1, 3, 6 and 8 are generally good for the rest, a lot depends on what your goal in doing the benchmarking is and what your target and testing machines are. if y

1, 3, 6 and 8 are generally good for the rest, a lot depends on what your goal in doing the benchmarking is and what your target and testing machines are. if you're developing software to run in server environments under load then the rest don't make sense to me. 5 means you may be able to continue to use your machine for other light tasks and still get semi-reasonable numbers, so it's a maybe one addition. if your tests are relatively short (and shorter is better in that it allows you to iterate quicker), they won't be run under thermal steady state. fixing the cpu freq, or setting a conservative max, will help