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12/19/2012 Version 3.02 of the ASTRA32 has been released

New in the version 3.02:

- Added reading of SPD information on Intel Lynx Point-LP chipset
- Added detection of Intel Core i3 (Ivy Bridge), Intel Pentium (Ivy Bridge), Intel Celeron (Ivy Bridge), Intel Atom (Cloverview), AMD Opteron (Abu Dhabi), AMD Opteron (Seoul), AMD Opteron (Delhi), AMD FirePro processors
- Improved MS Windows 8 support
- Fixed program crash while saving the INI report in some rare cases
- Some minor bugs fixed
- Updated program database

07/18/2012 Version 3.01 of the ASTRA32 has been released

New in the version 3.01:

- Added information about family release date, transistor count, die size of AMD processors
- Added alphabetical sorting of installed programs list and installed hotfixes list
- Added detection of Intel Core i5 Mobile (Ivy Bridge) processor
- Added preliminary support of AMD Kaveri processor
- Fixed hardware monitoring of nVidia video cards
- Fixed detection of Intel Pentium Mobile (Sandy Bridge) processor
- Some minor bugs fixed
- Updated program database

05/29/2012 Version 3.00 of the ASTRA32 has been released

New in the version 3.00:

- Added hardware monitoring of processor (temperature, voltage, clocks), video card (temperature, voltage, fan speed, clocks, usage), disk drives (temperature, host writes, host reads)
- Added detection of processor temperature and voltage
- Added detection of video card temperature, voltage, fan speed, clocks and usage (nVidia, ATI/AMD)
- Added detection of expected (not-overclocked) clock of AMD processors
- Added detection of Max Turbo Clock of processors with AMD Turbo Core Technology
- Added detection of AMD processor MaxTDP
- Added detection of Intel QPI (QuickPath Interconnect) Speed
- Added detailed information about HyperTransport (frequency, version, width)
- Added detection of AMD northbridge clock and voltage
- Added calculation of Host Reads parameter on SSD devices
- Added detection of Intel Xeon (Ivy Bridge), Core i5 (Ivy Bridge), Core i7 Mobile Extreme (Ivy Bridge), Core i7 Mobile (Ivy Bridge), AMD Opteron (Zurich), AMD R Series, AMD Geode NX processors
- Added detection of new processors features: Hardware Lock Elision, Restricted Transactional Memory, Power Limit Notification, Extended Clock Modulation Duty, Package Thermal Management, Hardware Coordination Feedback, ACNT2 Capability, Performance-Energy Bias, Supervisor Mode Execution Protection, (RD/WR)(FS/GS) BASE Instructions, Bit Manipulation 1 Instructions, Bit Manipulation 2 Instructions, Advanced Vector Extensions 2 (AVX2), Enhanced REP MOVSB/STOSB, INVPCID Instruction, XSAVEOPT Instruction
- Added preliminary support of AMD FX series (Vishera) processors
- Improved support of Intel Ivy Bridge, Intel Sandy Bridge, Intel Sandy Bridge-E, Intel Westmere-EX family and Intel Atom (Cedarview) processors
- Improved support of AMD Trinity family, AMD Family 15h, AMD Geode LX processors
- Fixed detection of 4 GB DDR3 memory modules
- Fixed detection of clock multiplier of AMD Family 12h, AMD Family 14h, AMD Family 6 Mobile processors
- Some minor bugs fixed
- Updated program database

03/20/2012 Version 2.13 of the ASTRA32 has been released

New in the version 2.13:

- 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

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