I am never really sure what benchmarks mean in the real world but everybody talks about them all the time.
I asked a buddy if he knew of any benchmarking programs and he sent me to something called 3D Marks.
here is what I got...
5085
My system compared to similar configurations...
There were 13 : Slowest 4936 - Me 5085 - Fastest 8520
My system compared to ALL systems...
There were 711972 : Slowest 11 - Me 5085 - Fastest 13046
There are 203728 systems with a higher score
There are 508244 systems with a lower score