Hey guys,

I'm in the que to get my 8790 as well. I've noticed some of you are extremely proficient in running a plethora of tests with notebooks to verify benchmarks and test components. I was wondering if we could get one page or thread together where everyone could navigate to find all pertainent links for downloading utilities to test benchmarks, run utilities, download demo's, test fps, etc. I know I'll probably get flamed for being lazy, but I think having everything in one thread would help many of us techno newbs out big time. It also be nice if your could give a brief description of the link/utility you're providing so everyone knows exactly what the progs designed to accomplish. Maybe if the thread gives enough info, the moderator could sticky it.

Thanks.

smithmal

Okay, here's what I've found so far:

Utilities:

Everest Home Edition
available at: http://www.lavalys.com/index.php?page=product&view=1

Description:

EVEREST Home Edition is a freeware1 system information, system diagnostics and benchmarking solution for home PC users, based on the award-winning EVEREST Technology. It offers the world's most accurate system information and diagnostics capabilities, including online features, memory benchmarks, hardware monitoring, and low-level hardware information.

The MobileMeter
available at:
http://dssc3031.ece.cmu.edu/~tamaru/...erreadme-e.htm (Thanks Euclid)

Description:

MobileMeter is a system monitoring utility designed for laptop PCs running under the Windows environment. It can show the following information.

CPU clock
CPU temperature
Battery charge/discharge rate
HDD temperature
Desktop PCs are usually designed to allow the OS to directly read the sensor values, but this is not true in most laptop PCs. Mobilemeter may be able to read the temperature even in such laptop PCs.

Motherboard Monitor
available at: http://www.pcextreme.net/downloads.php

Description:
Motherboard Monitor is an extremely useful utility that allows you to monitor your CPU speed, temps, fan speeds, and CPU utilization.

WinTemp.exe

WinTemp available at: http://www.edi-logistik.se/5660_temp.zip

Use this tool at your own risk!

(Can anyone confirm that this works with the 8790? I haven't gotten mine yet).

Description:

This quick-and-dirty utility is an ugly hack with the purpose of monitor the CPU temperature on a Clevo 5600D/Sager 5660 with windows xp. Its only tested under these conditions, but its possible that it works with all Sager 56xx under any windows OS, and perhaps many more laptops with similar IC design and Phoenix bios.

The reason for me to make this tool, is that its not possible to monitor the temperature with the utilities that already exists. The reason for that is that the temperature sensor is not placed on the smbus of the southbridge (Intel 82801 ICH3-S) but instead on the smbus on the H8 keyboard/ACPI EC (embedded controller).

The natural way to communicate with the EC and its smbus would be through an ACPI API. But there exists no ACPI API for windows applications, only for device drivers, and I have yet to find out if the sensor is exposed that way.

Instead this application communicates directly with the hardware through IO ports. The EC is connected to IO ports 62h and 66h. This is the lowest level of communication and thats how the cpu communicates with the EC.

FRAPS
available at: http://www.fraps.com/downloads.htm

Description

Fraps is designed as a generic tool for DirectX and OpenGL games. In its current form Fraps performs many tasks and can best be described as:

Benchmarking Software - See how many Frames Per Second (FPS) you are getting onscreen while running your games. You can even perform custom benchmarks and measure the frame rate between any two points. Save the statistics out to disk and use them for your own applications.

Screen Capture Software - Take a screenshot with the press of a key! There's no need to paste into a paint program every time you want to capture the screen. Your screen captures are also automatically named and timestamped.

Realtime Video Capture Software - Have you ever wanted to record video while playing your favourite game? Well now you can! Fraps can capture audio and video up to 1024x768 at 30 frames per second!

TVicHW32 5.0

TVicHW32 available at: http://www.edi-logistik.se/tvichw50.zip
(Thanks DarphBobo)

Description:

TVicHW32 is a general purpose device driver that can be used by practically any programming language. It lets you access and control hardware directly from any Win32 application under Windows 95/98/Me/NT/2000 without having to use the Windows DDK.TVicHW32's main capabilities are: direct port I/O access, obtains pointers to physical memory,simultaneous handling of multiple hardware interrupts and more.

NOTE: DO NOT USE THIS WITH BATTERY POWER AS THE BATTERY CANNOT HANDLE THE FULL LOAD (thanks G-Omaha)

BurnIt

BurnIt available at: http://www.passmark.com/products/bit.htm
Thanks G-Omaha

Description:

Passmark’s BurnInTest is a software tool that allows all the major sub-systems of a computer to be simultaneously tested for reliability and stability.

Assists in PC Troubleshooting and diagnostics.
The best value professional Burn In tool on the market !!
Avoid delivering D.O.A. (Dead on Arrival) hardware to your customers.
Dramatically reduce your burn in times with multithreaded simultaneous testing of components.
Build your image as a supplier of quality systems.
Avoid costly downtime, system rebuilds and lost data.
Test the stability of a system after configuration changes or hardware upgrades (critical for overclocking).

Powerstrip v3.59
available at: http://www.pcworld.com/downloads/fil...id,6241,00.asp

Description:

Access your graphics board directly from your system tray with this handy utility. PowerStrip offers a variety of features, including desktop size and calibration controls, custom display settings, system diagnostics, font controls, customizable hotkeys, and on-the-fly color depth. PowerStrip also has direct hardware support for many chips, allowing you to control your display sub-system.

Battery Bar

available at: http://www.pcworld.com/downloads/fil...id,6924,00.asp

Description:
Why play the guessing game of how much longer your laptop is going to last on its battery's power? Battery Bar shows you exactly how much time you have left before your laptop says goodnight. It also displays the current percentage of battery power left. It continuously displays status icons so that you can always tell if your laptop is on AC, charging, on battery power, or if your battery is low. When you are charging the battery, Battery Bar shows the amount of time until the battery is fully charged. You can also specify a battery percentage level at which Battery Bar will shut down the computer.

NetMonitor 3.0

available at: http://download.com.com/3000-2381-10...ml?tag=lst-0-1


Description:

This program calculates your actual connection speed (TrueSpeed), shows kilobytes received and sent, features a keep-alive function that prevents your ISP from disconnecting you, synchronizes your PC clock at start-up, and much more. (Thought this would be good if you're testing the 8790's internal wireless connection speed)


Benchmarks-

Bench'EmAll 2.55
available at: http://downloads.guru3d.com/download.php?det=544

Description

This is a tool to launch a set of your favourite 3D game benchmarks and synthetic 3D tests in a single batch job automatically. Bench'emAll! will do all the boring stuff for you:start the benchmark, wait for result fps and write result to the file.

Bench'emAll! - this program can help you to do automatic common benchmarking or stability tests with your computer, basically 3D hardware.

All benching results program will stored in 'result' subdir of AutoBench3D catalog. 'items' dir contains all important files for benching. Feel free to modify them for changing tests configurations.


SiSoft Sandra 2004:
available at: http://http://downloads.guru3d.com/d...e15e73587a5d2c

(Thanks $tack$-[WaM])

Features:

Full Support for PDA / Smart Phone devices: All 10 benchmarks and many modules are fully supported on PDA and unlocked Smart Phones1
Remote benchmarking of Pocket PC 2000, 2002, Windows Mobile 2003 and Smartphone 2002, 2003 operating systems. (based on Windows CE 3.0 and Windows .Net CE 4.2 For details see Compatibility List
Two dedicated Internet Benchmarks: Internet/ISP Connection & Peerage Benchmarks
Removable Storage/Flash Benchmark in addition to the File System Benchmark
Multi-platform benchmark results (Win32 x86/IA32, Win64 IA64, Pocket PC ARM)
Multi-language combined installer: English, French, Dutch, Russian and Italian (new in 2004).
Greater support than before for the revolutionary AMD Opteron/Athlon 64/Athlon FX-64 single and multi-processor architecture (AMD Athlon 64/Athlon FX-64 CPUs; SiS 755/760, VIA K8T800/M chipsets; AMD 8111, SiS963/964 south bridges; NUMA up to 32/64 nodes; ACPI 2.0; SMBus 2.0)
Support for Intel Pentium 4 2x400MHz architecture (Intel Pentium 4 2.4-3.2GHz EE CPUs Intel 865FX, 848P, 855PM/DDR333, SiS 648FX, 655FX chipsets; SiS 964 south bridges)
Support for Intel Pentium M mobile architecture (Intel Pentium M 1.2-1.8GHz CPUs; Intel 855GM/DDR333 chipsets)
Support for USB 2.0 High-Speed USB controllers (Enhanced HCI)

PC Mark 2004 (build 110):
available at: http://downloads.guru3d.com/download.php?det=703

Description:

PCMark™04 is the latest version of the popular PCMark series. PCMark04 is an application-based benchmark and a premium tool for measuring overall PC performance. It uses portions of real applications instead of including very large applications or using specifically created code. This allows PCMark04 to be a smaller installation as well as to report very accurate results. As far as possible, PCMark04 uses public domain applications whose source code can be freely examined by any user.


3D Mark 2001SE (build 330):
available at: http://downloads.guru3d.com/download.php?det=320

Description:

3DMark®2001 SE Pro (build 330) is the latest installment in the popular 3DMark series. By combining DirectX®8.1 support with completely new graphics, it continues to provide benchmark results that empower you to make informed hardware assessments. The game tests, texturing tests, filtering tests, image quality tests, and others give you an overview of your system’s current performance and show you what kind of performance you could expect if you were to upgrade your PC.

3D Mark 2003 (build 340):
available at: http://http://download.guru3d.com/3dmark/

Description:
3DMark®03 is the latest version of the highly favoured 3DMark series. By combining full DirectX®9.0a support with completely new tests and graphics, 3DMark03 Pro continues the legacy of being the industry standard benchmark. The high quality game tests, image quality tests, sound tests and others give you an extremely accurate overview of your system’s current gaming performance. Benchmarking has never been so good!

(Can anyone comment on the pros/cons of each of these benchmark utilities? Also might be good to include a thread about how to overclock one's GPU for testing)

Please post all benchmark scores using the above format onto $tack$-[WaM]'s thread (http://notebookforums.com/showthread.php?t=18938)

AquaMark3
available at: http://www.pcextreme.net/downloads.php

Description:

AquaMark3 allows PC users to easily measure and compare the performance of their current and next-generation PC systems. It provides a reliable benchmark which helps users to configure their systems for the best gaming performance.

The AquaMark3 executes a complete state-of-the-art game engine and generates 3D scenes designed to make the same demands on hardware as a modern game.
The utilized game engine, the krass™ Engine, has been used in Aquanox and AquaNox 2: Revelation as well
as in the upcoming RTS Spellforce
by Phenomic Game Development. It is accepted industrywide and well-known to deliver high-performance graphic effects with superior quality.

XMark 7.0
available at: http://downloads.guru3d.com/download.php?det=627

Description:

Slated for a beta release in late June, 2003, the upcoming XMark 7.0, also known as Carleton, will undoubtedly become the most comprehensive and user friendly benchmarking tool available. Version 7.0 will continue to use Microsoft .NET, like its predecessor, XMark.NET 2002. However, major changes to the core of the program will be made, mainly to make it run faster, be more responsive, more flexible, more stable, and definitely use fewer system resources.

Supported Operating Systems: Windows NT 4.0 SP6a, Windows 98 and 98 SE, Windows Me, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Longhorn


RenderBench v.2.0

available at: http://jason57.iwarp.com/case/RenderTest.rar

Description:

A program that allows one to benchmark their GPU's rendering speed.
(Please note: need WinRar to unpack)


There's what I've got so far. Looking forward to checking out my lappy on the 1st. I've read something about Heinrich's tools. What is this? Should this be included in this thread? If so, please post address to download and a brief description.

smithmal

Great list of utilites, only problem is that most of them don't work, or work sporatically with the 8790. I know we need tools to control the fans and monitor the temps. I have fans that for some reason vary speeds (med,lo,med), which tells me the temp is borderline. A control panel to set the temps for speeds would be great. Usually when I game I hit Fn F10 to get the high speed fans and cool the system. I know I'm asking for what has already been asked for. I'll dig deep into the net and see If I can't grab some more.

I would like to knowthe program that freejack speaks of as well

hm... is there anything out there that will function as Freejack asked? To monitor or set the fans?

Doesn't appear to be out there. All we are asking for is something that we can set the temp to allow certain speeds for the fans. Like if the temp is 41C we set the fans at medium for 4 minutes if the the temp increases the fan then increases to high, and vice-versa for temp drops. I looked and found nothing that will allow this.

Hey guys,

If anyone know's any other demo's, or faster downloading mirrors that provide the demo's below please add. Demo's are great to test the machines maximum fps (along with FRAPS), heating/cooling issues, and HD/CPU speed (plus their fun to play). Please note, demo's attached should be known to tax a systems GPU.

Far Cry
available at: http://www.3dgamers.com/games/farcry/

Battlefield 1942
available at: http://www.3dgamers.com/games/battlefield1942/#filelist

Splinter Cell: Pandora's Tomorrow
available at: http://www.3dgamers.com/games/splintercell2/#filelist

Call of Duty
available at: http://www.3dgamers.com/games/callofduty/#filelist

Unreal Tournament 2004
available at: http://www.unrealtournament.com/ut2004/downloads.php

smithmal

Repost from an earlier thread, found here.

Diagnostics :

• AIDA32
• SiSoftware Sandra 2004
• CPU-Z
• Belarc Advisor

Burn-in Testing :

• PassMark BurnIn v 4.0
• Memtest86
• Prime95

Benchmarking :

• SiSoftware Sandra 2004 SP1
• PCMark04
• CrystalMark08
• PassMark PerformanceTest v 5.0
• 3DMark®2001 SE Pro Build 330
• 3DMark®03
• SynthMark XP Edition v 1.0
• VeriTest Business Winstone 2004
• VeriTest WinBench99 v 2.0
• VeriTest Multimedia Content Creation Winstone 2004
• Veritest Business Winstone 2004 BatteryMark
• PassMark BatteryMon v 1.3

Do hope this helps.

I8kfanGUI version 2.2.0

doesnt work on my Sager 8790. Im pretty sure its not compatible with this model.

-Mat

Hi everyone,

First time poster here. I've been looking over your reviews and benchmarks for my new 8790, soon to be in my hot little hands Monday. (woo-hoo)

So to prepare, i've been gathering all my demos, benchmarks, etc. on my desktop computer.

I googled Far Cry, and found a website that gave me download speeds on my standard cable modem at over 2200 K/s. (Not a Typo.)

http://www.gigex.com

The catch is you have to download their little plugin to use their download software, but holy cow! I downloaded the entire Far Cry in 20 minutes. Then i continued on and downloaded a bunch more demos. UT2004, Splinter Cell, they had them all!

If you open a new window, and go back to that website, you can have simultenious downloads at at speeds over 3 meg/s total. I kid you not!! I've never seen my download speed that fast in my life.

I havn't opened the files yet, but the Far Cry was about 490 meg. So i assume it's all there. Hope this helps.

Ive run my lappy on full power many times on the batteries and i have no problems. Couldnt live without it.

BUT....

You don't have an 8790, do you?

This is the 8790 Tech Support area!