SiSoft Sandra MAX3 Released
A new version of the synthetic benchmarking utility, SiSoft Sandra has just been released, oddly named "MAX3". Here's the list of additions:
"- Multi-language combined installer (English, French, Nederland, Russian) with more languages to follow.
- Support for AMD Opteron multi-processor architecture (AMD Athlon 64/Opteron CPUs; AMD 8131, SiS 755/760, VIA K8T400/M chipsets; AMD 8111, SiS 963/S/L south bridges; NUMA up to 32/64 nodes; ACPI 2.0; SMBus 2.0)
- Support for Intel Pentium 4 400MHz architecture (Intel P4 2.4-3.2GHz CPUs;Intel 875P, 865P/PE/G chipsets; ICH5/5R south bridges)
- Support for Intel Pentium M mobile architecture (Intel PM 1.3-1.6GHz CPUs; Intel 855PM, 855GM chipsets)
- Support for SiS embedded architecture (SiS 55x SOC)
- Support for Intel Itanium 2 architecture (Intel E8870 chipset; NUMA up to 64 nodes; ACPI 2.0)
- Support for USB 2.0 HiSpeed USB controllers (enhanced EHCI; USB hubs)
- Support for Windows 64-bit XP/2003 IA64 and AMD64 in the 32-bit version through dedicated device drivers ensuring full functionality even under WOW64. The installer seamlessly sets up the correct device driver for the target OS.
- Support for WinSock ports (TCP & UDP) & process bound listing."
We've only come across one mirror so far, and that is at Overclockers Australia . That said, their servers seem to be quite resiliant and should give most of you fairly fast download speeds.
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