Must Have Programs and Links for Overclockers!

[MrSeanKon]

Οverclocker's must have programs and links!
I created this thread here just to make a start point for our hobby!



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
16) Intel Burn Test and other utilities




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 Benchmarking and monitoring tool also!
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 1.0.5.3 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.
20) Intel TAT A thermal analysis software for Intel CPUs.
21) HWMonitor Other one monitor program by CPUz author.

[MrSeanKon]

VGA overclocking/Video card tools
1) RadLinker
2) Rage3D
3) ATItool
4) Riva Tuner
5) Centrino Hardware Control
6) Forceware Coolbits 2.0 (nVidia, Registry)
7) ATI Tray Tools
8) GPUz
9) ATI BIOS flashing tools
10) RaBiT Util Files
11) EVGA Precision
12) ΜSI Afterburner




Optimization tools
1) MemTurbo Defrag your RAM!
2) MemMonster+WinBoost and other tools 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
6) LSoft Technologies



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


Please report any broken links

Last update of first part: 16/10/2012

[MrSeanKon]

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)

Click here for more names (not links)

[MrSeanKon]

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

[MrSeanKon]

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

[MrSeanKon]

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

[MrSeanKon]

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.com
7) DYI-street
8) Extremeoverclocking
9) Hardforum
10) i4memory
11) Legitreviews
12) MSI forum
13) nForce
14) OCAU
15) Ocforums
16) Overclockers UK
17) Overclockers online
18) Vr-Zone
19) XtremeSystems


Last update of second part: 28/6/2007

[DanTheBanjoman]

Some additions:

xgi, intel and powervr to videocards (powervr has athena planned, if they do they deserve to be listed)
iwill and supermicro to mobo
fujitsu and toshiba to harddrives and perhaps list quantum as part of seagate/maxtor. I still use a Quantum drive which won't be replaced for ages

[MrSeanKon]

Originally Posted by DanTheBanjoman

intel to videocards

I knew that but Intel is a general manufacturer it produces (mainly) CPUs and chipsets.
Also produces mainboards etc.....
On the other hand OCZ produces PSUs but it is listen in RAM manufacturer's section.

Originally Posted by DanTheBanjoman

xgi and powervr to videocards iwill and supermicro to mobo

OK thanks I will edit my posts later.
You may post the links; I save time!

Originally Posted by DanTheBanjoman

fujitsu and toshiba

Similarly both companies produces hard disks, notebooks etc...
That's why Toshiba added there.

[giorgos th.]

way to go Seankon.
very usefull list.

[DanTheBanjoman]

Ah, I see the link now, He's that buddy you mentioned. (checked his host, a .gr ) That OCbible thing already sounded familiar to me.

[MrSeanKon]

Originally Posted by DanTheBanjoman

That OCbible thing already sounded familiar to me.

It can be translated in Dutch if you want!
It supports 30 different languages!
Anyway the links you posted above added.
Please the next posters check and report any broken links!
The necessary starting points for Guidemania and OcBible added for further reading.

[giorgos th.]

Originally Posted by DanTheBanjoman

Ah, I see the link now, He's that buddy you mentioned. (checked his host, a .gr ) That OCbible thing already sounded familiar to me.

you`re correct Dan..

[DanTheBanjoman]

Originally Posted by MrSeanKon

It can be translated in Dutch if you want! It supports 30 different languages!
Anyway the links you posted above added.
Please the next posters check and report any broken links!

I'll check the program out when I get home (I never downloaded it, just looked at the site because Giorgos linked me) Perhaps I'll be lifeless and translate
Most likely not these days though, just received my new RAM, hopefully my damn system works this evening so I'll be busy playing.

[MrSeanKon]

Originally Posted by DanTheBanjoman

I'll check the program out when I get home.

Ok you have to try please read carefully the instructions it needs that's why I posted above the supported threads.
Of course here is not a supported thread for both programs if you wish support then we will see...

Originally Posted by DanTheBanjoman

Perhaps I'll be lifeless and translate

The process is similar to jv16 Power Tools a program for registry.
It is not difficult.

Originally Posted by giorgos th.

you`re correct Dan..

LOL I am remembering _dangtx_ (PcPer user) who I called him Dan!

[infrared]

Stickied! Nice thread MrSeanKon.

[Kasparz]

There is Ati Tool and Ati tray tools. Two different overclocking tools.

[ryboto]

I think your description of crystal cpuid should be changed, it's more than just cpuz, it can overclock, and you can even use it as a custom Cool n Quiet. I use it with an overclock so that I can take the advantages of the cool n quiet but still have the oc when I need it. Rightmark also has this function, only it can have more than just 3 power states.

[cdawall]

very nice way to go

[MrSeanKon]

Originally Posted by infrared

Stickied! Nice thread MrSeanKon.

Thank you
I try the best I can do.

Originally Posted by Kasparz

There is Ati Tool and Ati tray tools. Two different overclocking tools.

OK the link for the second program added.

Originally Posted by ryboto

I think your description of crystal cpuid should be changed

OK done

Originally Posted by cdawall

very nice way to go

Happy downloading!

[_33]

Hello ther. I looked everywhere on that speedfan and can't see any DFI Lanparty addons to the software, which renders it useless to me ATM. The software doesn't detect my mobo.

[DaMulta]

Thank you Sir.

[Alec§taar]

2 of my 'personal favorites', & I could spends years there looking around:

MSDN:

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/default.aspx

&/or

Ms-TechNet:

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/default.aspx



* They're about ALL a body needs for "things technical on Win32 platforms &/or wares"...

APK

[MrSeanKon]

Originally Posted by DaMulta

Thank you Sir.

Regards mate!

Originally Posted by _33

I looked everywhere on that speedfan and can't see any DFI Lanparty addons to the software

I do not have this mainboard.
Therefore you have to seek at DFI forum here for more support sorry I am not the creator of Speedfan!

Originally Posted by Alec§taar

They're about ALL a body needs for "things technical on Win32 platforms &/or wares"...

Well these links (OK are useful) but they are not for o/c stuff.
Anyway I added them in a different section.

[pt]

LC POWER (mainly psu manufacturer) - http://www.lc-power.com/
A-Data (ram manufacturer) - http://www.adata.com.tw/adata_en/

this thread will be very usefull as soon as it is finished