ASTRA32 - Advanced System Information Tool 2.99 Beta / 2.13 - Changelog

What's new in ASTRA32 - Advanced System Information Tool 2.13:

March 20th, 2012

· Added reading of SPD information on Intel Lynx Point chipset
· Added detection of Intel Xeon (Sandy Bridge-E) processor
· Added detection of new processors feature: AMD Effective Frequency Interface
· Added preliminary support of Windows 8
· Fixed calculation of HDD health status in some rare cases
· Some minor bugs fixed
· Updated program database

What's new in ASTRA32 - Advanced System Information Tool 2.12:

December 20th, 2011

· Added detection of Intel Atom (Cedarview) processor
· Some minor bugs fixed
· Updated program database

What's new in ASTRA32 - Advanced System Information Tool 2.11:

November 22nd, 2011

· Added reading of SPD information on Intel 6 Series/C200 Series chipset, Intel X79 chipset, Intel DH89xxCC series chipset, Intel System Controller Hub, Intel Panther Point chipset, AMD Hudson-2 chipset, ServerWorks HT1100 south bridge, Intel Atom E6xx processor
· Added detection of Intel Core i7 Extreme (Sandy Bridge-E), Intel Core i7 (Sandy Bridge-E), Intel Celeron (Sandy Bridge), AMD Opteron (Valencia), AMD Opteron (Interlagos), AMD Z series, AMD E series (Llano), AMD AMD Athlon II X4 (Llano), AMD Athlon II X2 (Llano), AMD Sempron X2 (Llano) processors
· Added preliminary support of Intel Ivy Bridge, AMD Trinity processors
· Added detection of new processors features: RDRAND Insruction Supported, AMD Translation Cache Extension, AMD Topology Extensions, AMD Core Performance Counter Ext., AMD NB Performance Counter Ext.
· Improved support of AMD A series, AMD E series (Llano) processors
· Fixed reading of SPD information on ATI SB800 south bridge
· Some minor bugs fixed
· Updated program database

What's new in ASTRA32 - Advanced System Information Tool 2.10:

June 15th, 2011

· Added support of Intel Extreme Memory Profile (XMP)
· Added support of SMBIOS 2.7.1 standard
· Added detection of Intel Xeon (Sandy Bridge), Intel Xeon (Westmere-EX), Intel Core i7 Extreme (Sandy Bridge), Intel Core i5 (Sandy Bridge), Intel Core i3 (Sandy Bridge), Intel Pentium (Sandy Bridge), Intel Core i7 Extreme Mobile (Sandy Bridge), Intel Core i7 Mobile (Sandy Bridge), Intel Core i5 Mobile (Sandy Bridge), Intel Core i3 Mobile (Sandy Bridge), Intel Celeron (Sandy Bridge), Intel Atom (Lincroft), AMD FX series, AMD Phenom II XLT, AMD Athlon II XLT, AMD Athlon II XL, AMD A series, AMD C series, AMD E series, AMD G series processors
· Added detection of new processors features: Process Context Identifiers, Time Stamp Counter Deadline
· Some minor bugs fixed
· Updated program database

What's new in ASTRA32 - Advanced System Information Tool 2.08 Final:

December 20th, 2010

· Added detection of Intel EP80579 processor
· Fixed detection of Intel Core i7 (Gulftown), VIA Nano processors
· Fixed detection of cache size and parameters of Intel Core i7 (Gulftown) processor
· Some minor bugs fixed
· Updated program database

What's new in ASTRA32 - Advanced System Information Tool 2.07 Final:

November 18th, 2010

· Added Turkish language support
· Added support of SMBIOS 2.7 standard
· Added detection of Intel Core i7 (Sandy Bridge), Intel Core i7 (Gulftown), Intel Celeron Mobile (Arrandale), Intel Atom (Tunnel Creek), AMD Opteron 41xx, AMD Turion II Neo Dual-Core, AMD Athlon II Neo Dual-Core, AMD Athlon II Neo, AMD Sempron X2 (Regor), AMD V Series Dual-Core, AMD V Series (Geneva) processors
· Added detection of new processors features: F16C Instruction Supported, AMD Core Performance Boost, AMD Light Weight Profiling (LWP), AMD FMA4 Insruction Supported, AMD TBM Insruction Supported
· Fixed detection of Intel Core i5 (Lynnfield) processor
· Some minor bugs fixed
· Updated program database

What's new in ASTRA32 - Advanced System Information Tool 2.06 Final:

June 22nd, 2010

· Added reading of SPD information on nVidia MCP89 south bridge
· Added detection of Intel Xeon (Clarkdale), Intel Xeon (Gulftown), Intel Xeon (Beckton), Intel Xeon (Jasper Forest), Intel Pentium Mobile (Arrandale), Intel Celeron (Jasper Forest), AMD Phenom II X6, AMD Phenom II X4 (Zosma), AMD Phenom II Mobile, AMD Turion II, AMD Turion II Neo, AMD Athlon II Mobile, AMD Athlon II Mobile Neo, AMD V1xx Series processors
· Fixed detection of Intel Quade-Core Xeon (Dunnington) processor
· Fixed program hang-up during S.M.A.R.T. test in some rare cases
· Some minor bugs fixed
· Updated program database

What's new in ASTRA32 - Advanced System Information Tool 2.05 Final:

February 9th, 2010

· Added Portuguese language support
· Added calculation of Host Writes parameter on Intel SSD
· Added support of Intel SSD S.M.A.R.T. parameters
· Added detection of Max Turbo Clock of processors with Intel Dynamic Acceleration Technology.
· Added detection of Intel Core i7 Mobile (Arrandale), Intel Core i5 Mobile, Intel Core i3 Mobile, Intel Atom (Pineview), AMD Athlon II processors
· Improved support of Intel Lynnfield/Clarksfield family processors
· Fixed detection of Core i5 (Clarkdale), Core i3, Pentium (Clarkdale) processors
· Some minor bugs fixed
· Updated program database

What's new in ASTRA32 - Advanced System Information Tool 2.04 Final:

October 27th, 2009

· Added support of SMBIOS 2.6.1 standard
· Improved DDR3 memory modules support
· Added detection of Intel Quad-Core Xeon (Lynnfield), Intel Core i9, Intel Core i5 (Clarkdale), Intel Core i3, Intel Core i7 Mobile, Intel Core i7 Mobile Extreme Edition, Intel Pentium (Clarkdale), Intel Celeron (Wolfdale), AMD Opteron (Magny-Cours), AMD Athlon II Dual-Core, AMD Athlon Neo X2, AMD Athlon X2 (Conesus), AMD Athlon (Sable), AMD Athlon (Huron), AMD Turion II Ultra Dual-Core Mobile, AMD Turion II Dual-Core Mobile, AMD Turion Neo X2, AMD Turion X2 (Conesus), AMD Sempron X2, AMD Sempron (Conesus), DM&P Vortex86DX, DM&P Vortex86MX
· Some minor bugs fixed
· Updated program database

What's new in ASTRA32 - Advanced System Information Tool 2.03 Final:

June 17th, 2009

· Added support of DDR3 memory modules
· Added detection of Intel Dual-Core Xeon (Bloomfield), Intel Quad-Core Xeon (Bloomfield), AMD Six-Core Opteron
· Added detection of memory modules manufacturing location for some vendors
· Some minor bugs fixed
· Updated program database

What's new in ASTRA32 - Advanced System Information Tool 2.02 Final:

March 31st, 2009

· Added detection of Intel Lynnfield, AMD Opteron (Santa Rosa), AMD Athlon (Lima), AMD Athlon Neo, AMD Sempron Dual Core (Tyler), AMD Sempron (Huron)
· Added Insyde BIOS for Acer support
· Added new command line switch /C - specify comment
· Fixed program hang-up on Intel Core i7 based computers
· Some minor bugs fixed
· Updated program database

What's new in ASTRA32 - Advanced System Information Tool 2.01 Final:

December 4th, 2008

· Added support of SMBIOS 2.6 standard
· Added detection of HD DVD-R DL, HD DVD-RW, HD DVD-RW DL write features
· Added reading of SPD information on Intel P55 chipset, VIA VX800/VX820 chipset, VIA VT8237S, nVidia MCP73/MCP78/MCP79 south bridges
· Added detection of Intel Quad-Core Xeon (Gainestown), Intel Dual-Core Xeon (Gainestown), Intel Core i7 Extreme, Intel Core 2 Quad Mobile, Pentium Dual-Core (Wolfdale), Intel Core 2 Solo (Penryn), Celeron M (Penryn)
· Fixed detection of AMD Family 11h processors
· Fixed detection of Intel Atom clock multiplier
· Fixed the error 'File astra32.dat not found' appearing on some computers
· Some minor bugs fixed
· Updated program database

What's new in ASTRA32 - Advanced System Information Tool 2.01 Beta:

December 2nd, 2008

· Added detection of new processors
· Updated program database
· Fixed 'astra32.dat not found' error

What's new in ASTRA32 - Advanced System Information Tool 1.41 beta:

August 21st, 2006

· Added extended network information
· Added support of SMBIOS 2.5 standard
· Some bugs fixed
· Updated program database