FAQs, Monitoring Programs, Benchmarks, Bios/Drivers, & Other Apps for ALL

[SupermanCK]

LATEST UPDATE (02/13/2004):

1) Monitoring programs:

• <a target=new class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="http://mbm.livewiredev.com/">Motherboard Monitor (MBM)</a>
• <a target=new class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="http://www.asus.com.tw/">Asus Probe</a> ASUS mobo owners only
• <a target=new class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="http://www.almico.com/speedfan.php">SpeedFan</a>. Enjoy
• <a target=new class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="http://www2.lm-sensors.nu/~lm78/index.html">lm_sensors</a> - Linux User Only
• <a target=new class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="">http://www.voodoofiles.com/7693">MCO</a>[/BULLET
  2) System benchmarks:
  • <a target=new class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="http://www.cpuid.com/pcw">PC Wizard </a>
  • <a target=new class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="http://www.sisoftware.co.uk/index.php?location=update">Sisoftware Sandra 2003</a>
  • <a target=new class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="http://www.aida32.hu/aida-download.php?bit=32">Aida</a>, <a target=new class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="http://www.aida32.hu/aida32.php">Aida Main Page</a>
  • <a target=new class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="http://gamershq.madonion.com/download/?pcmark2002.shtml">PC Mark 2002</a>
  • <a target=new class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="http://www.passmark.com/index.html">PassMark</a>
  • <a target=new class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="http://home.planet.nl/~wande160/">CPUBench</a>
  • <a target=new class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="http://www.tweakers.net/meuktracker/1525">NBench 2.0</a> - For AMD Users
  3) Video benchmarks:
  • <a target=new class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="http://www.aquamark3.com/">Aquamark3</a> - NEW upcoming!!! - but no available benchmark yet
  • <a target=new class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="http://www.futuremark.com/download/">3DMark2000 v1.1, 3DMark2001 SE, 3DMark2003</a>
  • <a target=new class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="http://www.guru3d.com/q3bench/">Q3Bench@Guru3D</a> - If you have a copy of Quake III
  • <a target=new class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="http://www.guru3d.com/files/">Codecreatures Benchmark Pro @ Guru3D</a> - under Benchmarks &amp; Demo's
  • <a target=new class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="http://nvidia.com.pl/cgi-bin/get.pl?ftp://ftp.nvidia.pl/pub/Dema_NVIDIA/crytek_x_isle.zip&amp;">X-Isle Benchmark via Nvision</a> (18mb.zip), <a target=new class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="http://home.attbi.com/~d2rook/pics/x-isle_v13.zip">X-Isle v1.03 Patch</a>.
  • <a target=new class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="http://www.novalogic.com/games.asp?GameKey=C4">Comanche 4</a>
  • <a target=new class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="http://www.glexcess.com">GLExcess</a>
  • <a target=new class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="http://www.seriouszone.com">Serious Sam - demos download</a> - it's all on the left menu
  • <a target=new class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="http://www.unrealtournament2003.com/?downloads">Unreal Tournament 2003 DEMO</a>, <a target=new class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="http://www.hardocp.com/article.html?art=MzY4">UT2k3 Benchmarking Utility @ HardOCP</a>, <a target=new class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="http://www.hardocp.com/article.html?art=NDQy">UT2k3 Benchmarking Utility 2.1 @ HardOCP</a> - scroll to bottom for the download link
  4) Stability tests:
  • <a target=new class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="http://www.kiki-koko.com/cpueatncool">CPU Eat 'n' Cool</a>
  • <a target=new class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="http://www.mersenne.org/freesoft.htm">Prime95</a> - run for X hours to your satisfaction , good for determining max CPU load temperature
  • <a target=new class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="http://www.futuremark.com/download/">3DMark2001 SE</a> - do loop tests for X hours
  • <a target=new class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="http://www.opusware.net/downloads.htm">Hot CPU Tester 3.3</a>
  • <a target=new class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="http://benchmarkhq.ru/cgi-bin/click.cgi?172">Toast</a>
  • <a target=new class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="http://benchmarkhq.ru/cgi-bin/click.cgi?152">Super Pi</a>
  • <a target=new class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href=""><a target=_blank class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="http://www.passmark.com/products/bit.htm">Passmark</a>
  http://]http://www.passmark.com/products/bit.htm">Passmark</a></U">http://www.passmark.com/products/bit.htm">Passmark</a>[/BULLET</a>[/L]
  5) Other useful application:
  • <a target=new class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="http://hp.vector.co.jp/authors/VA002374/src/download.html">WCPUid</a> - tells your CPU info and few Memory info.
  • <a target=new class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="http://www.cpuid.com/cpuz.htm">CPU-z</a> - tells your system components, settings
  • <a target=new class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="http://www.tcdlabs.com/hdtach.htm">HD Tach</a> - bench your hard disks, IBM hd owners beware, this program is known to kill your drive.
  • <a target=new class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="http://www.memtest86.com/">Memtest86</a> - bench your memory and stability
  • <a target=new class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="http://www.goldmemory.cz/">GoldMemory</a> - bench your memory for stability and errors
  • <a target=new class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="http://downloadfinder.intel.com/scripts-df/Product_Filter.asp?ProductID=663">Intel Application Accellerator</a> - increase HD performance
  • <a target=new class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="http://downloadfinder.intel.com/scripts-df/Product_Filter.asp?ProductID=861">Intel Chipset ID Utility</a>
  • <a target=new class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="http://downloadfinder.intel.com/scripts-df/Product_Filter.asp?ProductID=816">Intel Inf Driver</a>
  • <a target=new class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="http://www.analogx.com/contents/download/network.htm">Net Stat Live and HyperTrace</a>
  6) Chipset/Video drivers:
  • <a target=new class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="http://www.nvidia.com/view.asp?PAGE=drivers">Nvidia</a> - Latest WHQL Driver for all OS, <a target=new class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="http://www.entechtaiwan.com/ps.htm">Powerstrip</a>, <a target=new class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="http://www.overclockers.com.au/techstuff/a_coolbits/">Nvidia "Coolbits" Registry Hack</a> - Adds Overclocking tab to Detonator driver settings panel
  • <a target=new class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="http://www.ati.com/support/driver.html">ATi</a> - Lastest Drivers, <a target=new class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="http://www.rage3d.com/files/">Rage3D</a>, <a target=new class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="http://radeontweaker.sourceforge.net/">RadeonTweaker</a>
  • <a target=new class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="http://www.matrox.com/mga/support/drivers/home.cfm">Matrox</a>
  • <a target=new class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="http://xabregamers.free.fr/modules/mydownloads/">SiS Xabre</a>
  • <a target=new class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="http://www.viaarena.com/?PageID=2">Via</a>
  • <a target=new class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/search.asp?">Microsoft DirectX 8.1b</a> - Type in "DirectX" and choose your operating system.
  • <a target=new class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=51608b06-ae0d-4652-b9a0-eae0aa6ae6d7&amp;DisplayLang=en">Microsoft DirectX 9.0</a>
  • <a target=new class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="http://downloadfinder.intel.com/scripts-df/Product_Filter.asp?ProductID=816">Intel Chipset Drivers</a>
  • <a target=new class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="http://www.omegacorner.com/">Omega's driver</a> - these are the best set of nvidia driver that i have tested!
  • <a target=new class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="http://www.warp2search.net/download.php">Latest video drivers w/o WHQL</a>
  • <a target=new class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="http://www.reactorcritical.com/">Reactorcritical</a> for latest Nvidia &amp; ATI drivers, and other pertinent news
  • <a target=new class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="http://www.x-bios.3dgames.ru/modules.php?name=X_BIOS_FileArchive&amp;op=download&amp;ini=1?=english&amp;dir=files/other&amp;fname=v4.15.zip&amp;dc=NVFlash 4.15">NV flash</a> - (bios flasher), <a target=new class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="http://www.guru3d.com/xbios/">NV Bios Editor</a>, <a target=new class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="http://x-bios.3dgames.ru/">website they came from</a>
  7) Bios:
  • <a target=new class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="http://www.abit.com.tw/abitweb/webjsp/english/download_search_process.jsp?pTYPE=Bios">Abit</a>
  • <a target=new class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="ftp://ftp.asuscom.de/pub/ASUSCOM/BIOS/">Asus FTP</a>
  • <a target=new class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="http://www.epox.com/html/support.asp?lang=1">Epox</a>
  • <a target=new class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="http://www.giga-byte.com/support/support.htm">Gigabyte</a> - follow Bios/Driver Link
  • <a target=new class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="http://downloadfinder.intel.com/scripts-df/Support_Intel.asp">Intel</a>
  • <a target=new class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="http://support.iwill.net/index_e.html">iWill</a>
  • <a target=new class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="http://www.msi.com.tw/program/support/bios/bos/spt_bos_list.php">MSI</a>
  • <a target=new class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="http://www.spacewalker.com/english/download.htm">Shuttle</a>
  • <a target=new class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="http://www.soyousa.com/downloads/">Soyo</a>
  • <a target=new class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="http://www.supermicro.com/TECHSUPPORT/BIOS/bios.htm">Super Micro</a>
  8) Misc. (maybe) useful apps and links
  • <a target=new class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="http://www.bleedinedge.com">BleedinEdge.com</a> - BleedinEdge Website by ppl like us
  • <a target=new class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="http://www.sjbentley.btinternet.co.uk/asus.htm">Wcpredit &amp; Wcprset info</a>
  • <a target=new class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="http://nvidia.com.pl/download.html?Programy ">Nvision</a> - many fun stuff here
  • <a target=new class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="http://www.benchmarkhq.ru/english.html">BenchmarkHQ</a> - benchmarks and more
  • <a target=new class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="http://www6.tomshardware.com/column/01q4/011124/index.html">Unlocking the XP\MP Processor with video</a> - AMD ONLY, and need <a target=new class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="http://www.divx.com">DIVX</a> to play.
  • <a target=new class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="http://www.hexus.net/review.php?review=278">P4 voltage wire trick @ hexus</a>, or <a target=new class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="http://www2.justnet.ne.jp/%7Ekiti/Paso/00pen4-3/northwood01.htm">2nd link @ justnet</a>, or <a target=new class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="http://www.virtual-hideout.net/articles/p4northwood_ocing_adventure_part2/index.shtml">3rd link @ virtual-hideout.net</a>. - INTEL ONLY
  • <a target=new class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="http://www.benchtest.com/calc.html">CPU Wattage Checker</a> - This site helps calculate CPU Wattage
    AMD Usefuls
  • <a target=new class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="http://www.ocinside.de/index_e.html?/html/workshop/socketa/socketa_resistors.html">Unlocking and Mulipliers</a>
  • <a target=new class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="http://www.beachlink.com/candjac/TbredDecode0.htm">Overclocking &amp; Decoding</a>
  • <a target=new class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="http://www.amdboard.com/amdid.html">CPU Indentification</a>
    Intel Usefuls
  • <a target=new class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="http://www.intel.com/support/processors/sspec/p4p.htm">Intel Processor Finder</a>
  
  Thank you for your additional inputs:
  Thanks Packy, CrawlingEye, Jaybee, jyrgen, DAPUNISHER, MrPeepers, SP33Demon, CrazySaint, jhites, wasnlos, Nighthawk69, alexruiz, Lastride, ErikaeanLogic, and other AT peeps...
  and thank you AT Mods for sticky too
  
  HTH for all Newbies ATer
  
  Feel free to link up more if you think it is appropiate! I will input them as i see more links
  LMK if any broken links. Enjoy.

 

[THUGSROOK]

very nice post

 

[dbwillis]

Yeh, thanks,,FedEx jsut dropped some toys off at my place this AM..cant wait to get home tomorrow AM and unpack, it'll be like xmas again!

(P4B533/1.6a/Samsung/GF2ti)

 

[THUGSROOK]

 

[Mikki]

SupermanCK, great post, I've ended up with all of them over the last couple weeks. I don't have Quake (not my kinda game), but I do have Jedi Knight II (also not my kinda game, but I'm a Star Wars nut). They aren't the same benchmark are they? JK2 is supposed to be based on the Q3 engine, but I've noticed that Quake bench scores are a lot higher than JK2 bench scores. Ain't no sense in running JK2 benches when I have no one to compare it too....

 

[THUGSROOK]

 

[Mikki]

Excellent point, don't really use it to compare to others anyway. Thanks

 

[SupermanCK]

Updated!!!

 

[dbwillis]

Thanks, I grabbed the XIsle bench..Ill run it on both my systems and compare...(p4s533 and p4b533)

 

[THUGSROOK]

 

[dbwillis]

Yeh, the one I DL'd is 18MB, its got the FPS and stuff in the upper right corner...it also had the 4 different dino's..reflection one, see through one, detailed with shadow one and the other..I "think" (hope!) its the right one
I could throw it on my site for DL, but its capped at 128k :0(
I cant confirm the version till I get home in 3.5hrs

 

[SupermanCK]

dbwillisLink?

 

[THUGSROOK]

post a linky from where you found it.
where did you find it?

i tried crytek and nvidia, did a search everywhere - nothing for days

......youre good

 

[THUGSROOK]

 

[Packy]

My favorite for monitoring is SPEEDFAN. Heck, even has S.M.A.R.T. monitoring. Enjoy

 

[DAPUNISHER]

bump till/if it gets a sticky

 

[THUGSROOK]

B U M P

keep up the great work!

 

[SupermanCK]

New updates...
X-Isle Demo Benchmark <---Thanks Thugs again
Microsoft DirectX 8.1b <---Search for DirectX and pick your O/S
Codecreatures Pro Benchmark <---Very impressive and extremely heavy on video card
SpeedFan Monitoring Program <---Thanks Packy
Q3Bench 2.0 linked
Nvidia Driver
ATi Video Driver
Matrox Video Driver

 

[THUGSROOK]

wow - pretty soon the main post is gonna need an INDEX and be cross referenced !

 

[SupermanCK]

More Updates
Most Mobo Bios Page...
yeah thugs...hee hee

 

[Athlon4all]

Should add VIA's website for the 4-in-1's drivers

 

[SupermanCK]

Originally posted by: Athlon4all
Should add VIA's website for the 4-in-1's drivers

fixed...sorry...it was there...under chipset/drivers

 

[Packy]

This list is doing great Nice work, Carter!

[edit] Not sure if you want to include 3rd party modified drivers, but Omega's driver sets are well known

 

[CrawlingEye]

Add Rage 3d for leaked/beta ATi drivers.

 

[jaybee]

Here's one for both benchmark and cpu stress: Comanche 4. I hit my cpu temp alarm for the first time yesterday due to C4.

jaybee