided for the cutting edge, usually unreleased, hardware we have on the test bench.īesides its more regular use as a benchmarking suite, it has such incredible hardware recognition abilities that it's also an invaluable tool for those of us who are the default 'fix my computer' guy amongst our family and friends. It's a very comprehensive identification and benchmarking tool that is invaluable in testing the underlying performance of your PC. As many of you will be aware we've always been huge fans of the Lavalys benchmark suite 'Everest'.

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