title: IDE/compiler PC benchmark to compare my PCs performance?
body: <p>I'm looking for a benchmark (and results on other PCs) which would give me an idea of the development performance gain I could get by upgrading my PC, also the benchmark could be used to justify the upgrade to my boss.</p>
  
  <p>I use Visual Studio 2008 for my development, so I'd like to get an idea of by what factor the build times would be improved, and also it would be good if the benchmark could incorporate IDE performance (i.e. when editing, using intellisense, opening code files etc) into its result.</p>
  
  <p>I currently have an AMD 3800x2, with 2GB RAM on Vista 32.  For example, I'd like to know what kind of performance gain I'd see in Visual Studio 2008 with a Q6600, 4GB RAM on Vista 64.  And also with other processors, and other RAM sizes... also see whether hard disk performance is a big factor.</p>
  
  <p>EDIT: I mentioned Vista 64 because I'm aware that Vista 32 can only use 3GB RAM maximum.  So I'd presume that wanting to use more RAM would require Vista 64, but perhaps it could still be slower overall there is a large overhead in using the 32 bit VS 2008 on 64 bit OS.</p>