Archive for the ‘Hardware’ Category
Thursday, July 3rd, 2008 |
NextSensor is extremely easy to use temperature and voltage monitoring tool with an advanced graphic interface. Provides probing of Vcore, VDIMM, VAGP, VBAT, 5VSB, 3VSB, +12, -12, +5V, -5V, +3.3V sensor lines. Shows the temperature of the Processor, the North Bridge and the Hard Disk on the Tray Bar using separate LED indicators.
The program is capable to monitor negative temperatures and three FAN speeds. The current version supports many popular Winbond, Fintek and ITE Super I/O LPC chips. Besides, NextSensor incorporates a unique Remote Monitor function that enables system administrators to watch the temperatures, voltages and fan speeds no matter where they are, in LAN or via Internet using any web browser!
Operating System: Windows 9x/NT/2000/2003/XP/x64
Download. NextSensor 2.7.5.1 build 0703 Final
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Thursday, July 3rd, 2008 |
Driver Magician Lite is freeware, it identifies all the hardware in the system, extracts their associated drivers from the hard disk and backs them up to a location of your choice. Then when you format and reinstall/upgrade your operating system, you can restore all the “saved” drivers just as if you had the original driver diskettes in your hands.
Supports Windows 98, SE, ME, 2000, XP, 2003 and Vista
Download: Driver Magician Lite 3.40
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Monday, June 30th, 2008 |
Since 1996 PC Wizard is among the most advanced system information programs on the market. PC WIZARD 2008 is a powerful utility designed especially for detection of hardware, but also some more analysis. It’s able to identify a large scale of system components and supports the latest technologies and standards. This tool is periodically updated (usually once per month) in order to provide most accurate results. PC WIZARD 2008 is also an utility designed to analyze and benchmark your computer system. It can analyze and benchmark many kinds of hardware, such as CPU performance, Cache performance, RAM performance, Hard Disk performance, CD/DVD-ROM performance, Removable/FLASH Media performance, Video performance, MP3 compression performance. PC WIZARD 2008 can be distributed freely (ftp, archives, CD-ROMs …).
Download: PC Wizard 2008.1.85
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Monday, June 30th, 2008 |
GPU-Z is a lightweight utility designed to give you all information about your video card and GPU.
Main Features
· Support NVIDIA and ATI cards
· Displays adapter, GPU and display information
· Displays overclock, default clocks and 3D clocks (if available)
· Validation of results
· No installation required
· Support for Windows 2000 / XP / Vista (both 32 and 64 bit versions are supported)
Download: GPU-Z 0.2.5
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Monday, June 30th, 2008 |
Central Brain Identifier is designed to provide detailed identification and obtaining the most complete information about all AMD processors. It recognizes more than 50 various models of the AMD processors. It shows not only the general information about the processor, but also allows to determine its important technical features, such as processor core name, core revision, a nominal processor frequency, the date of announce, an OPN number, the components of the PowerNow! Technology and also independently computes an XP-Rating for processors having a Model Number. The program is capable to detect the core voltage of mobile AMD processors and the newest AMD Athlon 64 processor. Advanced recognition methods can accurately determine mobile, desktop and server variants of the AMD processors. The power diagnostic capabilities provide the most complete information about the processor cache. The program incorporates tweak features such as processor name modification, L1 Cache ECC control and Clock Control Register correction and DRAM timing control. Central Brain Identifier is aggressively aimed to compete with well-known processor diagnostic tools.
Operating System: Windows NT/2000/2003/XP/x64
Download: Central Brain Identifier Black Edition 1.0.0.5 Beta 5 Build 0629
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Monday, June 30th, 2008 |
CrystalDiskInfo is a HDD utility software which supports S.M.A.R.T.
Requirements: Windows Vista/XP/2000
Download: CrystalDiskInfo 1.0.10a
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Sunday, June 29th, 2008 |
MemTest is a RAM reliability tester that runs under Windows. It evaluates the ability of your computer’s memory to store and retrieve data accurately. A correctly functioning computer should be able to do both these tasks with 100% accuracy day in and day out. A computer that fails these tests, perhaps because of old hardware, damaged hardware, or poorly configured hardware, will be less stable and crash more often. Even worse, it will become even less stable over time as corrupted data is written to your hard disk.
By running MemTest you can ensure that your computer’s RAM is correctly functioning. It is wise to test this when you buy a new computer, install new RAM, or change the configuration of your machine (for instance, to overclock it). Are you the sort of user who likes to push the performance of your machine to the edge? Relying upon whether your machine will boot after your new BIOS tweaks is a poor way to determine the safety of your new settings. Use MemTest as a true test of stability.
All versions of Windows are supported: Windows 95, 98, ME, NT, 2000, 2003, XP, Vista
Download: MemTest 3.7
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Saturday, June 28th, 2008 |
The RightMark Audio Analyzer (RMAA) suite is designed for testing quality of analog and digital paths of any audio devices, be it a sound card, an MP3 player, a consumer CD/DVD player or an acoustic set. The results are obtained by playing and recording test signals passed through the tested audio path by means of frequency analysis algorithms. A more common mark is also provided for those unfamiliar with measured technical parameters.
Download: RightMark Audio Analyzer 6.1.1
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Saturday, June 28th, 2008 |
CPU-Z is a freeware that gathers information on some of the main devices of your system.
CPU
- Name and number.
- Core stepping and process.
- Package.
- Core voltage.
- Internal and external clocks, clock multiplier.
- Supported instructions sets.
- All cache levels (location, size, speed, technology).
Mainboard
- Vendor, model and revision.
- BIOS model and date.
- Chipset (northbridge and southbridge) and sensor.
- Graphic interface.
Memory
- Frequency and timings.
- Module(s) specification using SPD (Serial Presence Detect) : vendor, serial number, timings table.
System
- Windows and DirectX version.
Download: CPU-Z 1.46
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Saturday, June 28th, 2008 |
HWMonitor is a hardware monitoring program that reads PC systems main health sensors : voltages, temperatures, fans speed.
The program handles the most common sensor chips, like ITE® IT87 series, most Winbond® ICs, and others. In addition, it can read modern CPUs on-die core thermal sensors, as well has hard drives temperature via S.M.A.R.T, and video card GPU temperature.
Special hardware monitors such as abit® uGuru and Gigabyte® ODIN™ power supplies serie are supported too.
The HWMonitor’s PC health monitoring engine is available for customized use through the CPUID System Monitoring Development Kit, a professional SDK built for the Microsoft Windows operating systems.
Download: HWMonitor 1.10
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Tuesday, June 24th, 2008 |
Xinorbis is a simple but powerful hard disk analyser. Using a sophisticated mix of graphs, tables and tree displays, it gives the user a complete overview of the contents of a hard disk (or directory). It makes it easy to see the contents, structure and file distribution and file composition of a whole hard disk, directory, or mapped network drive. Includes full report creation.
Features include;
· analyse a single drive / directory or merge several together in one report
· complex report generation, with export to HTML, ASCII or XML
· save reports and compare them to see how the contents has changed
· all information displays are completely resizable for ease of viewing
· XP style support
· improved speed
· shell support, scan a directory through explorer!
Platform: Windows 2000/XP/Vista
Download: Xinorbis 3.7.1
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Tuesday, June 24th, 2008 |
USBDeview is a small utility that lists all USB devices that currently connected to your computer, as well as all USB devices that you previously used.
For each USB device, exteneded information is displayed: Device name/description, device type, serial number (for mass storage devices), the date/time that device was added, VendorID, ProductID, and more…
USBDeview also allows you to uninstall USB devices that you previously used, and disconnect USB devices that are currently connected to your computer.
You can also use USBDeview on a remote computer, as long as you login to that computer with admin user.
USBDeview works on Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista. Windows 98/ME is not supported.
This utility is released as freeware.
Download: USBDeview 1.21
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Wednesday, June 18th, 2008 |
Resolution Changer allows you to change your desktop width, height, color depth, and refresh rate (frequency) temporarily or permanently (via command line switches). You can have Resolution Changer run another application in a specific display resolution and return to the previous resolution when the application finishes. The command lines switches let you alter only certain dimensions and choose the best refresh rate (or a specific one).
Resolution Changer is free for personal and educational use. If you’d like to use it in a commercial environment (e.g., to use it with a product you sell or release internally), you must purchase a commercial license.
Resolution Changer runs on Microsoft Windows Vista, XP Home and Professional, 2000, Me, NT, and 98.
Download: Resolution Changer 4.00 Beta 2
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Wednesday, June 18th, 2008 |
SpeedFan is a freeware program that monitors voltages, fan speeds and temperatures in computers with hardware monitor chips. SpeedFan can even access S.M.A.R.T. info for those hard disks that support this feature and show hard disk temperatures too, if supported. SpeedFan supports SCSI disks too. SpeedFan can even change the FSB on some hardware (but this should be considered a bonus feature). At the lowest level, SpeedFan is an hardware monitor software that can access temperature sensors, but its main feature is that it can control fan speeds (depending on the capabilities of your sensor chip and your hardware) according to the temperatures inside your pc, thus reducing noise and power consumption.
It includes a lot of new features, improvements and bug fixes. Abit uGuru 3 is now implemented for a couple of motherboards.
Download: SpeedFan 4.35 Beta
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Monday, June 16th, 2008 |
SIV by Ray Hinchliffe. ‘System Information Viewer’ is a general Windows utility for displaying lots of useful Windows, Network and hardware info - CPU info, PCI info, PCMCIA info, USB info, Machine Info, Hardware Sensors, Networked computers, Operating System Information and more.
SIV is designed for Windows XP/Vista/2003/2000/NT4. Windows 95, 98 and Me are also supported.
Download: SIV 3.31
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Monday, June 16th, 2008 |
AMD64 CPU Assistant is designed to monitor the temperature of a AMD64 CPU core using the processor’s on-die thermal sensor.
License: Freeware
Requires: Windows 2000, Win XP (x86/x64), Win 2003 (x86/x64), Win Vista (x86 only)
Download: AMD64 CPU Assistant 0.9.1.334
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Monday, June 16th, 2008 |
CrystalMark is a 32bit Benchmark Software.
Features
- CPU (ALU/FPU)
- Memory
-? HDD
- Graphics (GDI/DirecDraw/OpenGL)
- BIOS/Mother Board Information
- CPU (Clock, Cache, Multiplier, System Clock …)
- Chipset (North/South)
- Video (Driver Information/ Video RAM)
- Netwark Information
- PCI Device
- IDE HDD Information
- DLL Information (Windows / VisualC++ / VisualBasic / Archiver )
- Wallpaper
Download: CrystalMark 2004R3 0.9.125.409 Windows Vista/2003/XP/2000/Me/98
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Monday, June 16th, 2008 |
CrystalCPUID is a CPU utility.
Features
· Support AMD64/EM64T
· Intel SpeedStep Control (AT YOUR OWN RISK)
· AMD K6/K7/K8 Multiplier/Voltage Change (AT YOUR OWN RISK)
· VIA CyrixIII/C3 Multiplier Change (AT YOUR OWN RISK)
· Multiplier Management
· MSR Editor/MSR Walker (AT YOUR OWN RISK)
· Clock, Cache, System Clock, Multiplier
· Feature Flags
· CPUID
· Process Rule
· Code Name
· Multi Processor
· PCI Device List
· Chipset/VGA information
· BIOS Information
· Change Dialog Font
· Change Wallpaper
OS : Windows Vista/2003/XP/2000/NT4/Me/98/95 x86/x64
Download: CrystalCPUID 4.14.5.409
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Thursday, June 12th, 2008 |
Display Tuner provides convenient access to the monitor settings, such as brightness, contrast, color settings or geometry. If your monitor has speakers or a microphone, Display Tuner will allow you to change their volume easily. You can define several profiles with different color settings (for example, “Films”, “Text”, “Games”) and Display Tuner will allow you to easily change the color settings, just press a hotkey! There is no need to use the OSD of the monitor anymore, Display Tuner is a much more convenient tool!
Display Tuner supports all monitors whose settings can be changed from Windows. It works in Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista and it supports almost all video cards: nVidia, ATI, Intel, S3, SiS, Matrox, etc.
Display Tuner is much more convenient than MagicTune, NaViSet or similar software:
· Display Tuner supports all monitors whose settings can be changed from Windows, not monitors of only one manufacturer.
· Display Tuner allows you to have several color profiles and easily switch between them using a hotkey.
· Display Tuner starts faster and it can be minimized to the system tray.
· Display Tuner has an easy-to-use interface.
Download: Display Tuner 1.6
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