Stability and testing programs
1) Prime95Test 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 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.
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) A64 info A64 on the fly o/c!
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
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) PSU guide
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)
Hard disk/backup manufacturers
1) Quantum
2) Hitachi and more other products
3) Seagate and Maxtor
4) Sandisk
5) Western Digital
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
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
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
13) PC Power and Cooling
English spoken overclocking forums
1) ABIT-USA
2) ABXzone
3) AMD
4) Aoaforums
5) Bit-Tech
6) Bjorn3d.com
7) DYI-street
8) Hardforum
9) Legitreviews
10) MSI forum
11) nForce
12) OCAU
13) Ocforums
14) Overclockers UK
15) Overclockers online
16) Vr-Zone
17) XtremeSystems
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