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Message 18617 - Posted: 10 Sep 2010 | 18:25:52 UTC
Last modified: 10 Sep 2010 | 19:10:59 UTC

If you know of any good GPU and CPU tools post them here, with links please.

EVGA Precision Version 2.0.0 has been released. Note you need to register to download it.

Features/improvements with this release:

- Added software automatic fan control mode allowing end users to define custom temperature to fan speeed mapping curve
- Added floating tooltips based help system for advanced EVGA Precision settings window
- Now it is possible to pause hardware monitoring module via "Pause" command in the context menu of hardware monitoring window
- Performance profiler status information is no longer power user oriented, now it is possible to toggle the performance profiler status visibility directly via "Show status" command in the context menu of hardware monitoring window
- Now it is possible to clear hardware monitoring history via "Clear history" command in the context menu of hardware monitoring window
- Now it is possible to get directly into hardware monitoring graph properties by clicking a tray icon associated with it or via "Properties" command in the context menu of hardware monitoring window
- Added multilanguage system and sample Russian localization pack
- Added SDK folder containing reference guide documentation for third party EVGA Precision skin and localization creators
- Now core clock controls are displayed on GeForce 400 series if built-in skins are in use. Please take a note that it is still impossible to adjust core and shader clocks independenty on these cards due to GPU architecture limitations
- Now it is posssible to use both core and shader clock as the primary clock when adjusting the clocks in linked mode
- Removed some outdated options from advanced EVGA Precision settings window
- Framerate monitoring graph limits have been changed to [0,100] FPS
- Fan tachometer monitoring graph limits have been changed to [0,5000] RPM
- Fixed videomemory usage monitoring for non-primary NVIDIA graphics cards
- Added ability to assign a hotkey for toggling the On-Screen Display Server blocking. This hotkey is aimed to provide a simple way for diagnosing the server related compatibility issues
- Now EVGA Precision uses previously undocumented power user oriented DirectInput based hotkey handler. New hotkey handling mechanism drastically reduces hotkey response time in applications heavily loading CPU. Please take a note that new sophisticated hotkeys handling can cause some system security applications (e.g. KIS proactive defense module) to warn you about possible keylogging threat
- Now screen capture events are also indicated by notification messages in the hardware monitoring window

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Message 22158 - Posted: 24 Sep 2011 | 17:03:03 UTC - in response to Message 18617.

I'm using the following tools:
for GPU status monitoring, and overclocking: MSI Afterburner 2.2 Beta 6
for CPU temperature monitoring: CoreTemp 1.0RC2 32bit 64bit
CPU overclocking is done through the corresponding BIOS settings, furthermore ASUS has a Windows tool called 'TurboV EVO' for overclocking and overvolting, but it has limited capabilities, because the various multiplier settings (CPU, UnCore, QPI, RAM) are needing a power off-on cycle. So basically this tool can change only the BCLK, and the voltages (and the ram's reference voltages), even so it's very useful for fine-tuning.
for CPU, RAM, QPI speed and voltage (CPU only) monitoring: CPU-Z 1.58
for all round system monitoring: HWmon 1.18
for task priority change: eFMer Priority 1.2

If anyone knows a reliable article about overclocking Core i7-9xx and Core i7-8xx processors, please share it here.

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Message 22252 - Posted: 10 Oct 2011 | 23:38:29 UTC
Last modified: 10 Oct 2011 | 23:41:39 UTC

I use Process Lasso, a free utility from Bitsum Technologies (bitsum.com), to automatically set process affinity and priority for all of my BOINC tasks. I needed to do this to prevent World Community Grid CPU tasks from keeping 2 GPUGRID tasks from running at their maximum speed. GPU-Z and Nvidia Monitor both showed cyclical GPU utilization before setting affinities and priorities, but now both GPUs run at their full capacity (85% to 95% GPU load, typical). Also I can now run 4 WCG tasks on a 4-core single-threaded CPU at the same time, rather than 3 before using Process Lasso. If you are interested in more details, you can see the WCG BOINC Agent Support Forum thread at http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/forums/wcg/viewthread_thread,31792, or search the forums for 'How can I limit WCG to 2 tasks on a 4 core processor?'.
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Message 22253 - Posted: 11 Oct 2011 | 20:44:03 UTC

MSI Afterburner 2.2 Beta 8 is released earlier.

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