Utilities

[_Chris_]

GPU-Z 0.3.7

• Added Infotips for sensors
  
• Fixed crash when ATI ULPS CrossFire enabled
  
• Added full support for ATI HD 5970 (Hemlock)
  
• Added full support for NVIDIA GeForce GT 240 (GT215)
  
• Added "ULPS active" note to CrossFire status when ULPS active
  
• Fixed overclocks via CCC not showing correctly
  
• Added checkboxes to show availability of CUDA, PhysX, OpenCL and DirectX Compute
  
• Improved memory type detection for GT 216, GT 218
  
• Added voltage monitoring support for HD 5770
  
• Disconnected fan now shows correctly in sensors (when detectable via hardware)
  
• Improved accuracy of ATI GPU load monitoring
  
• Added detection for ATI RV380/RV530 cards relabeled to NVIDIA 9400/9500/9600 GT
  
• Added support for NVIDIA 9300 SE, NVS450, GT 240, GTS 250M, G102M
  
• Added support for Intel G41
  

[sakis_the_fraud]

RealTemp 3.46

I've added ATI GPU temperature monitoring to this version. I am using the ADL (AMD Display Library) SDK 2.0 to accomplish this which isn't the most efficient hardware monitoring library.

Update: This seems to work on the 2000, 3000, 4000 and new 5000 series of ATI cards.

On some GPUs in some situations, the performance of this library is terrible. On slower cards, I wouldn't recommend sampling the ATI GPU temperature sensor more than once every 5 seconds. RealTemp also includes the ability to easily temporarily disable this feature if you want to run any A / B comparisons or benchmarks.

If this new feature works for you without any issues then that's great. If not, you can always turn it off completely by using the INI option:

NoGPU=1

I haven't heard of any problems yet on systems with single GPUs. If you are using a x2 or any unique CrossFire version then some feedback would be great. RealTemp is designed to report the highest temperature of the hottest GPU in CrossFire mode in the button on the main GUI. This button opens up another window where you are supposed to be able to monitor each GPU individually. With multi monitors it might label things funny like, GPU 1, GPU 2, GPU 3, GPU 4 but if you have two GPUs in your system then GPU 1 GPU 2 should belong to the first GPU and GPU 3 GPU 4 should belong to the second GPU. I wish I had some more time and some actual ATI hardware to test on but I've had to wing it because my new 5750 crapped out half way through development. I decided to get a refund rather than try my luck again. I might wait for a 5850 next time I'm feeling lucky.

On Nvidia systems, RealTemp can report the GPU temperatures for each GPU in SLI mode but if you are not in SLI mode, then it can't report both GPUs. That's a work in progress.

One user had an ATI card as his main card and an Nvidia card as his second card. RealTemp can't correctly handle situations like that either. It's one or the other at the moment.

I added another INI option that might help a little in the above situation:

NoATIGPU=1

That might allow only the Nvidia GPU to be detected and reported in RealTemp so you can choose what one you want to see.

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[sakis_the_fraud]

MemSet v4.1

-Add support for Intel Core i3 & i5 (Clarkdale) CPUs.

-Increase reading some timings (tWR, tRTP, tFAW) on Core i7.

-Fix a bug when Apply setting with Intel 945 GME chipsets.

-Some bugs was corrected.

[GeorgeVasil]

ATTO Disk Benchmark v2.41

[GeorgeVasil]

TechPowerUp GPU-Z v0.3.8

* Added framework for translations in GPU-Z, to do that we need your help. Please go to tpu.me/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=72 to submit contributions in your language

* Added sensors to monitor GPU load percentages on NVIDIA

* Fixed startup on Windows 2000 (DLL not found)

* Improved detection/added sensors for ATI M86

* Fixed several NVAPI crashes

* Fixed crash when PhysX not available

* GPU-Z can now be set in its system menu to be always on top of other windows

[sakis_the_fraud]

MSI Afterburner v.1.4.1

Afterburner v.1.4.1 (2009-11-23)

* Fix incorrect database entry of MSI N240GT D3 series

changelog v.1.4.0

* Added initial AMD RADEON HD 5970 series graphics cards support

* Added voltage control for cost down reference design AMD RADEON HD 4870 series graphics cards with L6788A voltage regulators

* Added voltage control for custom design MSI R4770 Cyclone graphics cards series with uP6204 voltage regulators

* Ineffective and slow temperature, clock, GPU usage and fan speed monitoring implementation provided by native AMD's ADL SDK has been replaced with own more effective low-level codepath. Due to new codepath hardware monitoring related CPU performance hit has been reduced drastically on the systems with AMD graphics cards and drivers.

* On-Screen Display and Logitech LCD monitoring modules no longer explicitly read displayed data from hardware and retrieve cached data from monitoring graphs instead. Due to this change CPU performance hit is reduced when OSD or LCD monitoring features are enabled.

* Fan speed slider position and numeric fan speed input field are now being refreshed in automatic fan speed mode only when MSI Afterburner window is active.

* Added configuration file switch allowing power users to unlock unofficial overclocking codepath in AMD display drivers (similar to AMDGPUClockTool, ATITool and RivaTuner overclocking implementation on AMD graphics cards).

Unlike AMD's official ADL SDK overclocking ways, unofficial ones are not limited with CCC clock limit but have some alternate disadvantages (e.g. PowerPlay support limitation).

Please take a note that unofficial overclocking methods are not supported either by AMD or by MSI, so unlock and use it at your own risk.

* Now it is possible to toggle performance profiler status info visibility in hardware monitor window via [show status] option in the context menu.

* Fixed L6788A database entry for AMD RADEON HD 4770 series graphics cards

* GPU voltage monitoring feature is now locked and not available by default.

Unfortunately some inexperienced users don't understand the risk of running multiple tools accessing voltage regulator at the same time and tend to use helper voltage monitoring features in everyday hardware monitoring sessions in conjunction with third party VRM monitoring tools, intensively writing data to VRM and periodically causing it to enter wrong state due to write collision. Unfortunately such issues are wrongly treated by certain users as instability of our product. To prevent such rumors, since this version voltage monitoring feature is no longer available to beginners by default.

Experienced users understanding these specifics and accepting these risks may unlock voltage monitoring features via new safety option in [General]tab

* AMD RV8xx I2C microcontroller is now being forcibly reset prior to starting new I2C transaction to minimize the risk of I2C collisions with third party tool without I2C synchronization protocol support (e.g. AMDGPUClockTool)

* Added safety option allowing users to disable voltage control feature if it is not needed

* Now Afterburner forcibly changes memory clock for all performance levels at once on AMD graphics cards with equal default memory clocks defined for all performance levels to bypass flickering issue caused by incorrect PowerPlay dynamic memory clock changing implementation on some cards

* Added Catalyst driver family version detection for AMD graphics cards

* Added option to display system time in the On-Screen Display

* Added red and blue editions of default skin

* Various minor user interface and skin tweaks

* Added configuration file switches allowing power users to tweak Afterburner startup process and define startup delay or force the startup to be handled by Windows Vista / Windows 7 Task Scheduler to bypass UAC evaluation window (additional Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 runtime libraries installation is required for task scheduler based startup way)

* MSI On-Screen Display server has been upgraded to version 3.6.0. New server provides improved desktop windows notification mechanism and also features optional power user oriented task scheduler based startup way

* Added skin format reference documentation. Now third party skin designers may use this local offline documentation to create their own skins for MSI Afterburner. Official MSI Afterburner skin creation contest is approaching!

[GeorgeVasil]

MaxxPI²

MaxxPI², is an benchmark to measure cpu / cache / memory performance of computer systems.Furthermore MaxxPI² will provide all users of it an easy comparing with other machines, save, view and work with own results.Users of MaxxPI² will also be able to see, witch machine matches with certain hardware and what kind of hardware

will maximize their performance.

Aρκετα ενδιαφερον Tool.

[Dr.Paneas]

Νέο CPU-Z 1.53

http://www.outofspecs.gr/forum/showthread.php?t=3371

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http://www.oo-software.com/home/en/special/komputerswiat/

http://www.oo-software.com/home/en/download/archive/index.php?product=oodefrag10pro

[_Chris_]

NiBiTor 5.3

nVidia <nobr style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 100%; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" id="itxt_nobr_0_0"></nobr>BIOS Editor (aka NiBiTor) got its update for this month. The popular BIOS manipulation utility has been updated to version 5.3. As with every new release, version 5.3 brings along an expanded supported products list, a number of critical and trivial bug fixes, and an improved ability to work with unsupported hardware in a limited way. Newly supported products include:

• GeForce GTX 295 (Single PCB)
  
• GeForce GTX 260M
  
• Quadro FX 3700M
  

[GeorgeVasil]

EVGA Precision v1.9.0

Changes listed by EVGA are as follows:

* Fixed 3D memory clock monitoring on NVIDIA GeForce GT 240 DDR5 series graphics cards

* Added configuration file setting allowing power users to display performance profiler status information in the hardware monitor window. The information allows estimating average CPU performance hit caused by hardware monitor

* On-Screen Display and Logitech LCD monitoring modules no longer explicitly read displayed data from hardware and retrieve cached data from monitoring graphs instead. Due to this change CPU performance hit is reduced when OSD or LCD monitoring features are enabled

* Fan speed slider position and numeric fan speed input field are now being refreshed in automatic fan speed mode only when EVGA Precision window is active

* Added configuration file switches allowing power users to tweak Precision startup process and define startup delay or force the startup to be handled by Windows Vista / Windows 7 Task Scheduler to bypass UAC evaluation window (additional Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 runtime libraries installation is required for task scheduler based startup way)

* Added videomemory usage monitoring for NVIDIA graphics cards under Forceware 185.xx and newer drivers

* Added GPU usage monitoring for NVIDIA GT2xx and newer graphics cards under Forceware 185.xx and newer drivers

* EVGA On-Screen Display server has been upgraded to version 3.6.0. New server provides improved desktop windows notification mechanism and also features optional power user oriented task scheduler based startup way

* Reduced runtime skin engine memory footprint due to dynamic skin storage unloading

[GeorgeVasil]

K10stat 0.91

K10stat is a software that allows you to configure various parameters with high precision of operation based on the architecture of the AMD Phenom and Phenom II.

Among the various options available we remind the opportunity to speak individually on each of the processor cores, varying the supply voltages, change the levels of energy saving

E 'can also create profiles with specific operating frequencies that allow us to contain the total consumption of the processor as it is not used at full load with further improvements made by the processor than the default.

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[_Chris_]

msi Kombustor 0.70 Beta

This is standalone benchmark/stability test tool based on FurMark.

For the MSI AfterBurner we are creating a new function, a stress test which will be called Kombustor. This is standalone benchmark/stability test tool based on FurMark, but now with big and furry MSI logo. You can either run in separately, or link with Afterburner to read more detailed information during stress test.

After installing Kombustor, you can simply press the "K" button on Afterburner 1.5.0 and instantly launch 3D stability test. Just that simple! You can also click the Kombustor icon on the desktop to launch GUI to customize your testing preference.

Features of MSI Kombustor

• 
  
• Based on FurMark technology
  
• Latest OpenGL 3.2 rendering path
  
• Benchmark and stability test mode
  
• Link with Afterburner 1.5.0+
  
• GPU temperature monitoring
  
• Fullscreen or windowed for each type of run mode
  
• Window size selection (standard or custom)
  
• MSAA samples selection
  
• Benchmarking parameters: time based or frames based
  
• Xtreme Burning Mode for Xtreme test
  

[GeorgeVasil]

FurMark 1.8.0 Hot Like Hell Edition

FurMark 1.8.0 changelog:

* New: now all options are available in benchmarking mode: Xtrem Burning (XB), postfx (FX) and displacement mapping (DM).

* New: added new effet (displacement mapping) on the fur rendering.

* New: GUI translation is done with XML files in the localization folder.

* New: added hotkeys: P to enable/disable post fx rendering, T to enable/disable temperature graphs rendering.

* New: gpu temperature is now exported in xml and csv formats.

* New: twitter submission displays a login dialog box to tweet your score.

* Change: the fur rendering workload has been increased to produce more heat.

* Change: improved temperature graphs readability.

* Change: updated with the latest version of ZoomGPU for graphics hardware detection.

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[Dr.Paneas]

Alcohol 120% 2.0.0.1331

[GeorgeVasil]

Futuremark 3DMark Vantage v1.0.2 1901

3DMark Vantage v1.0.2 1901 changes

* Fixed hang in CPU Test 2 - Physics on systems with more than 12 logical processors

* Added possibility to disable System Info scan in command line front-end

* Fixed the score formula in texture fill rate test

* Added buffered file input stream for faster test loading times

* Updated System Info component version to 3.21.2.1

Futuremark 3DMark06 v1.2.0 1901

3DMark06 v1.2.0 1901 changes

* Fixed CPU Test Novodex thread search when there are more than 32 threads

* Updated System Info component version to 3.21.2.1

3DMark05 v1.3.0 1901 Download

3DMark03 v3.6.0 1901 Download

[GeorgeVasil]

CINEBENCH R11.5

[GeorgeVasil]

Fraps 3.1.1

3.1.1 - 11th Feb 2010

- Fixed detection of loading screens when recording with unlocked framerate

- Added product information to installer

http://www.fraps.com/news.php

[GeorgeVasil]

HWiNFO32™ 3.41

[antonis]

NVFlash 5.91.01