BenchMark
| CliBench Mk III SMP clibench-0.7.15.zip | Freeware Size: 235KB Date: 2001-10-22 Ver.0.7.15 OS: w32i386 | CliBench is a great tool if you're going to build a computer of your own or if you'd like to push your existing system to the max. It also shows you if the newest Pentium IV wxyz MHz monster is worth the money. By comparing your existing system with the newer one, you'll see how much faster the new one would be. But believe me, if you're not depending on raw CPU power or you not aiming to have the fastest system round the block, you don't have to worry about this until the fastest systems are going to be 4x as fast as yours. You'll never feel a difference of 10 %! But there are people spending almost twice as much for getting these 10%... |
| 3DMark2001SE website | Shareware Size: 39.8MB ver.330 date: n/a author: n/a | The Cutting Edge, 3DMark2001 is the latest installment in the popular 3DMark series. ; |
| HDtach htach261.exe | Hard drive, cd, zip benchmark. Improved burst test with Windows 95/98, fixed a bug resulting in too-high write test results. The demo version supports random access, sequential read and burst testing. system: Windows 95/98 webpage: http://www.tcdlabs.com/ | |
Software Cooling
| CpuIdle cpuidle56.exe | Shareware Size: 340kb Ver: 5.9 OS: 95-ME | CpuIdle lowers the CPU temperature. This enhances CPU life (a decrease by 10°C doubles the life span) and cuts power consumption. Unlike normal power management CpuIdle is active all the time and works even when you're actively using your computer! |
| CpuIdle Pro cpuidlepro59.exe | Shareware Size: 360kb Ver: 5.9 OS: NT-XP | After extensive beta testing CpuIdle available as Pro version from WinNT to WinXP. CpuIdle Pro supports both single and multi-processor systems. Although Microsoft claims that these systems take care of power management themselves, measurements show that CpuIdle Pro can still achive a considerable decrease of temperature and power consumption |
| CPUCool cpucool9.zip | Shareware $13.00 Size: 2.5MB Ver: 7.1.5 | And more....... |
| Rain20 Rain20.zip | Freeware Size: 122KB Ver: 2.0 Date: N/A | Especially designed for overclockers (or for severe heat conditions), Rain is the latest CPU cooler from Leading Wintech. What makes it different from other CPU coolers (such as Waterfall and CPUIdle) is the fact that it has a different concept: "Extreme Cooling!" With Rain, you'll get the best cooling under Windows 98 nowdays! Rain was especially designed to give you the biggest temperature decrease among all CPU coolers. |
| Rain Rain.exe | Freeware Size: 179KB Ver.1.0 Date: n/a Author: Zhu Yi Hong(Tim) | Rain is a CPU cooler program. Originally designed as tool for the serious overclocker, this is a cooler program with no frills or extras. It doesn't need them. It issues the HLT command and the processor remains cooler because of it. Plain and simple. system: Windows 95/98 webpage: yihong.com |
| Waterfall waterfall.exe | Freeware Size: 182KB Ver.1.23 Date: n/a Author: Zhu Yi Hong(Tim) | Waterfall is a utility which protects your PC and cools down your processor (by running HLT command when CPU is idle). It was designed for PC users who want a cooler and safer Windows environment, as well as for laptop users who need to save power so that the battery will have a longer life. system: Windows 95/98 webpage: yihong.com |
| Waterfall Pro waterpro.exe | Shareware Size: 1.2MB Ver.2.1 Date: n/a Author: Zhu Yi Hong(Tim) | Waterfall Pro is a very powerful utility which protects your PC and cools down your processor. It is designed to PC users who want a cooler and safer Windows environment, as well as to laptop users who need to save power so that the battery will have a longer life. system: Windows 95/98 webpage: yihong.com |
CPU/Motherboard Overclocking
| CPUboost cpu_boost.exe | Freeware Size: 146KB Ver: 1.06 | Work much the same was as SoftFSB, change frequency base clock without having to restart the PC. Get plug-ins from the following site |
| SoftFSB sfsb17g1.exe | Freeware Size: 113KB Version 1.7-g1 (BETA) date: 2000/02/12 author: H. Oda | Windows utility to change the base clock ( FSB / Front Side Bus ) frequency without having to restart the machine. Any FSB changes are instantaneous. system: Windows 95/98/NT4/2000 webpage: h-oda.com |
| WCPUL2 wl2dd160.exe | Freeware Size: 46KB Ver.1.6 date: 4/25/99 author: H. Oda | Device driver that rewrites L2 cache Latency of Intel Pentium II, Pentium III, Pentium II Xeon, Celeron w/L2 system: Windows 95/98/NT4/2000 webpage: h-oda.com |
| WCPUA2 wa2g100.exe | Freeware Size: 31KB Ver: Version 1.0 Date: 2000/01/23 | WCPUA2 is the program that Athlon L2 Speed control by software for Win32/GUI. |
Graphics Overclocking
| PowerStrip pstrip.exe | Shareware Ver: 2.67 Size: 646K OS: 95/98/NT | Direct Hardware Support Programmable refresh rates to 200Hz Screen size and position controls Color calibration support with gamma hotkeys Forced vertical/horizontal sync polarity Transparent support for auxiliary Direct3D devices OS-independent DDC support Direct power management control Complete PCI and AGP device diagnostics Run-time AGP configuration Full support for Windows NT 4.0 and Windows 2000 now |
| Creative Tweaker, 2.04 (For Creative drivers only) CreativeTweaker204.zip | Freeware Size: 1.9MB Rev: 2.04 Date: 10/3/2000 Windows 98/SE ONLY | Changes memory and core clock speeds for Creative drivers on GeForce based cards (DDR & SDR) and TNT 2 Ultra (although support for TNT 2 Ultra it's still in BETA stage).. The program is very easy to use.Set the clocks to the desired speeds and press Ok.That's it! Creative Tweaker gives you the capability to program your own presets so that you'll be able to change clock speeds with a single click |
| TNTClk tntclock.zip | Freeware Size: 49KB Ver.1.2 Date: n/a Author: Chris Groenveld | This program allows you to modify the clock settings of any RIVA TNT based board (should also work with TNT2.) You can adjust the core and memory clock WITHOUT having to reboot your system. system: Windows 95/98 Webpage: N/A |
| Fast card fc114.zip | Freeware Size: 211KB v1.1.4 Date: June 2, 1999 | Fast Card Features NVidia Riva TNT support NVidia Riva TNT2 support *NEW* 3Dfx Voodoo/Voodoo2/Banshee/Voodoo3 support Matrox G100/200 support S3 Savage3D support ATi Rage 128 support Full system tray support Start minimised Start with Windows Display Resolution switching Exit & Reboot Windows CPU Speed Calculation (Intel & AMD CPU's) DirectX setting manipulation Registry watcher |
Harddrive Utilities
| Maxtor66to100 maxtor66to100.exe Size: 95KB Freeware | Changing the UDMA/66 Mode on DiamondMax 60 and DiamondMax VL 30 hard drives to UDMA/100 Warning: This is an Advanced Utility and its use is recommended for Advanced Users only PROCEDURE and more info goto below link. |
| EZDrive 9 ezdrive9.exe size: 638KB freeware ver.n/a date: n/a author: n/a | Handy utility from Western Digital to partition, format and copy boot sector and/or whole partition from one drive to another. Note: this utility checks to see if at least one of the drives is made by Western Digital. system: Windows 95/98/NT |
| IBMATA66 ibmata66.zip size: 149KB freeware ver.1.30 date: n/a author: n/a | The Deskstar 22GXP, 25GP, 34GXP, and 37GP and Travelstar 25GS, 18GT, and 12GN hard disk drives support Ultra ATA/66 (UDMA mode 4), which offers a transfer rate of 66.6MB per second. Though most systems are compatible with Ultra ATA/66 drives, certain combinations of BIOSs, motherboards, and chipsets were not designed to recognize this transfer protocol. If your system does not operate properly with these drives, contact your system manufacturer to find out if they offer a BIOS upgrade that provides Ultra ATA/66 support. If a new BIOS is not available, the IBMATA66 utility can be used to disable Ultra ATA/66 support on the disk drive. When Ultra ATA/66 support is disabled, the disk drive operates in Ultra ATA/33 mode which makes the drive compatible with Ultra ATA/33 capable controllers. The IBMATA66 utility also allows you to restore or enable Ultra ATA/66 support on the disk drive if a new BIOS is installed at a later date. system: Windows 95/98 |
| IBM Disk Manager ibm-dm.exe size: 732KB freeware ver.9.52 date: n/a author: n/a | Disk Manager is used for IBM IDE hard disk drives greater than 540 MB with a BIOS that has a limitation such as 528 MB, 2.1GB, 4.2GB, and 8.4GB. It is a hard drive installation program that will automatically identify, partition and format your hard disk drive. This software is for IBM drives only and features easy-to-use functionality, Windows 95/98 OSR2-FAT 32 support, on-line help, and jumper database Limitations: Centos adapters are not supported. Check Award BIOS 4.5x limitation for drives larger than 33.8 GB. system: Windows 95/98 |
| Wdata66 dlg_66.exe Size: 65KB Ver: NA | The Ultra ATA/66 Management Utility Ultra ATA/66 is the newest EIDE hard drive interface that allows host computers to send and receive data at 66.6 MB/s. Some BIOS versions have potential issues with Ultra ATA/66 that can lead to data corruption. Western Digital hard drives with Ultra ATA/66 capabilities are now shipped with this feature enabled. The Ultra ATA/66 Management utility is a hard drive utility designed to enable or disable the Ultra/66 capability on Western Digital hard drives that support Ultra ATA/66. |
| Quantum Software and Utilities | UltraDMA 33/66 Utility for Fireball This area of the Quantum Website contains software and utilities. http://www.quantum.com/support/csr/software/csr_software.htm |
System Monitor
| WCPUID wcpu300.exe | Freeware size: 178KB ver: 3.0 | WCPUID is the program that displays the clock frequency of your personal computer. This version is more accurate and supports MultiProcessor(Dual CPU) environment by improving the clock measuring core. Supports most of the CPU's. system: all win webpage: http://www.h-oda.com |
| Motherboard Monitor MBM5210.EXE | Freeware Size: 1.7MB Ver: 5.2.1.0 OS: all win Author: Alex van Kaam | This program will try to access one or more of the following chips: LM75, LM78, LM78-j, LM79, LM80, WinBond W83781D, WinBond W83782D, WinBond W83783S, WinBond W83627HF, Asus AS99127F, GL518SM, GL520SM, ADM9240, ADM1021, ADM1020, MAX1016, MAX1016a, FMS2701, VIA686A, THMC10 and THMC50 on your motherboard and will try to provide you with information about your motherboard's temperature, voltages, fan speeds and cpu temperature. |
| TestCPU testcpue.zip | Freeware Size: 570KB Ver: Version 0.96 (21.2.2000) Windows 95/98/NT/2000 | Detects the type and frequency of whatever CPU you're using. It also runs memory benchmarks and a set of standard CPU/FPU benchmarks. TestCPU gives a very detailed description of your CPU. There's over 125 processor results that you could also download to the TestCPU database. Most importantly it already supports Coppermine technology. |
| Hardware Monitor Lite hmonitor.zip | Shareware size: 502KB ver: Ver:3.2.0.2 date: 2/26/00 author: Alexander Berezkin | This program monitors and displays hardware parameters collected by the several sensor chips, installed on certain motherboards. Program can monitor voltages, temperatures of CPU and motherboard and cooler fans RPMs. system: Windows 95/98/NT webpage: hmonitor.hypermart.net |
| Hardware Monitor Pro hmonpro.zip | Shareware size: 553KB ver: Ver:3.2.0.2 date: 2/26/00 author: Alexander Berezkin | A "complete overclocking solution" - it has unique NT-compatible cooling features together with remote monitoring possibilities, in addition to usual cooling for Win95 (similar to CPUIdle & Rain & Waterfall). system: Windows 95/98/NT webpage: hmonitor.hypermart.net |
| WinSystem WinSystem.exe | Freeware size: 344KB ver.3.4.7 date: n/a author: n/a | System monitor, shows CPU and motherboard temperature, hard drive activity, memory utilization note: right click to go to Options system: Windows 95/98 webpage: multimania.com/newtech |
System Stability Test
| BurnInTest V2.0 bit_v20.zip | Shareware Ver: 2.0 Size: 851KB | A software utility that allows all the major sub-systems of a computer to be simultaneously tested for reliability and stability. |
| Stability Test stabilitytest.exe | Freeware Ver.5.2 Size: 373KB | This program calculates complex mathematical calculations, using huge numbers. In addition to those dull equations and functions, CPU Stability Test also solves some famous mathematical problems or puzzles. system: Windows 95/98 webpage: saunalahti.fi/jv16 |
| HeavyLoad V1.0 hload.zip | Freeware Ver: 1.0 Size: 380 kb Date: N/A | Heavyload simulates heavy activity on a PC, it allows you to test if a workstation or server PC is working stable under heavy load. It stresses processor, memory and hard disks, operating system, etc. |
| Prime95 prime95.zip | Freeware ver.19.1 size: 378KB date: 11/19/99 author: George Woltman | This program is used to find Mersenne Prime numbers. See http://www.utm.edu/research/primes/mersenne.shtml for a good description of Mersenne primes. Mersenne numbers can be proved composite (not prime) by either finding a factor or by running a Lucas-Lehmer primality test. This utility has nothing to do with O/C, but is a good tool for running your CPU though intensive computations to determine your system's stability. system: Windows 95/98/NT webpage: mersenne.org/prime.htm |