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nVidia nTune 2005

Posted by Courage on 08 December 2004 - 13:10 · 37 comments & 4401 views

The NVIDIA nTune is the easiest, fastest, and safest performance optimization and monitoring application available for your PC. Incorporating more features than any other system tuning or monitoring product, NVIDIA nTune is the only performance tuning application designed exclusively for your NVIDIA nForce-based PC.

With NVIDIA nTune your system can automatically adjust to maximum performance settings for intense gaming or will detect that you’ve inserted a DVD and will set the system to quiet operation.

This intelligent application offers the safest way to change bus speeds, memory timings, and even tweak voltages. Changes are made easily within a simple-to-use Windows interface—so you no longer need to make changes to the BIOS or reboot your system.

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· The best PC performance: Choose between a silent running mode or the best graphics performance settings and the wizard automatically adjusts all performance metrics (clocks, voltages, fan speeds, bus speeds, etc.) to get the best options for the hardware in the system.
· Improved dynamic overclocking: Provides on-the-fly overclocking and BIOS configuration within an easy-to-use Windows interface that is streamlined and simplified for better user understanding.
· Benchmarking wizard: See how your PC configuration stacks up against synthetic benchmarks before and after adjusting system parameters.
· Saved system profiles: Save, import, and export custom overclocking or BIOS profiles. Assign profiles to favorite programs for automatic application. A safety "watchdog" checks temperature and steps system down if failure could occur.
· GPU overclocking: Overclocking of GeForce FX and GeForce 6 Series GPUs is supported in concert with system overclocking, temperature monitoring, and system profiles.
· System troubleshooting: An automated reporting tool captures all needed information to help you determine when problems may be happening to the system, and helps you troubleshoot.
· Improved system monitoring: Temperatures, voltages, and bus speeds are now available as an “always-on-top” window with a transparency option so that it is visible at all times.
· Voltage and bus speed monitoring: Track actual motherboard voltages, GPU clocks, bus speeds, and CPU core speed to ensure safe and correct settings.
· Temperature and fan speed monitoring: Real-time monitoring of CPU, GPU and system temperatures helps prevent hardware damage. nTune supports dual-CPU and SLI multi-GPU systems.
· Dynamically adjustable voltages and fan speeds: Adjust motherboard voltage levels without a reboot, as well as dynamically control fan speeds.
· Dynamically adjustable memory timings: Change critical memory timings without rebooting and without entering the BIOS.

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#1 Posted by caveman017 on 08 Dec 2004 - 13:22: is this for nvidia chipset motherboards (ie the nforce 2) or nvidia video cards?

#2 Posted by nw_raptor on 08 Dec 2004 - 13:38: ^ check the screenshot... it can do both, though i dont know if it works as a forceware-only tuner...

(1 reply) #3 Posted by Beast_4thHM on 08 Dec 2004 - 13:46: Is this official ie nvidia made tool?

(1 reply) #4 Posted by dougkinzinger on 08 Dec 2004 - 14:50: Too bad it only works with Nforce....

--DK

(1 reply) #5 Posted by SkyyPunk on 08 Dec 2004 - 14:51: "This software requires an NVIDIA nForce2 or nForce3 motherboard to operate"

#6 Posted by Tikimotel on 08 Dec 2004 - 16:12: is this version 2.00.19 (05)? or newer?

OK, it's version number v2.00.19 (Asus release, see OEMlogo.bmp)

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#7 Posted by humcheepeng on 08 Dec 2004 - 16:54: Neowin needs to link directly to the source instead of Softpedia all the time.

(1 reply) #8 Posted by Mx² on 08 Dec 2004 - 18:01: Cool, I might try this out, and yea direct link instead of softpedia would be good

#9 Posted by neo_joel on 08 Dec 2004 - 20:27: Sweet, thanks for this.

#10 Posted by craZySoldier on 08 Dec 2004 - 22:58: did anyone try the auto tune thing?
it says may take up to hour so i dont want to try it untill someone says they did it and how long it took

#11 Posted by NeoXP on 08 Dec 2004 - 23:48: I just finnished the auto tuning.. didn't take too long.. about 30 minutes.. and after it finnished I ran another benchmark and it was MUCH better... Worked great for me!!!

(7 replies) #12 Posted by X-Spyder on 09 Dec 2004 - 02:49: I have an nVida video card and mohterboard (nforce2) and it won't install for me. Give two errors about the Windows Installer.

#13 Posted by rain on 09 Dec 2004 - 12:18: I must be pretty good at tuning pc's.. my score was 92, an after this ntune "tuning" score was only 79. Now to find what the hell did it change to get my 13 points back. I have MSI delta-l

#14 Posted by andRUWeir on 09 Dec 2004 - 12:32: ASUS A7N8X, and GeForce FX5700 here . . .

I started out with a score of 76, ran ntune (took 35mins) rebooted a few times, when it was done, my overclock had been bumped up 100Mhz, and my memory timings had been changed a bit, ran the benchmark, and got 88 this time! Worked like a charm, and so far everything has been stable far as I can tell. (AthlonXP 2100 @ 2.13 GHz, 322FSB)

(1 reply) #15 Posted by Beast_4thHM on 09 Dec 2004 - 12:41: hey... wth did it increase my AGP to 80mhz!

#16 Posted by oldmusicman on 09 Dec 2004 - 15:53: I've tried it several times, and when it gets to about a half an inch on the progress line, my computer restarts. Everytime. I wish it would work,, but doesn't look like it. I've Asus nmotherboard, and alll, it just wont finish.

#17 Posted by neo_joel on 09 Dec 2004 - 21:36: Hmmm... i ran the auto tuning and in the program itself it shows as my cpu speed is up 200mhz to 2.01 from 1.83 (stock on my 2500+) and my memory speed went up to 362 from 333 (stock) but yet in windows it still says its 1.83ghz and my ram is still 333, wtf, did it change or not?

(2 replies) #18 Posted by Ikshaar on 10 Dec 2004 - 00:04: What is that crappy thing... failed to install... is this a leaked thing or what ??

I could not find it on nvidia site.

#19 Posted by python134r on 10 Dec 2004 - 15:14: My first run scored a 132, baseline is 82. Maybe I shouldnt use this. Hmmm

#20 Posted by craZySoldier on 11 Dec 2004 - 16:12: so the auto tune is a auto overclocker?

bc if it is i wont use it

#21 Posted by j0j081 on 12 Dec 2004 - 09:10: So what is the verdict on this? Seems there are a lot of complaints.

#22 Posted by Darkness2k on 12 Dec 2004 - 20:31: Well for me it got around a 3rd of the way through the System Performance auto-tune... then crashed to a BSOD..then everytime I booted I got an NTFS.SYS bsod...

Which happened on everything from another hd XP boot, to the XP CD boot.. I had to physically disconnect the HDD to reinstall XP on another HD... still trying to figure out a way to regain access to my main HDD without losing the data on it.

#23 Posted by egar on 14 Dec 2004 - 01:08: For me, the Autotune function ended up burning out my graphics card (Gefore Ti 4200). I'm assuming that Autotune tried to overclock the card further than it could go. The screen screwed up a couple of time and a reboot would correct it for about 5 seconds, then it would go again. Finally couldn't boot at all. Tried the card in a couple of machines and still no luck.

The good news is I got to buy a new, better card.

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