Smart HDD Stretcher and Fisher - Download two Hardware Monitoring Utilities...

Smart HDD Stretcher



This utility allow dramatically increase free disk space and power of system. With Smart HDD Stretcher you can multiple your Disks free space and increase power of your system with one click! For current days HDD Smart STretcher is Most innovative innovation. Now you can simple run Smart HDD Stretcher and no more "Free Space Too Low" messages! Also builtin defragmentator which defragment files after compression/decompression foreven more prerformance!

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Fisherman



You are overclocker?
You have new computer or processor?
You use Srever with important data?
You need simply work without errors?
This Program always check your processor. One or 2... 4... up to 128 !!!
If one or more of your processors have troubles with Integer and/or Floating Point operations Fisherman find it, log it, say you about it BEFORE your system was crashed! Before you lost your data! Overclockers know this troubles! Talk with overclckers! Try it Now!

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ATITool - Overclocking Utility Designed for ATI Video Cards...

Filename: ATITool_0.24.exe

ATITool is an overclocking utility designed for ATI video cards.
Design target is to write a light-weight application for the enthusiast - so no questionable registry tweaks. Sorry.



Main Features

* No limits overclocking.

* Finding maximum core and memory overclock by rendering into a Direct3D window and scanning the output for visual artifacts.

* Temperature monitoring and fan speed control (on supported cards)

* Removal of Catalyst overclocking lock for 9000/9200/9550/9600 series.

* Artifact scanning mode for non-ATI cards - use together with a 3rd party overclocking utility.

* Loading a predefined clock profile on Application/Windows startup.

* Hotkeys that can be used any time to load clocks from a profile.

* 3D application detection (Direct3D 8, Direct3D 9, OpenGL) to overclock your video card only when required.

* Gamma control

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AquaMark - measuring and comparing the performance of the systems...

AquaMark allows PC users to easily measure and compare the performance of their current and next-generation PC systems

AquaMark allows PC users to easily benchmark their current and next-generation PCs by measuring and comparing the performance of the systems.

AquaMark provides a reliable benchmark which helps users to configure their systems for the best gaming performance.



The benchmark executes a complete state-of-the-art game engine and generates 3D scenes designed to make the same demands on hardware as a modern game.

This software utilizes recent hardware features of the new DirectX 9 API, such as PixelShader 2.0, while staying fully backward compatible to DirectX 8 and 7 graphics hardware.

The program offers a great variety of standardized and used defineable evaluation schemes. Intuitive visual output formats help to easily compare results to each other.

AquaMark allows benchmarking in a real-world scenario, with an engine and art assets showing the complexity of current state-of-the-art games.



Requirements:

Minimum Requirements
- System: Windows 98, Windows ME, Windows 2000, Windows XP, DirectX 9
- Graphics card: DirectX 7-compatible 32 MB graphics card with DX9 drivers
- Sound card: DirectX 8-compatible sound card
- Processor: Pentium/Athlon 750
- Memory: 128 MB (256 MB for Win 2000/XP)
Recommended
- System: Windows 98, Windows ME, Windows 2000, Windows XP, DirectX 9
- Graphics card: DirectX 9-compatible 64 MB graphics card
- Sound card: DirectX 8-compatible sound card
- Processor: 1 GHz Pentium/Athlon
- Memory: 256 MB

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Speed Fan - Monitors Voltages, Fan Speed and Temperature...

SpeedFan is a program that monitors voltages, fan speeds and temperatures in computers with hardware monitor chips. SpeedFan can even access S.M.A.R.T. info and show hard disk temperatures. SpeedFan supports SCSI disks too. SpeedFan can even change the FSB on some hardware (but this should be considered a bonus feature). SpeedFan can access digital temperature sensors and can change fan speeds accordingly, thus reducing noise.



SpeedFan can find almost any hardware monitor chip connected to the 2-wire SMBus (System Management Bus (trademark belonging to SMIF, Inc.), a subset of the I2C protocol) and works fine with Windows 9x, ME, NT, 2000, 2003, XP and Windows Vista. It works with Windows 64 bit too.



SpeedFan allows you to have a deeper view of the status of your computer. Almost every computer includes support for hardware monitoring. Accessing digital temperature sensors is really useful. If you are trying to figure out why your pc hangs when under heavy load or after some hours of usage, SpeedFan might help you to find the real cause. Very often it is a poor power supply, or an improperly installed heatsink that lead to behaviours that we tend to associate with errors from the operating system, but that are not. SpeedFan automatically searches your computer for interesting chips: the hardware monitor chips. SpeedFan can expose voltages, fan speeds and temperatures. On rare occasions, the BIOS doesn't activate such features.



SpeedFan tries to enable them as long as this is a safe thing to do. Not only the motherboard is searched, but also some video cards and almost every recent hard disk. SpeedFan can access status info from EIDE, SATA and even SCSI drives, showing, in a consistent way, internal data that can be used to diagnose current and future hard disk failures. This is known as S.M.A.R.T. (Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology). At the lowest level, SpeedFan is a hardware monitor software that can access digital temperature sensors, but its main feature is that it can control fan speeds according to the temperatures inside your pc, thus reducing noise.

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Super-pi - CPU Benchmarking...

UPDATE: Looking for something a bit more up-to-date? Check out HyperPi! It is a front-end to SuperPi-mod to allow multiple instances to be run at the same time and has a work-around for Vista!

In August 1995, the calculation of pi up to 4,294,960,000 decimal digits was succeeded by using a supercomputer at the University of Tokyo. The program was written by D.Takahashi and he collaborated with Dr. Y.Kanada at the computer center, the University of Tokyo. This record should be the current world record. ( Details is shown in the windows help. ) This record-breaking program was ported to personal computer environment such as Windows NT and Windows 95 and called Super PI. In order to calculate 33.55 million digits, it takes within 3 days with Pentium 90MHz, 40MB main memory and 340MB available storage.

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Rthdribl - Real-time High Dynamic Range Image-Based Lighting...

Rthdribl is a "Real-time High Dynamic Range Image-Based Lighting" demo. DirectX(R) 9.0 high-precision texture formats and version-2.0 of Pixel Shader represent real-time true HDR rendering.

Technical features of the demo are:

* True HDR (High-Dynamic Range) Rendering
* IBL (Image-Based Lighting)
* Glare Generation (Afterimage, Bloom, Halo, Ghost, and Star)
* Automatic Exposure Adjustment
* Iris shaped Depth of Field blur
* Realistic Motion Blur
* FSAA (Full-Scene Anti-Alias)
* Fresnel Effect (Specular Reflectance) etc.

Download and Details : http://www.daionet.gr.jp/~masa/rthdribl/

CPU-Z Gathers information on some of the main devices of your system...

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.
* Cache information.

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.

More Information and Downloads : http://www.cpuid.com/cpuz.php

UD Pix - fix LCD screens dead pixels

Description:

This program helps to locate and fix LCD screens dead pixels.

You can fix the stuck pixels by calling them to do rapid changes. You need to run this program for a couple of hours. There is no warranty on the result, but you don't really have anything to lose trying it out.
If you don't know your LCD response time value, just set 25ms

Version:

2.2

Licence:

Freeware

Platform:

Windows Vista/XP/2000 with .NET Framework v2

Download Link : http://udpix.free.fr/index.php?p=dl

CineBench 10 - benchmarking suite for testing processor and graphics card performance.

New version of benchmarking suite for testing processor and graphics card performance.

The completely reworked MAXON CINEBENCH R10 is now available for all users, manufacturers and hardware testers who want to test the performance of graphics cards and CPUs for either Macintosh or Windows systems. The new version of MAXON CINEBENCH R10 contains new test scenes especially designed to meet the demands of state-of-the-art hardware. Like its predecessors, MAXON CINEBENCH R10 is also based on MAXON Computer's Hollywood-proven software, CINEMA 4D.



The CPU test, which renders a 3D scene photo-realistically, now applies even more performance-intensive functions such as area light sources, procedural shaders, Ambient Occlusion and multi-level reflections. Especially when used on faster, multi-core CPU systems, MAXON CINEBENCH R10 delivers much more accurate results.

The graphics cards tests have also been thoroughly reworked. The computer running the test must execute a camera flight at maximum speed to determine the performance of the graphics card.

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Memtest86 Version 3.5 Memory Diagnostic CD-ROM

Memtest86 Release 3.5 is now available

The 3.5 release includes:

• Limited support for execution with multiple CPUs. CPUs are selected round-robin or sequential for each test.
• Support for detection of additional chipsets. (from Memtest86+ v2.11).
• Additions and corrections for CPU detection including reporting of L3 cache.
• Reworked information display for better readability and new information.
• Abbreviated iterations for first pass.
• Enhancements to memory sizing.
• Misc bug fixes.

A Memtest86 diagnostic CD-ROM is available from BradyTech Inc. The Memtest86 CD-ROM includes:

• The latest version (3.5) of Memtest86 pre-installed and ready to use.
• An experimental SMP version of Memtest86 that uses mutilple CPUs.
• The previous (3.4) version of Memtest86.
• A boot menu that allows users to select the above test programs.
• An extensive user guide with simple step-by-step instructions for using Memtest86 to diagnose and troubleshoot PC memory problems.
• Detailed instructions for using Memtest86 to safely over-clock your PC.

Download and Details : http://www.memtest86.com/

OCZ Technology Announces the Latest XTC Rev. 2 Memory Cooler

OCZ Technology Group, a worldwide leader in innovative, ultra-high performance and high reliability memory and computer components, today unveiled the latest memory cooling accessory, the OCZ XTC (Xtreme Thermal Convection) Cooler Revision 2 to promote dedicated airflow to modules. Active cooling combined with passive thermal solutions is extremely important in any rigorous overclocking environment, and OCZ developed the next generation XTC Cooler for supreme heat management of OCZ’s complete lineup of high-speed RAM.



“The first revision of the OCZ XTC Memory Cooler proved to be a very popular product with a wide range of enthusiast and power users,” said Ryan Edwards, Director of Product Management for OCZ. “We are excited to now offer a follow-up design with improved performance, an enhanced feature set, and a sleek new look, all at the same affordable price point as the original. The XTC Cooler Rev. 2 is fully compatible with the complete range of OCZ high-performance memory products.”

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EVEREST Ultimate Edition - industry leading system diagnostics and benchmarking solution for enthusiasts PC users

EVEREST Ultimate Edition is an industry leading system diagnostics and benchmarking solution for enthusiasts PC users, based on the award-winning EVEREST Technology. During system optimizations and tweaking it provides essential system and overclock information, advanced hardware monitoring and diagnostics capabilities to check the effects of the applied settings. CPU, FPU and memory benchmarks are available to measure the actual system performance and compare it to previous states or other systems. Furthermore, complete software, operating system and security information makes EVEREST Ultimate Edition a comprehensive system diagnostics tool that offers a total of 100 pages of information about your PC.

Motherboard & CPU Accurate low-level information about motherboard, CPU and BIOS, including chipset details, DMI enumeration, AGP configuration information, SPD memory modules list, DRAM timing information and CPU instruction set support.

Video adapter & monitor Detailed information about the video adapter, video drivers and monitor, including DDC information, monitor serial number and supported video modes detection, low-level GPU details, OpenGL and Direct3D features list.

Storage devices Information about all hard disk and optical disk drives, including IDE autodetection, S.M.A.R.T. disk health monitoring, ASPI SCSI devices list and partitions information.

Network adapters, multimedia, input devices Exhaustive information about network adapters, sound cards, keyboard, mouse and game controllers, including NIC MAC address detection, IP and DNS list, network traffic monitoring, DirectSound, DirectMusic and DirectInput information.

Misc hardware Information about PCI, PnP, PCMCIA and USB devices, communication ports, power management information, device resources list, printers information

Download and Details : http://www.lavalys.com/products.php?ps=UE&lang=en&page=48

RivaTuner - fan speed & Overclock Guide

RivaTuner is a complete powerful tweaking environment, providing you everything you may need to tune NVIDIA GPU based display adapters. The widest driver-level Direct3D / OpenGL and system tuning options, flexible profiling system allowing to make custom settings on per-application basis, both driver-level and low-level hardware access modes, unique diagnostic and realtime hardware monitoring features and exclusive power user oriented tools like built-in registry editor and patch script engine make RivaTuner's feature set absolutely unmatched.
RivaTuner supports all NVIDIA display adapters starting from Riva TNT family up to the latest GeForce 7 series and widest range of NVIDIA drivers starting from the oldest Detonator 2.08 up to the newest ForceWare drivers family.

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• RivaTuner 2.0 fan speed & Overclock Guide

In addition to complete NVIDIA hardware support, RivaTuner also provides limited support for display adapters based upon ATI RADEON 8500

and newer ATI graphics processors. All RivaTuner's features besides driver-level tuning options are also available on supported ATI hardware.

Full Details : http://www.guru3d.com/index.php?page=rivatuner

Download : http://downloads.guru3d.com/RivaTuner-v2.24-download-163.html

3DMark06 - 3D game performance benchmark

3DMark06 is a PC benchmark suite designed to test the DirectX9 performance of your graphics card.

A 3DMark score is an overall measure of your system’s 3D gaming capabilities, based on comprehensive real-time 3D graphics and processor tests. By comparing your score with those submitted by millions of other gamers you can see how your gaming rig performs, making it easier to choose the most effective upgrades or finding other ways to optimize your system.

3DMark06 has been downloaded more than any other 3D benchmark and the ORB database now contains over 8.5 million 3DMark06 benchmark scores from around the world.

3DMark06 Advanced and Professional Edition Features

3DMark06 includes advanced Shader Model 2.0 and 3.0 graphics tests as well as single CPU, multiple core and multiple processor tests as part of the 3DMark score.

With 3DMark06 Advanced and Professional Editions, you get a comprehensive suite of 3D gaming benchmarking tools. All the tests, settings and options needed to run accurate and dependable performance analysis are included in one easy to use application.

Download and Details : http://www.futuremark.com/benchmarks/3dmark06/download/

Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search - GIMPS

GIMPS was featured recently on National Public Radio! Please join us in the search for new huge prime numbers -- just for the fun of it. Plus, your computer will appreciate being used to its full potential.

1. Register a new user account login (Optional).

Your account login is the "container" that holds your preferences, your computer and work assignments info, and your productivity statistics. There is no limit to the number of computers you can have in your account.

Optional, but required to check your account details, computer status and performance statistics and to assign computers to your user ID, and if you joined GIMPS before November 2008, to link your PrimeNet V4.0 account(s) and transfer your CPU work credit.

2. Download and install Prime95 or similar software onto your computer (or computers).

The How it Works page answers many questions you may have before downloading the software. Versions of the software program have been successfully used since 1996 on hundreds of thousands of home, office, school and business computers, but be sure to first get permission from the computer's owner if it's not yours! The software program uses only the leftover idle processor cycles unused by other programs.

3. Start the software program and enter your user account login (if you created one).

The program will automatically 'bind' itself to your user account when you enter your user account login into the program, and starts working immediately! You can see each computer added to your account using your Computer CPU Details page, as well as what it is working upon.

Link : http://www.mersenne.org/

PC Power & Cooling Silencer 910 PSU review

PC Power & Cooling is a company that has a long lasting name and reputation in the business of power supplies. Their reputation is based on a simple fact: they build high-quality power supplies that last.

They do not care about modability, sheer looks, cable management or bling fans. No Sir, PC Power & Cooling is all about the essence of a high quality power supply. Nothing more. So if we were to stereotype them with one word, then it has to be "quality".

Now, in the world of power supplies a lot has changed over the years. Everybody is selling the darn things and the funny thing is, there are probably less than ten real power supply manufacturers on this globe. Saturated is what this market is, but that's not exactly a negative thing though. The demand for power supplies versus the numerous brands available these days had a positive effect: seen overall, the quality of power supplies have become much much better. Next to that you got more options and features as well. Last but not least, a hip thing these days is of course the efficiency of the power supply.

PC Power and cooling creates the best of the best among power supplies, they however keep their design simple. No multiple 12 Volts rails, no Sir, it all comes from one single rail, apparently more robust and efficient. Cable management ? Ehm, no Sir, all cables are connected as modability would have an effect on overall efficiency here as well.

With a PC power and Cooling power supply, you go back to basics, yet with build quality that is unprecedented. Recently PC P&C released their new Silencer 910W model. A near kilowatt power supply with an efficiency that is bloody fantastic at roughly 88%. Anyone remember the dull grey power supplies from 3-4 years ago? these were ~70% efficient. So if you plan something really high-end that sucks up a lot of power, a PSU like shown today will actually help you save energy and thus reduce your energy bill.

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Fraps - 3D benchmark, fps viewer and Screen Recorder

Fraps is a universal Windows application that can be used with all games using DirectX or OpenGL technology. In its current form Fraps performs many tasks and can best be described as:

Benchmarking Software - See how many Frames Per Second (FPS) you are getting in a corner of your screen. Perform custom benchmarks and measure the frame rate between any two points. Save the statistics out to disk and use them for your own reviews and applications.

Screen Capture Software - Take a screenshot with the press of a key! There's no need to paste into a paint program every time you want to capture the screen. Your screen captures are also automatically named and timestamped.

Realtime Video Capture Software - Have you ever wanted to record video while playing your favourite game? Come join the Machinima revolution! Throw away the VCR, forget about using a DV cam, game recording has never been this easy! Fraps can capture audio and video up to 1152x864 and 100 frames per second!

Download Link : http://www.fraps.com/download.php

CPU RightMark - CPU Overclock Software

The CPU RightMark (CPU RM) benchmark is meant for objective performance measurement of modern and future CPUs in various computational tasks such as physical process modelling and 3D graphics issue solving. The emphasis is placed on testing under the load of a CPU-RAM bundle and FPU/SIMD units.

What is pure performance?

When applications are tested to measure processor performance, test results are often affected by other subsystems such as video or storage. Sometimes operating system interaction with peripherals effects as well. That is why even if we compare identical systems on different processors it would be difficult to get just a comparative assessment of pure processor performance instead of general software/hardware performance.



The CPU RM benchmark eliminates influence of all subsystems, except for memory and CPU-RAM bus, at the expense of measuring performance of different test application parts, which operation time is not related to "external" task execution time. For example, video pages changeover and hard drive access. Only processor operating time is considered.

Download and Details : http://cpu.rightmark.org/download.shtml

SiSoftware Sandra (the System ANalyser, Diagnostic and Reporting Assistant)

SiSoftware Sandra (the System ANalyser, Diagnostic and Reporting Assistant) is an information & diagnostic utility. It should provide most of the information (including undocumented) you need to know about your hardware, software and other devices whether hardware or software.

Sandra is a (girl) name of Greek origin that means "defender", "helper of mankind". We think that's quite fitting.

It works along the lines of other Windows utilities, however it tries to go beyond them and show you more of what's really going on. Giving the user the ability to draw comparisons at both a high and low-level. You can get information about the CPU, chipset, video adapter, ports, printers, sound card, memory, network, Windows internals, AGP, PCI, PCI-X, PCIe (PCI Express), database, USB, USB2, 1394/Firewire, etc.

Native ports for all major operating systems are available:

• Windows XP, 2003, Vista, 2008 (x86)
• Windows XP, 2003, Vista, 2008 (x64)
• Windows 2003/2008* (IA64)
• Windows Mobile 5 (ARM CE 5.01)
• Windows Mobile 6 (ARM CE 5.02)

All major technologies are supported and taken advantage of:

• SMP - Multi-Processor
• MC - Multi-Core
• SMT/HT - Hyper-Threading
• MMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSSE3, SSE 4.1, SSE 4.2, AVX, FMA - Multi-Media instructions
• GPGPU, DirectX, OpenGL - Graphics
• NUMA - Non-Uniform Memory Access
• AMD64/EM64T/x64 - 64-bit extensions to x86
• IA64 - Intel* Itanium 64-bit

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CrystalCPUID - CrystalCPUID is a CPU utility software.

CrystalCPUID is a CPU utility software.

CrystalDiskInfo is a HDD/SSD utility which supports S.M.A.R.T.

• Supports a part of external USB/IEEE 1394 disks
• Monitoring health status and temperature
• Graph of S.M.A.R.T. information
• Control AAM/APM settings

Key Features

• Support AMD64/EM64T
• Intel SpeedStep Control
• AMD K6/K7/K8/GeodeLX Multiplier/Voltage Control
• VIA CyrixIII/C3 Multiplier Control
• Multiplier Management
• MSR Editor/MSR Walker
• 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

More Details and Downloads : http://crystalmark.info/download/index-e.html