Software update: HWiNFO 4.9.6

Martin Malík has updated HWiNFO, the DOS version of HWiNFO32, to version 4.9.6. With this piece of software it is possible to find out all kinds of information about the hardware in a computer. The program can also run a number of benchmarks on the system to see how well it performs. The changelog of this release shows the following changes:

Changes in HWiNFO 4.96:

• Added VIA P4M800 and PT894 + VT8287 chipsets.
• Added recognition of ATI X850 and X800XL cards.
• Added recognition and support of ATI Radeon Xpress 200 (RS480) chipset.
• Added SATA bus support for some nForce chipsets.
• Fixed report of supported DDR2 memory speed for some modules.
• Updated recognition of Intel E7210 and 925XE chipsets.
• Updated recognition of Intel Celeron D Processor.
• Added report of Virtual Machine Extensions (Vanderpool) support.
• Added support of LM85, ADT7460, SMSC LPC47M192, SCH311X, EMC6D100, EMC6D101, EMC6D102, EMC6D103, A8000 and Philips NE1619 sensors.
• Added support of SiS180 SATA Controller.
• Added support of ALi M1563 SMBus Host.
• Updated support of ATI Rage128 family.
• Improved identification of XGI Volari V3XT, V5XT, V8 Ultra Duo cards.
• Added 3DLabs P20, U20 and P25 3D Accelerators.
• Updated detection of memory speed for DDR2-667 and faster modules.
• Enhanced preliminary support of future Intel products (Lakeport, Glenwood, Mukilteo, Calistoga, Twin Castle, Smithfield, Yonah).
• Added dual-core Intel Pentium D and Pentium Extreme Edition names.
• Fixed CPU clock ratio detection for some AMD K7 models.
• Added ATI RADEON X850 XT, Pro, Platinum based on R481.
• Added recognition of AMD Ex-stepping CPUs (Venice, San Diego, Palermo).
• Added detection and support of AMD Athlon64 X2 (Toledo), Dual-core Opteron (Denmark, Italy, Egypt) and Turion64 Mobile (Newark, Lancaster).
• Added support of Intel 854 chipset.
• Added recognition of nVidia nForce4 Intel Edition.

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