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PE Reader ( Beta ) allows you to view the header information of any PE.

Compatibility:    - XP - Server 2003

The Advanced Graph Manager (AGM) is a powerful visual tool for building and testing 32-bit and 64-bit filter graphs. With AGM, you can quickly build and test filter graphs to see if they function as you expect. You can even view and full control a filter graphs created by another applications (32-bit or 64-bit).

Compatibility:    - XP - Vista

Starting with Windows XP Service Pack 2 and Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1, Windows supports a new security enhancement called Data Execution Prevention (DEP). This feature prevents execution of program code in memory regions which normally do not contain any program code, such as the program stack, the process heap or data segments. Certain types of viruses or worms infect computers by provoking a buffer overrun in a vulnerable application to insert and execute their own, malicious code. With Data Execution Prevention (DEP) such attempts will be detected by the CPU and stopped by the operating system, thus ending a vulnerable application instead of allowing it to infect the computer with a virus or worm.

Note that this will not secure you from any malicious executables you may run voluntarily, such as e-mail attachments or downloads from unverified web sites, which may contain a virus, worm or trojan.

NXTEST is an application which allows you to check if Data Execution Prevention (DEP) is active on your computer by attempting to execute program code from a data segment, the process heap and the program stack, and reports whether all attempts were prevented by the operating system or not.

Compatibility:    - XP - Server 2003

As the Iometer User's Guide says, Iometer is an I/O subsystem measurement and characterization tool for single and clustered systems.

Compatibility:    - XP

Blobby Dancer for AMD64 is a liquid-like dancer created by NVIDIA. Watch how he moves and grooves in a surreal disco world of music, light, and color. Originally introduced as a 32-bit technology demo, NVIDIA ported the Blobby Dancer software code to take advantage of the increased performance offered by the 64-bit processing architecture of the AMD Athlon 64 processor. Internal tests of the 64-bit Blobby Dancer demo show the new version outperforms the 32-bit version by more than 27 percent in comparable computing environments.

Note: Tests were conducted using an NVIDIA nForce3-based motherboard, an AMD Athlon 64 processor, a GeForce 6800 GT GPU, and Microsoft Windows XP 64-bit Build 1195.

Compatibility:    - XP

Stata is a complete, integrated statistical package that provides everything you need for data analysis, data management, and graphics. Stata 10 adds many new features such as multilevel mixed models, exact logistic regression, multiple correspondence analysis, a graph editor, and time-and-date variables. Find out more about these features at New in Stata 10.

Compatibility:    - XP - Linux - Mac - Vista - Solaris - Server 2003

Natural lighting makes artificial graphics life-like. Computers get faster, but rendering more polygons doesn't add value if lighting looks faked, so insiders know that the next big thing is proper lighting aka Realtime Global Illumination. Typical workloads in realtime rendering will shift. Lightsmark simulates it. Global Illumination renders often take hours. Is your computer fast enough for realtime?

Before Lightsmark, realtime global illumination was limited to small scenes, small resolutions, small speeds, specially crafted scenes with handmade optimizations. Lightsmark breaks all limits at once, running in reasonably sized scene (220000 triangles) in high resolution (1680x1050) at excellent speed (100-400fps). Lighting is computed fully automatically in original unmodified scene from 2007 game World of Padman, not tweaked for Lightsmark and with all sorts of geometrical difficulties, with extra rooms hidden below floor etc.

Compatibility:    - XP - Vista

Core Temp is a compact, no fuss, small footprint program to monitor CPU temperature.

The uniqueness of it is that it shows the temperature of each individual core in a each processor in your system! You can see in real time how the CPU temperature varies when you load your CPU.

Compatibility:    - XP - Server 2003

PerfMonitor is a processor performance monitoring tool. It allows to track the frequency of 4 events choosen in a set of model-specific list.

PerfMonitor can be used to identify the performance bottlenecks of a system, or to monitor a program for cache-miss rate or mis-predicted branches. But PerfMonitor can also be used as a hardware-level CPU comparison tool, comparing the key parameters of different CPUs runnning the same benchmark.

Compatibility:    - XP - Vista - Server 2003

CPU-Z is a freeware that gathers information on some of the main devices of your system.

Compatibility:    - XP - Vista - Server 2003