FinalWire just put the finishing touches on version 2.00 of its AIDA64 application, a streamlined diagnostic and benchmarking tool that now supports LGA2011 Intel Sandy Bridge-E processors. Looking ahead to future platforms, the latest build also adds preliminary support for AMD Krishna and Wichita APUs, Intel Atom Cedarview processors, and Ivy Bridge and 7-Series chipsets.

Futuremark's annual Lords of Overclocking competition drew more than 10,000 entries from over 80 countries, each one hoping they had the highest 3DMark 11 benchmark score. And 39 of them did, at one point or another, as that's how many times a high score was submitted to the MSI sponsored event during it's four-week run. Hit the jump to find out who won and the new score to beat.

AMD today announced it will not endorse the SYSmark 2012 benchmark (SM2012) published by BAPCo (Business Applications Performance Corporation) and is further resigning from the organization. The chip maker made its criticisms of SYSmark 2012 public suggesting in a lengthy blog post that the benchmark provides biased results, and according to reports, AMD might be the first of several dominoes to fall.

The latest batch of browsers barely resemble those from just a few years ago, both on the surface and, more importantly, under the hood. Recent releases have focused heavily on JavaScript performance, and when you see Browser Maker X claiming their browser is twice as fast as the previous version, or three times as fast as the competition, they're usually referring to JavaScript performance. But it's not just browsers that need to evolve, so too do the benchmarks that we use to evaluate them. With that in mind, Google just updated its popular V8 benchmark suite.