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HWM BlackBox Changelog

What's new in HWM BlackBox 2.3.3820.11306

Nov 24, 2011
  • Faster boot time by 0.
  • Added support for Intel Core i3/i5/i7 "2000" series processors (Sandy
  • Bridge).
  • Added preliminary support for Intel Sandy Bridge-EP processors.
  • Added support for Intel Core i7 970 "Gulftown".
  • Added support for Intel P67 chipset.
  • Added support for AMD Phenom II, Athlon II and Sempron II "Caspian"
  • processors.
  • Added P67/H67 stepping report.
  • Added support for AMD FX "Bulldozer" processor family (K15).
  • Added support for AMD Llano processor family (K12).
  • Added support for Intel Xeon "Westmere-EX".
  • Added support for AMD Zacate/Ontario processors.
  • Updated Chipset revision info.
  • Improved power consumption info on new generation processors.
  • Added support for ATI Radeon HD 6 series.
  • Added support for NVIDIA GTX 500 series.

New in HWM BlackBox 2.2.3725.11091 (Apr 4, 2011)

  • Intel Xeon "Westmere-EX" support
  • GPU frequency report on Intel Sandy Bridge processor
  • AMD Zacate/Ontario processors support
  • Report TDP on main page when available
  • Cores clocks on floating menu
  • P67/H67 stepping report
  • Intel Core i3/i5/i7 "2000" serie processors (Sandy Bridge) with new logos.
  • Intel Core i7 970 "Gulftown".
  • Intel P67 chipset.
  • AMD Phenom II, Athlon II and Sempron II "Caspian" processors.
  • Support Crucial Ballistix with thermal sensor.
  • New sensor chips : Winbond W83783S, Nuvoton NCT6776., Fintek F71862, F71869, F71889,
  • F81865, CHIL CHL8266, ITE IT8721, Analog Device ADM1033.
  • Intel QST 2.0.
  • Gigabyte DES monitoring

New in HWM BlackBox 2.0 Build 1900 (Nov 17, 2009)

  • Fixed problems detected with RC1 feedbacks.
  • Enhancements with mainboard temperature sensor reads.
  • Special versions to run on x86, x64 and both platforms have been compiled.

New in HWM BlackBox 2.0 Bulid 1892 RC1 (Nov 17, 2009)

  • Fixed issues problems in L2 caches lower than 1 MB
  • Abondoned digit seperator usage
  • Added auto-reset feature to run in case of corrupt configuration file
  • Added functionality to run with renewed configuration file if run with
  • "-reset" parameter
  • Fixed misplacement of configuration file

New in HWM BlackBox 2.0 Build 1850 RC1 (Nov 17, 2009)

  • Fixed Info Bar mapping issues
  • Fixed all problems coming with the beta version
  • Beta roadmap completed, moved to RC1 version

New in HWM BlackBox 1.9 Build 1823 Beta (Nov 17, 2009)

  • Optimized performance of dynamic data update speed management
  • All routines on sensor detection have been rewritten
  • Update speed parameter added to main menu
  • Gadget feeds and usage counters are now optional
  • Internal popup feature added for Info Bar
  • Hardware info and User-specific data can be displayed on Info Bar
  • Redesigned XML and TXT export structures

New in HWM BlackBox 1.9 Build 1579 Beta (Nov 17, 2009)

  • Logos added for Quadro, GeForce and HD 5 series
  • Extended ATI video card support.
  • Extended hard disk support.

New in HWM BlackBox 1.8 Build 1565 Alpha (Nov 17, 2009)

  • Extended video card support
  • Added detailed support for 58 new ATI video cards
  • Added new communication bar "Info Bar"

New in HWM BlackBox 1.7 Build 1407 Alpha (Nov 17, 2009)

  • Fixed occasional hanging while closing program
  • Improved refreshing of realtime data
  • Fixed invisible window if minimized during startup screen
  • Measures against possible misidentification of GPUs
  • Revised memory screen mapping
  • Revised OS information
  • Added support for 2 new NVIDIA video cards
  • Revised data mapping in Graphics Tab

New in HWM BlackBox 1.7 Build 1297 Alpha (Nov 17, 2009)

  • Rewritten Core Voltage-ID (CoreVID) identification routines. Improved accuracy and
  • sensitivity especially for mobile processors
  • Added integration with Windows 7 performance tools
  • Fixed inconsistence in Windows 7 rating graphs
  • Fixed misformulation in calculating general system rating
  • Added support for NVIDIA ION platform
  • Added support for NVIDIA nForce 980a chipset
  • Added support for Intel Core i5 and Core i3 CPUs
  • Added support for Intel Atom Z530 and Core 2 Solo CPUs
  • Added support for Intel P55 and US15W chipsets
  • Added support for AMD Phenom II 42 TWKR CPU
  • Added support for AMD Phenom X2 "Callisto" and Athlon X2
  • quot;Regor" CPUs
  • Added support for AMD Athlon Neo
  • Added support for Pentium DC E6300 (2.8GHz)
  • Video card name
  • Official logo of GPU
  • Brand and process technology of GPU (e.g.G70, 55nm)
  • Standard speed information for GPU core and shader processors in MHz
  • Realtime speed information for current GPU core and Shader processors in MHz
  • Type and amount of memory installed on video card (e.g. 1024MB - GDDR5)
  • Video card memory bandwidth information in GBps
  • Video card Bus information (e.g. 8 x 64bit )
  • Video card standard speed information in MHz
  • Realtime speed information for current video memory in MHz
  • Interface information (e.g. PCIe2.0)
  • Computing power of shader processors in GFLOPS
  • Pixel Fill Rate in MPixels/sec
  • Texture Fill Rate in MTexels/sec
  • Number of Shader processors
  • Number of Texture Units
  • Number of Raster Operators
  • Pipeline type (e.g. Scalar MADD + MUL)
  • Added display of video card max. power consumption
  • Added display of information on hardware DirectX suppport
  • Added display of information on hardware OpenGL support
  • Added display of Pixel Shader version information
  • Added display of Vertex Shader version information
  • Combined HDD information in System tab, added support for 1050 HDD models
  • Added optical drive support in System tab
  • Added detailed support for 195 NVIDIA video cards
  • Fixed occasional arithmetic overflow errors on RAM profile change
  • New system for error tracing and debugging
  • Display and upload trace report to server through CTRL + T shortcut
  • A system developed to analyse and process uploaded error reports and trace data
  • Fixed problems with HDD temperature sensor detection
  • Fixed XML problems causing crash during upload to server

New in HWM BlackBox 1.1.0 (Apr 13, 2009)

  • BlackBox v1.1.0 is recoded. Speed of functions like startup and
  • hardware
  • identification have now doubled.
  • O/C Panel beta for overclocking enthusiasts
  • Realtime Core Voltage monitoring
  • Realtime Thermal Design Power(TDP) monitoring in terms of Watt
  • Realtime monitoring of crucial voltage such as "+3.3V, +5V and +12V "
  • Realtime monitoring of DDR Memory voltage
  • Realtime monitoring of CPU fan speed and other fan speeds available on
  • system
  • Realtime monitoring of HDD temperature
  • Realtime monitoring of GPU temperature
  • Realtime monitoring of GFX memory and graphic/shader streaming processor
  • speeds
  • Overall system temperature over motherboard sensors
  • Also capable of monitoring temperature on motherboard sensors in
  • addition to integrated digital temperature sensors on CPU
  • Detects all all network adapters and provides speed support
  • Old Intel logos replaced with new versions
  • Motherboard brand logos added
  • Italian language support added
  • Now supports latest Nvidia 740i chipsets , AMD Phenom II and Intel Core
  • i7 processors
  • Individual versions for Windows XP and Vista/Windows 7 (WinXP version
  • requires .NET Framework 2.0)
  • And surely dozens of bug fixes.

New in HWM BlackBox 1.0.2.408 (Dec 29, 2008)

  • Support for AMD Phenom II
  • Support for Intel Core i7(Nehalem)
  • Support for QPI Link in Core i7(Nehalem) series
  • Threading support added and now Hyper-Threading processors can be identified
  • PCI slot identification algorithm is optimized
  • Character set identification for Vista Gadget
  • Chinese language support for Vista Gadget
  • German, French and Chinese languages are added
  • System language is identified at program startup
  • Start at Windows startup option
  • Optimizations in XMP ve EPP memory profile identification
  • Optimizations in export functions
  • Several bugfixes