Downloads for your Hardware (nVidia/Radeon)
Downloads For Your Hardware
GeForce Tweak Utility - This is the must-have tweaking package for all NVIDIA card owners. Tweak ALL your D3D and OpenGL settings, and even undocumented system settings!
NVMax - As of March 25th, NVMax has been discontinued. They will also stop hosting the file, so for die-hard fans of NVMax, you can download it from us right here. The source code has also been released (Visual Basic and C++).
Riva Tuner - A very powerful Nvidia tweak util, but not very user friendly at all... Change a ton of undocumented registry bits and fry your OS! w00p!
PowerStrip - Go absolutely insane tweaking your video card and monitor with this program. You can overclock just about any card with this. Highly recommended if you want to tweak your card beyond settings found in the drivers. Also, it's the best tool around for any refresh rate problems.
RadClock - We have all these NVIDIA tuners, how about one for Radeon users? RadClock installs an overclocking tab right into your Radeon drivers. Very handy! It is even capable of overclocking locked Radeon 9600's.
Rage3DTweak - Another Radeon tweak utility, this one with a lot more features. It too installs directly into your Radeon drivers, and features some nice backgrounds.
WCPUID - Displays all the CPU information you could ever need, including the Internal/External Clock, Multiplier, Cache info, CPU features, AGP info, etc....
4 Way Interleave Enabler - If you have a motherboard based on a VIA chipset, but the crappy BIOS doesn't allow you to enable 4-way memory interleaving, thus giving you a boost in performance, install this app to do it manually.
Motherboard Monitor - Use this handy app to monitor all the built-in thermal meters on your motherboard. Also reads the on-die thermal diode included on Intel and AMD CPU's!
Mouse Acceleration Fix - Mouse Acceleration was supposed to be a useful feature for Windows XP, you've tried playing almost any FPS game, you know how annoying it is (it essentially makes accurate mouse movement impossible). Turning this feature off in the Control Panel only works in the Windows GUI. In order to disable mouse acceleration in games like Counter Strike and Ghost Recon, you're going to need to download this reg file, and merge it into your registry. Do a backup first!
ATI Tool - Another tweaking tool for ATI based video cards.
Video Game Benchmarks
3DMark2000 - The first must-have.. Uses technology found in Direct3D games prior to say, mid 2001... It's a synthetic benchmark, so use the final score to scale the performance of your PC. Pretty much obsolete now.
3DMark 2001 SE - Like above, only it uses a lot of DirectX 8 features... GeForce 3 cards will be strong in this benchmark... Ideally you should use both this and 2000 to gauge your performance.
3DMark 03 - The newest, prettiest, and toughest version of 3dMark. This is a DirectX9 featured test, so best suited for DX9 capable cards. You'll still get a score out of your GeForce 4, but it ain't gonna be pretty.
3DMARK05 - The newest version of 3DMark
I found all this information from this website: http://www.hardcoreware.net/downloads.php
This isn't plagiarism because I sourced this and I would like to make it easier for you all to find your tweaking programs faster.
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