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NVidia System Utility 1.0 Released

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edited October 2003 in Science & Tech
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

Comments

  • Omega65Omega65 Philadelphia, Pa
    edited October 2003
    WooHoo! :thumbsup:
  • TheSmJTheSmJ
    edited October 2003
    I do want to try it, but for some reason OCing with the BIOS seems like it would be a better idea...
  • MJOMJO Denmark New
    edited October 2003
    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.
  • EQuitoEQuito SoCal, USA
    edited October 2003
    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... :(
  • ShortyShorty Manchester, UK Icrontian
    edited October 2003
    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:
  • MJOMJO Denmark New
    edited October 2003
    BTW shouldn't nVidia be working on new nForce drivers instead?
    It's been a while since the last update.
  • TheLostSwedeTheLostSwede Trondheim, Norway Icrontian
    edited October 2003
    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.
  • MJOMJO Denmark New
    edited October 2003
    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.
  • TheLostSwedeTheLostSwede Trondheim, Norway Icrontian
    edited October 2003
    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.
  • MJOMJO Denmark New
    edited October 2003
    I use BIOS 18 for rev 2.0
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited October 2003
    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.
  • MJOMJO Denmark New
    edited October 2003
    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?
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