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Old 10-30-2005, 02:14 PM   #1
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Overclocking, benching & monitoring tools

Here are some basic utilities to help you overclock or monitor your graphics card.

Overclocking utilities

RivaTuner

ATI Tool

ForceWare Coolbits

PowerStrip

Rage3D Tweak

RadLinker & Radclocker

General utilities

NVTray (NVIDIA Tray Tools)

ATI Tray Tools

NvTempLogger - program for monitoring GPU temp

PCI Latency Tool - tool for changing PCI latency. Can help prevent game stutter.

Driver Cleaner - helps remove parts of drivers that are left after uninstalling the old drivers

Detonator R.I.P. - tool for removing remains of NVIDIA display driver after you've already run the uninstall program.

Benchmarking programs

3DMark05

3DMark03

3DMark2001 SE

AquaMark 3

CINEBENCH

AMD N-Bench

PowerBench

FRAPS - monitors frame rates in DirectX & Open GL games

Bench 'em All - utility to launch popular 3D games and 3D programs in a benchmarking mode and to get their performance as results

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Old 10-30-2005, 02:45 PM   #2
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Thanks for all the links should be a sticky....
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It is a sticky. I'll add more links later.
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Old 10-31-2005, 02:29 AM   #4
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Here's a special add. Overclocking tool for those of you with ATI R5xx cards.

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For some reason Powerstip won't go beyond 1197MHz for the memory..
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Old 01-20-2006, 05:48 PM   #6
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nice set of links keep it up
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Old 02-18-2006, 04:09 AM   #7
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List needs to be updated, 3DMark06 should be added.
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