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[Dr_Frankenstein]

Dr_Frankensteins Essential Overclocking and Benchmark Software Guide
Updated 03/02/07 @ 10.45 GMT
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Benchmarking

3DMark 2001 - Here $
3DMark 2003 - Here $
3DMark 2005 - Here $
3DMark 2006 - Here $
PCMark 2005 - Here $
Aquamark 3 - Here
SiSoft Sandra - Here $
Super PI - Here
FRAPS - Here $

Realworld Game Benchmarks

Battlefield 2 - Here
Half-Life 2 - Here
Company Of Heroes - Here
NFSMW - Here
NFSC - Here
Prey Demo - Here
F.E.A.R Demo - Here

Overclocking Graphics Cards

Rivatuner - Here
ATI Tool - Here
Coolbits 2.0 - Here
Powerstrip - Here $

Overclocking CPU's

Clockgen - Here
A64MemFreq11 - Here

System Monitoring/System Info

CPU-Z - Here
GPU-Z - Here
Speedfan - Here
MBM - Here
A64 TCaseMax - Here
Central Brain ID - Here (AMD Only)
Everest - Here $
ITE SmartGuardian - Here (For DFI)
Core Temp - Here (Intel Core2Duo)
Intel Thermal Analysis Tool - Here (Intel Core2Duo)

Memory Tweaking/Testing

Memtest86 - Here
Memtest86+ - Here
A64Tweaker - Here

Stress Testing

Prime95 - Here
SP2004 - Here
Orthos - Here (Dual Core SP2004)
OCCT - Here
RTHDRIBL - Here
FurRenderingBenchmark (For Gfx) Here

Drivers

Creative YouP-Pax Drivers - Here Choose the server from list
Creative Kx - Here
Nvidia - Here
Omega drivers - Here
ATI/AMD - Here

Hard Drive Tools

HD Tune - Here
HdTach - Here

Hacks/Misc Software
Kellys Korner - Here (Reg Fixes If You Break Something)
WSGFWiki - Here (Widescreen Gaming Hacks)

[sdy284]

how could you not put in a link for omega drivers?
http://www.omegadrivers.net/

[hardnrg]

A64Tweaker doesn't overclock your cpu, it changes memory timings

should RTHDRIBL be under OCing Graphics Cards as an artifact tester rather than a benchmark? does RTHDRIBL have a benchmark?

you should link to Memtest86+ as well: http://www.memtest.org/

memtest86+ is based on memtest86 but doesn't require a linux boot cd/floppy to run... you can run it in pure dos on a usb drive for example, along with all your bios flash utilities (that's what i do anyway)

so put Memtest86 (linux boot cd/floppy) and Memtest86+ (advanced, pure dos)

memtest86+ is way more up to date than memtest86 and has more cpu/ram support, and you can do stuff like change memory timings on the fly!

[caffeinejunkie]

Hmm lets see:

SP2004 - Another version of prime95
Orthos - DualCore version of sp2004
ITE SmartGuardian - DFI temp monitoring
A64MemFreq11 - MEM/FSB Calculator
OCCT - stress tester

[Silverfox]

well, if frankenstein is willing to keep on top of this with a bit of help from a mod, could this be a sticky? or something?

if everyone pitches in like with jammins PSU list before it was erased, we could be looking at a decent but brief reference for people looking

[Dr_Frankenstein]

Thats the plan

[hardnrg]

kX drivers (3rd party SoundBlaster Live/Audigy drivers for music production)
http://kxproject.lugosoft.com/index.php?skip=1

[cchalogamer]

Realworld Game Benchmarks

Battlefield 2 - Here

BF2 Benchmark link is broken.

CODE

http://ttp://downloads.guru3d.com/download.php?det=1104

Just a little opps, the fix (incase you dont see it bc it's so simple):

CODE

http://downloads.guru3d.com/download.php?det=1104

[sdy284]

kX drivers (3rd party SoundBlaster Live/Audigy drivers for music production)
http://kxproject.lugosoft.com/index.php?skip=1

how does that relate to overclocking?

[hardnrg]

ok... this is a bit of a leap, but you can tweak the ASIO latency from crap to near-zero... so it's more of a timing tweak than overclocking as such...

the kX drivers *may* offer higher system performance as there isn't any bloatware like the standard creative drivers (i've never bothered to test this to prove/disprove it but it's something that might have an effect)

[Celcius]

@Doom3 in the first post: Prey also uses the doom3 engine, but I find it much better at detecting unstable cpu's.
It's also more stessful on videocards.

link to the demo: http://www.gamershell.com/download_14372.shtml

[airman]

STICKY!!