NVidia System Utility 1.0 Released

[SM-Bot]

NVIDIA® System Utility is the ultimate utility for accessing, monitoring, and adjusting your system components, including temperature and voltages with clear, user-friendly control panels. Overclock your system for highest performance or underclock it for near silent operation. All changes are performed within the Microsoft® Windows® interface – enabling full functionality without the need to make changes in the BIOS and reboot your system.

For a listing of all fully-supported motherboards & chipset products supported by this utility, refer to http://www.nvidia.com/motherboards.

Officially Supported Chipsets:
NForce 3 Pro 150
NForce 3 150
NForce 2 Ultra 400
NForce 2 400

Officially Supported Motherboards:
ASUS A7N8X-E
Biostar M7NCG
Epox EP-8RDA+
Epox EP-8RDA3+
ABIT NF7-S
Gigabyte K8NNXP
Shuttle AN50

Download the NVidia System Utility (5 MB) from NVidia.com (http://www.nvidia.com/object/sysutility_1.0)

[Omega65]

WooHoo! :thumbsup:

[TheSmJ]

I do want to try it, but for some reason OCing with the BIOS seems like it would be a better idea...

[MJO]

I cannot pick the Advanced option in the menu.
Nothing happens

I can use Overclocking basic and System Information.
Everything else is not available to me.

EDIT I think I have found out why, the program cannot identify my motherboard.
There is nothing in motherboard information.
Not reported is what I get.

[EQuito]

Don't bother, it doesn't work. Despite nVidia claims of "Officially Supported Motherboards", manufactures have to release supporting bios in order for the utility to work properly.

/edit: actually, FSB upwards works but it'll crash if you try to lower it... :(

[Shorty]

I installed it and then realised my NF7-S Ver.2 board supports about one feature of it (FSB overclocking).

What a worthless piece of software. Un-installed as it serves zero purpose.

I didn't try underclocking my FSB, better watch for that (those who do get some functionality out of it).

What on earth are nVidia doing? What kind of mindset released such a hideous under-supported "utility". Doesn't even monitor temps & voltages on one of the most popular nForce2 boards out there :banghead:

[MJO]

BTW shouldn't nVidia be working on new nForce drivers instead?
It's been a while since the last update.

[TheLostSwede]

Hey lads, dont jump ship yet.

THERE ARE several NF2 boards who´s bios isn´t going further than 200 fsb, quite a lot of them actually. For those peeps, this proggy is awesome.

If you look carefully in that proggy, you can actually see which regustry changes it does a la wpcredit or wprset. Who knows, maybe someone will try those changes directly in wprset instead ;)

Let say you have a stick that refuses to boot at cas 2, but this proggy let you run it in cas 2, wouldn´t that be great?

Give it some time and it will mature. Set fsb for Intel setups has been a great tool and it took a while to work.

[MJO]

I hope it will get better later on.

But on my Abit board it doesn't support very much.

I can't see any temps/voltages and I can only access overclocking basic.
No advanced options for me.

And no Abit version has been released yet.

[TheLostSwede]

Which bios do you use MJO?

I bet all NF2 manufacturers soon to be released newest bios will have some sort of support for this.

[MJO]

I use BIOS 18 for rev 2.0

[Thrax]

This program DID allow me to find my maximum stable FSB in Windows without rebooting over and over. There's something to be said for that. It's 217MHz.

[MJO]

Congratulations Thrax. ;)
It is much easier to test everything without having to reboot.
But why doesn't it work for me?
I read a lot of negative things about this utillity.
Seems that a lot of people are not satisfied with it.
Oh well how can you complain?
It's for free.
But I would have liked a new, 100% working, driver better.

BTW: Thrax, what motherboard did you test it on?