Dr. Hardware Sysinfo  - What is new
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9.0e:
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- System benchmark updated in order to benchmark new, fast processors
- detects Athlon 64/64FX/Opteron, Intel Pentium M, VIA CX 3 Nehemiah; 
- improved detection of Pentium 4 and Celeron (including Mobile types), 
  Xeon, Xeon MP, Pentium-III-S and Xeon
  (preliminary) Pentium 4 EE detection
  improved Transmeta processor detection (TM3200/5400/55005600/5800),
  (preliminary) Transmeta Efficeon detection
- PCI analysis: detects new device classes, updated to PCI 2.3, 
  detects IRQ > 15
- detects Phoenix Award Bios
- detects new PCI devices
- Support for Intel 848P chipset; detects nForce, nForce2, nForce3 and
  current ServerWorks, SiS and ALi chipsets
- detects new CPU features:
  Enhanced SpeedStep Technology, Hyperthreading architecture
- detects and analyzes next chipsets:
  (including DDR400, AGP 8x, S-ATA information):
  Intel 852GM, 852GME, 852PM, 855GM, 855PM
  Intel 865G, 865P, 865PE, 875P
  Intel E7205, E7501, E7505
  AMD 8000
  Intel 450NX
- differentiates between desktop, notebook, 
  workstation and server chipsets (Intel chipsets
  only)
- Further info about Intel (ICH3/4) and
  AMD chipsets
- detects Core steppings of current Intel processors
- improved CPU detection via Brand-ID (updated) 
- SMBios analysis: extended battery analysis

Bug fix:
- Intel 7500 chipset - DDR DRAM timings
- Bug in SMBios analysis
- Bug in the IDE analysis screen mask


8.0e:
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Detects AMD XP processors (including Thoroughbred), VIA CX3 Samuel 2, Via CX3 
Ezra, Pentium 4 Xeon, IA64, new Pentium III, Celeron and Duron types, 
Athlon MP/Athlon 4  Mobile 
Detailed information for: Intel 830MP, 845, 845D/E, 845G/GL, 860, E7500, 
AMD 760MPX
detects new VIA, SiS, Intel and AMD chipsets
Detection of memory type on numerous new mainboards
detects several hundreds other PCI devices
EIDE analysis: detects capacity above 8 MB, UDMA100/133, AAM setup
updated benchmark reference values
Core stepping on newer Intel CPUs
DDC analysis: improved vendor and model detection

Bug fixes:
Chipset analysis: several minor bugs with Intel chipsets
Support for Compaq devices added (PCI analysis)






7.0e:
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Detailed information for next chipsets: AMD 760/760MP, ALi Aladdin 7, Pro-4, 
Pro-5, TNT2 and ALiMAGiK, Intel 850
detects new chipsets: VIA Apollo Pro266 and KT266, SIS 730 and 740, 
ServerWorks (preliminary support)
detects several hundreds other PCI devices
detects new Intel motherboards
updated L1 cache analysis
SMBios analysis: several enhancements and SMBios 2.3.1 support

Bug fixes:
Mainboard/L2 cache status for VIA VP2/VP3/MVP3 chipsets
Chipset details: RAM count


6.5e:
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- detects Celeron II, AMD Duron, K6-2+, K6-III+, K6-2/CXT, VIA Cyrix III, 
  Pentium 4
- Details for next chipsets:
  Intel 815, 815E, 820E, SIS 540, ALI° Aladdin III, IV, V, Pro 2
- further details for Intel 810/820/840 and several SIS chipsets
- detects Intel 82440MX chipset
- DDC analysis: shows supported frequencies and more info about
  vendor, model and serial number; detects numerous new vendors 
- detects several hundred new PCI devices
- detects more mainboard vendors (a.o. Acer-Boards, AMI board vendors)
- detects L2 cache and memory types for mainbaords with ALI-III/IV/V/Pro-2, 
  SIS540 and Intel 815/815E chipsets
- L2 cache analysis enhancements for newer Intel CPUs
- improved detection of missing and disabled L2 cache
- more info in SMBios analysis (Bios, memory modules)
- more precise VIA MVP3 / VP3 chipset detection
- Dell, Compaq, Gateway, Insyde, Packard-Bell and Intel Bios
  detection, improved detection of the AMI Bios ID

Bugfixes:
- Chipset info for Intel 840: memory count
- memory info for  SIS600 chipset
- SMBios/Ports: Description and connector names



6.0e:
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- detects Pentium III-E/EB with ATC-Cache, IDT C3
- detects lots of new Mainboard vendors (AMI/Award Bios)
- improved detection of von Asustek mainboards
- Chipset details on: Intel 810E, 820, 840; SIS630, SIS530; AMD-750;
  VIA KX133
- Multi processor analysis for up to 8 processors now
- improved "detection" of non-detectable processors
- detects L2 cache on mainboards with SIS530 chipset
- detects hundreds of new PCI devices (e.g. mainboard and video chipsets)
- detects memory types on mainboards with Intel 810E, 820, SIS600, SIS620, AMD-750,
  VIA KX133 chipset



5.6e:
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- detects AMD Athlon processor, Intel Mobile Pentium II
- detects 3DNow!+ Feature
- detects several hundred new PCI devices (e.g. GeForce chipsets)
- detects color depth of further VESA modes
- harddisk analysis: more reliable detection of big harddisks
- corrected detection of Ultra DMA and features on EIDE devices
- detects Windows 98 SE

5.5e:
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Important enhancements:
- detects Pentium III, Rise mP6
- detects new 3D chips 
  (NVidia RIVA TNT2, ATI RAGE LT PRO, 3DFX Voodoo 3, S3 Savage3D, 
   Number Nine Revolution IV, Trident Blade 3D, Matrox G400)
- analyzes new chipsets (Intel 810, SIS600, SIS620, VIA MVP4 and Apollo Pro)
- detects several hundred new PCI devices
- you can now run the program from a bootable floppy disk (simply copy all files 
  besides the online help file DRHARD.DAT)
- no more program termination if temporary benchmark buffers cannot be allocated

Detail enhancements:
- shows Processor Serial Number (if readable)
- detects new CPU features (ISSE, PSN)
- updated EIDE analysis (detects new Ultra/DMA modes), adaptation to ATA-/ATAPI-5
- improved cache analysis 
- detects new PCI device types
- detects Soundblaster AWE64
- detects much more board vendors (on Award Bios systems)
- updated online help

Fixed:
- Type and plug names on ports in the SMBios analysis
- several minor bugs
- parallel port diagnostics messages added (missing messages caused system hangs)
