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Video Memory stress Test is a video memory test very useful for overclockers.
This test allows you to completely test your video RAM (accessible to DirectX). The best way to check stability after overclocking.
The archive contains a README file, which must by read before of program use.
This program is free for home use.
Download: Video Memory stress Test 1.6
GPU Caps Viewer is an OpenGL graphics card utility for Windows XP and Vista (32-bits). This tool offers the following features:
• quick view of the graphics configuration (graphics card / GPU type, amount of video memory, drivers version)
• display of the main OpenGL capabilities (OpenGL version, texture size, number of texture units, etc.)
• display of the OpenGL extensions supported by your graphics card or display of all existing OpenGL extensions no matter what graphics card you have. For each extension, you can open its description webpage available at the OpenGL Extension Registry or at NVIDIA’s OpenGL Extensions spec. Very handy for graphics developers!
• display of the system configuration: CPU type and speed, amount of systeme memory, operating system
display of the GPU core temperature
• GPU Burner: allows to make the GPU temperature climb in order to test the graphics card stability. You can start several stress test demos in the same time in order to make your graphics card working to the maximum.
• list of links related to your graphics card: graphics drivers and graphics cards reviews. These links are regularly updated.
• full report in text and XML format. This kind of report is useful for developers who needs an outline of the customer graphics system (for support purposes for example).
• graphics card validation: your graphics card data is sent to oZone3D.Net server and in return you receive a link on the validation web page. You can use that validation in benchmarks or to help graphics applications developers to solve specific problems
Download: GPU Caps Viewer 1.5.2
The Intel Processor Identification Utility was developed by Intel Corporation to identify the processor inside a system, assuring the processor contains intended technologies and is operating at the tested and rated frequency intended by Intel Corporation.
The Windows version of the Intel Processor Identification Utility is compatible with the following operating systems:
Windows 2000 Professional/Server/Advanced Server (all service packs)
Windows XP Home/Professional (all service packs)
Windows XP Media Center Edition
Windows XP Professional x64 Edition (all service packs)
Windows Server 2003 Standard/Enterprise (all service packs)
Windows Server 2003 x64 Editions (all service packs)
Windows Vista
Info Bag Pro is a neat and simple application that reads low-level hardware information such as CPU Speeds, Installed RAM, Graphic Card Capabilities, Network Performance, Download Speeds, Connected Printers, Disk Temperatures and many others to help users understand what hardware components their system is made of. Then all this information is presented in a clean fashion making it easy and fast to know what machine sits on your desk.
Apart from simply showing you what your system is made up of, Info Bag Pro can test the performance of your system to give you an idea of whether you need an upgrade or not, by comparing your hardware performance with a Medi-Core and a Fast-Core system.
Features
· Low-Level Hardware Information
· Real-Time CPU Usage Meter
· Real-Time Bandwidth Meter
· S.M.A.R.T Enabled Disk Information
Requires Windows XP
Download: Info Bag Pro 5.0.0
Performance Monitor is a small program that shows you the CPU, Memory, Disk and Network utilization under Windows NT platforms (2000, XP, 2003, Vista).
It’s composed by four fully configurable small graphs and it can work in the tray area also.
The windows are fully anchorable and by moving the “CPU” window you’ll move the other attached windows.
PerfMon can become transparent and permits you to forward left-mouse clicks so you can place it anywhere.
You can also change the program priority saving CPU work and double its size for big monitor resolutions.
Performance Monitor is Freeware.
Download: Hexagora Performance Monitor 3.9
CrystalDiskMark is designed to quickly test the performance of your hard drives.
Requirements: Windows Vista/2003/XP/2000/NT4/Me/98/95 (x86/x64)
Download: CrystalDiskMark 2.2.0
Mz Cpu Accelerator is an application that automatically changes the priority of the foreground window, by allocating more CPU power to the currently active application (program-game). Automatically de-allocates CPU priority when a new active application is selected.
It works on any version of Windows.
Download: Mz Cpu Accelerator 2.6.1
Coreinfo is a command-line utility that shows you the mapping between logical processors and the physical processor, NUMA node, and socket on which they reside, as well as the cache’s assigned to each logical processor. It uses the Windows’ GetLogicalProcessorInformation function to obtain this information and prints it to the screen, representing a mapping to a logical processor with an asterisk e.g. ‘*’. Coreinfo is useful for gaining insight into the processor and cache topology of your system.
Download: Coreinfo v1.0
The Belarc Advisor builds a detailed profile of your installed software and hardware, including Microsoft Hotfixes, and displays the results in your Web browser. All of your PC profile information is kept private on your PC and is not sent to any web server.
Operating Systems: Runs on Windows 95/98/Me, NT 4, 2000, XP, 2003 and Vista.
Browsers: Requires IE or Netscape. Also runs on Opera, Mozilla, and Firefox.
Free for personal use only.
Download: Belarc Advisor 7.2x (7.2.24.9)
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 1.11
CPU Speed measures the REAL speed of your Intel or AMD central processing unit (CPU).
If you’ve ever wondered exactly how fast your CPU is running, this great little application will tell you. Simply click the ‘Test my Speed’ button and see CPU Speed go to work.
It only takes a couple of seconds to determine your processor speed. It’s very accurate and takes the guess work out of CPU purchase, overclocking, performance enhancing and testing.
CPU Speed is the internet’s number one CPU speed testing application. Tens of thousands of people download CPU Speed each month to get the ultimate benchmark on their CPU and machine performance.
This software is FREE.
Download: CPU Speed 2.5
The ULTIMATE Processor Speed Test
Use CPU Speed Professional to test your Intel or AMD processor speed. This great little application will tell you the REAL speed of your Central Processing Unit (CPU). You can also submit your speed results to the CPU Speed online WORLD ranking tables and see how your computer compares with others - around the world and in your own country.
CPU Speed is the most accurate and most reliable tool for measuring your computer’s speed. Over one million people have downloaded this great program.
CPU Speed Professional is FREE software.
Download: CPU Speed Professional 3.0.2.3
SIW (System Information for Windows) is an advanced System Information for Windows tool that gathers detailed information about your system properties and settings and displays it in an extremely comprehensible manner.
SIW can create a report file (CSV, HTML, TXT or XML), and is able to run in batch mode (for Asset Inventory Tracking, Computer (Software and Hardware) Inventory, PC Audit, Software Audit, Software License Compliance Management).
The system information is divided into few major categories:
• Software: Operating System, Installed Software and Hotfixes, Processes, Services, Users, Open Files, System Uptime, Installed Codecs, Software Licenses (Product Keys / Serial Numbers / CD Key).
• Hardware: Motherboard, Sensors, BIOS, CPU, chipset, PCI/AGP, USB and ISA/PnP Devices, Memory, Video Card, Monitor, Disk Drives, CD/DVD Devices, SCSI Devices, S.M.A.R.T., Ports, Printers.
• Network: Network Cards, Network Shares, currently active Network Connections, Open Ports.
• Tools: Password Recovery, Reveal lost passwords hidden behind asterisks, MAC Address Changer, Monitor Test, Shutdown / Restart.
• Real-time monitors: CPU, Memory, Page File usage and Network Traffic.
SIW is a standalone utility that does not require installation (Portable Freeware) - one less installed program on your PC as well the fact that you can run the program directly from an USB flash drive, from a floppy, from a network drive or from a domain login script.
Platform: Microsoft Windows 98/Me/NT4/2000/XP/Server 2003/Media Center/Tablet PC/Windows 2003 Server R2/Windows Server 2003 x64/Windows XP x64/Windows Vista/ Windows Vista x64 / Windows Server 2008 / Windows Server 2008 x64 / WinRE / Bart PE / Winternals ERD Commander
Download: SIW 2008-09-03
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 1.47
Active@ Hard Disk Monitor is a freeware disk utility that checks and monitors the status of your hard drives to help prevent data loss. The system is based on the Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology (S.M.A.R.T).
This software utility monitors the HDD SMART status.
For example: hard disk parameters such as Temperature, Head Flying Height and Spin-Up Time to notifies a user if critical conditions occur. Disk Monitor also displays hard disk drive information, current S.M.A.R.T. attributes and the overall status of the hard disk’s health.
Advanced disk scan allows you to detect bad sectors on a disk’s surface. The software can be launched automatically at Windows startup and monitor the system in the background. An icon in the System Tray can display the temperature for selected HDD(s).
Main Features:
- Hard Disk performance monitoring and control
- Based on Self Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology (or S.M.A.R.T.)
- Able to scan and display bad sectors on a disk’s surface.
- Displays current S.M.A.R.T. attributes
- Can be launched automatically at Windows startup and monitor the HDD(s) in the background
- Provides standard hard disk information such as Serial/Model Number, Number of cylinders, and so on.
- Sends an email or a popup notification automatically if critical conditions appear.
- Includes System Tray icon temperature status
- Can generate event log and S.M.A.R.T reports
- The software has an easy to use user interface
Download: Active@ Hard Disk Monitor 1.2
WinRing0 is a hardware access library for Windows.
WinRing0 provides your application to access IO port, MSR, PCI bus, and Physical Memory.
WinRing0 is distributed under a modified BSD license.
Download: WinRing0 1.2.1
CrystalDMI get BIOS information by DMI (Desktop management Interface).
Features
- SMBIOS/DMI Information
- Dump VGA BIOS
- Dump Ext. BIOS
- Dump BIOS
Download: CrystalDMI 1.0.3a Windows Vista/2003/XP/2000/NT4/Me/98/95 (x86/x64)
Core Temp is a compact, no fuss, small footprint program to monitor CPU temperature.
The uniqueness of it is that it shows the temperature of each individual core in a each processor in your system! You can see in real time how the CPU temperature varies when you load your CPU.
Intel and AMD recently published detailed, public information about the “DTS” (Digital Thermal Sensor), which provides much higher accuracy and more relevant temperature reading than the standard thermal diode sensors do.
This feature is supported on all Intel Core and Core 2 series of processors as well as the whole AMD’s AMD64 line of CPUs.
Core Temp also has a logging feature, allowing a user to easily record the temperature of his processor(s) over any period of time, then the data can be easily transfered into an excel datasheet for easy graphing.
Core Temp works on Windows 2000, XP and 2003 (both 32bit and 64bit versions). Windows Vista 32bit is fully supported.
Download: Core Temp 0.99.3
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 0.9.2.341
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