Must have programs and links for overclockers!

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The same thread at OCAU in Australia



Οverclocker's must have programs and links!
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Stability and testing programs
1) Prime95 Test your RAM and CPU.
2) Memtest86 - Floppy version and ISO Test your RAM.
3) Toast Basically a burn-in program.
4) Super Pi Calculate π=3.14159265.....
5) PiFast Calculate π too.
6) Hot CPU Tester Pro Test CPU+RAM+chipset and burn-in CPU+RAM.
7) Stress Prime Variation on Prime95.
8) OCCT Test your CPU.
9) S&M Test RAM+CPU+PSU.
10) Super Pi measures times down to the millisecond
11) Stress CPU and thread is here
12) 3DMark, PCMark series
13) MemTest for Windows Allows you to run Memtest in Windows.
14) Orthos Stress Prime2004 A better version of SP2004.
15) Prime95 for quad cores in French language




Benchmarking programs
1) 3D Mark 2001 SE
2) 3D Mark 2003
3) Sysoft Sandra
4) PC Mark series
5) Metabench
6) ATTO Hard disk benchmark.
7) HDTach 270 Hard disk benchmark.
8) Aquamark
9) FRAPS
10) WinRAR Although it is compression utility anyway it is useful for benchmarking.
11) Everest home edition
12) Sciencemark
13) wPrime





System tools/Monitoring/Information
1) Motherboard Monitor Shows temperatures, voltages.
2) SpeedFan Monitor and change fan speeds and creates a graph showing the fluctuations.
3) ClockGen On the fly oc! Choose the suitable for your mainboard!
4) 8rdaVcore On the fly oc!
5) CpuZ Shows timings, CPU speed/core/multiplier/stepping.
6) WcpuID Similar to CPUz.
7) Crystal CpuID Similar to CPUz and on the fly o/c!
8) GCpuID AMD PR-rating.
9) OPN 462 PR-rating and stepping info.
10) Throttle Watch Shows % CPU throttling.
11) HDD temperature
12) RightMark CPU clock utility Shows % CPU throttling.
13) A64 Tweaker v0.31 and here v0.6 Allows you to change memory timings in Windows for A64s.
14) SysTool for Windows Windows tweaking, monitor nVidia/ATI o/c etc...
15) Central Brain Identifier It is also similar to CPU-Z but it allows you to change memory timings in Windows.
16) SIW Monitor program also.
17) PC Wizard One more monitor program.
18) WebTemp Create statistics for temperatures.
19) Core Temp Monitor your CPU temperatures.

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VGA overclocking
1) RadLinker
2) Rage3D
3) ATItool
4) Riva Tuner
5) Centrino Hardware Control
6) Forceware Coolbits 2.0 (nVidia, Registry)
7) ATI Tray Tools




Optimization tools
1) MemTurbo Defrag your RAM!
2) MemMonster+WinBoost Defrag your RAM, tweak Windows!
3) X-Setup and other useful tools
4) CPU Idle Cool your CPU (but I did not see difference).



Other links
1) Many tools for benchmarking/stability etc
2) Benchmarking.Ru Software page.
3) Majorgeeks Software page.
4) Tucows site Software page (choose the nearest mirror).
5) Download.com Software page (choose the nearest mirror).
6) Gromacs
7) Rage3d thread
8) Artic Silver web page (thermal paste)


Other useful programs for o/cers+anyone!
1) Windows Washer + Spy Sweeper Clean your hard disk from unnecessary files/anti-spyware tool.
2) Tweak Power Pack Tweak Windows, registry and hard disk cleaner.
3) Advanced System Optimizer Like Tweak Power Pack.
4) Diskeeper Faster defragmentation.
5) Hard disk life



Must read threads and links!
1) Discussion for CPU burn-in at AMD forums
2) Athlon64 and CPU quick reference
3) Memory o/c guide!
4) Overclocking links and guides at AMD forums
5) AMD o/c guide at DYI forums
6) MSDN first link second link Two links very helpful for things computing in Windows!
7) PSU calculator
8) Beginners Guide to Intel Overclocking.
9) Many o/c links at Ocforums
10) Gogar's A64 optimizer


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Last update of first part: 21/5/2007

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PSU manufacturers
1) Antec
2) Chieftec
3) Enermax
4) Fortron
5) Hiper
6) LC Power
7) OCZ
8) Q-Tec
9) Seasonic
10) Tagan





Mainboard manufacturers
1) ABIT
2) Albatron
3) Aopen
4) ASRock
5) ASUS
6) Biostar
7) Chaintech
8) DFI
9) Epox
10) FIC
11) Gigabyte
12) Iwill
13) Leadtec
14) MSI
15) QDI
16) Soyo
17) Supermicro
18) Tyan

Note that many of above manufacturers produce and graphics cards (e.g. ASUS, Gigabyte etc)

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Hard disk/backup manufacturers
1) Quantum
2) Hitachi and more other products
3) Sandisk
4) Seagate and Maxtor
5) Western Digital

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Video cards/chipset manufacturers
1) ATI
2) nVidia
3) Matrox
4) PowerVR
5) S3
6) XGI




RAM manufacturers
1) A-DATA
2) Apacer
3) Cellshock
4) Corsair
5) Crucial
6) Elixir
7) Geil
8) G.Skill
9) Kingston
10) Mushkin
11) Patriot
12) OCZ
13) Supertalent
14) TwinMOS

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General manufacturers
1) AMD
2) Apple
3) Fujitsu
4) IBM
5) Hewlett Packard
5) Intel
6) LG
7) Philips
8) Samsung
9) Toshiba Choose the mirror near to you!
10) Transmeta
11) VIA

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Cooling manufacturers
1) Akasa
2) Arctic cooling
3) Assetek
4) CoolerMaster
5) Danger Den available for Australia from Chilled PC click here
6) Thermalright
7) Thermaltake
8) Vantec
9) Vapochill
10) Zalman
11) Nexus Technology
12) Evercool


English spoken overclocking forums
1) ABIT-USA
2) ABXzone
3) AMD
4) Aoaforums
5) Bit-Tech
6) Bjorn3d
7) DYI-street
8) Extremeoverclocking
9) Hardforum
10) i4memory
11) Legitreviews
12) MSI forum
13) OCAU
14) Ocforums
15) Overclockers UK
16) Overclockers online
17) TechPowerUp!
18) Vr-Zone
19) XtremeSystems



Last update of second part: 28/6/2007