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

[jyrgen]

Codecreatures Benchmark Pro is available at Guru3d.

 

[SupermanCK]

Thanks jrygen for the info...
Updated all links.

 

[Packy]

Sweet, you got a sticky

CrawlingEye, good call about Rage3d!

There's also Reactor Critical for leaked Nvidia & ATI drivers, plus all sorts of other pertinent news.

[edit] ALSO, for overclocking Nvidia cards, the "coolbits" nvidia overclocking enabler. This adds an overclocking tab to the Detonator driver settings panel. Should work from 95 up to XP (I have it running in XP and it works great).

 

[DAPUNISHER]

I request/suggest adding NBench 2.0 to the video benchmarking links

 

[MrPeepers]

I found this list, tons of progams, many which are listed in this thread.

Big-o-list

 

[Lizardman]

I have a question. When you guys use Sandra benches does anyone do anything special? I know some people in 3dmark go nuts and disable their background and kill all threads and stufff like that. I just bench it normaly with out doing any thing like that.

 

[Mikki]

I run Sandra without doing all that, I think the important thing when you're testing is to do it the same way every time. I guess if you're looking for the best scores possible, there's a lot of tweaking you could do...

 

[dannybin1742]

no epox bios?

 

[SupermanCK]

EPOX support page added!
thanks for the headsup dannybin1742

 

[Boonesmi]

as for quake3... you can always download the demo version, i belive it has the "timedemo" feature

 

[jyrgen]

You might want to add Vulpine GLMark to 3D Video benchmarks section. Downloadable at guru3d.

 

[CrazySaint]

I thought this thread was stickified...why is it on page 2?

 

[Mikki]

Originally posted by: Boonesmi
as for quake3... you can always download the demo version, i belive it has the "timedemo" feature

Can anyone verify that and how to use it?

 

[CrazySaint]

Originally posted by: Mikki

Originally posted by: Boonesmi
as for quake3... you can always download the demo version, i belive it has the "timedemo" feature

Can anyone verify that and how to use it?

I can do both

Start up the Quake demo (after a fresh reboot and all applications exited).
Press ~ to bring down the console.
Type s_initsound 0 and press enter to disable sound
Type sndrestart and press enter for the disabled sound to take effect
Type timedemo 1 and press enter to turn on the time demo
Type demo demo001 to run a time demo on the first of three demos (demo001, demo002, demo003).
When the demo ends, press ~ again to see your score.

 

[Mikki]

Thanks CrazySaint! You're a...a saint!

 

[CrazySaint]

Originally posted by: Mikki
Thanks CrazySaint! You're a...a saint!

lol You're most welcome

 

[Mikki]

Well done SupermanCK, keep up the great work!

 

[Housey]

Bump

 

[SP33Demon]

BUMP for an awesome thread!

 

[SP33Demon]

Guys,

Don't forget Powerstrip, you can use this utility to overclock all your Radeon video cards. Please add to the top of the list!!! I use it to OC my Radeon 8500DV

~Rob

 

[CrazySaint]

And don't forget RadeonTweaker which is a nice program whose purpose should be obvious Btw, how come this thread is no longer stickified?

 

[thrufu]

Hi

One great Program for configuring/overclocking Nvidia/Ati cards its Riva Tunner

Great Program that can convert some Geforces in Quadros with a special driver !!

 

[Mikki]

Where's the sticky?

 

[BeefcakeVA]

Yeah, did this just lose sticky?

 

[THUGSROOK]

the sticky fell down