RightMark Clock Utility, version 1.3. README

Copyright (C) 2004 RightMark Gathering / iXBT.com




Genral Information

WARNING: Your system may lock up as a result of FID/VID change, overclocking/over-voltage of the "unlocked" CPU, as well as tweaking with CPU-specific settings. The developers team, the RightMark Gathering and/or iXBT.com are not responsible for any damage that may result from the usage of this utility!

Features



Supported Environment

Processors

Current release of RMClock utility implements the determination of CPU frequency, load and throttling level on:

In addition, dynamic FID/VID transitions are supported on:

RMClock utility will run on unsupported CPU models as well, however, in this case, most of its functionality will be unavailable.

Motherboards

Operating systems



Usage Notes



Compatibility

CPU Power Management drivers/software

RMClock is compatible with AMD Cool`n'Quiet / PowerNow! and Enhanced Intel SpeedStep software. There's no need to uninstall existing processor driver, however, for best effect, the power-saving features of this driver should be disabled when the driver is used together with RMClock in auto-management mode. That is, current power scheme (in Windows control panel) should be set to "Home/Office Desk" or "Always On".

Performance analyzing software

Since RMClock relies upon CPU-specific performance monitoring counters (PMC) to monitor the CPU usage level, compatibility issues are possible with application performance analyzing software like Intel VTune, which uses the same counters to monitor the processor-specific performance events. Therefore, you should exit RMClock utility before using this kind of software.

Benchmarking software

As with any power-saving features, the auto-management feature of RMClock should be disabled before running benchmarking software, otherwise you may get incorrect benchmark results.



Revision History

RMClock Version 1.3

RMClock Version 1.2

AMD64CLK Version 1.1

AMD64CLK Version 1.0



Feedback

Please, send you feedback to Dmitri Besedin, the main program developer.