nvidia System Tools
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| nVidia nTune 5.05.38.00 | |
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Nvidia Control Panel running under Windows XP. | |
| Developer(s) | nVidia |
| Operating system | Windows XP Windows Vista |
| Type | Overclocking Monitoring |
| License | Freeware |
| Website | nTune |
NVIDIA nTune 5 is a utility for accessing, monitoring, and adjusting your system components, including temperature and voltages with clear, user-friendly control panels.
nTune seeks to simplify this process - it will automatically adjust settings and test them to find the optimal combination of settings for a particular computer hardware configuration. Everything including the GPU, CPU, MCP, RAM, Voltage and Fans are adjusted. During the nForce 4 briefing, nVIDIA stated that there were no limitations in place with regards to settings - nTune should push the hardware as far as it will go while going through "thousands of possible configurations"[This quote needs a citation].
Configurations can also be saved. This allows the end user to toggle between a performance gaming profiles, quiet profiles for desktop work or some other profile that is usage specific. The point is that there is an easy way to change the characteristics of the computer without having to change twenty different settings from within the BIOS.
nTune is also a front end for the BIOS - everything that can be changed in the BIOS should be exposed in nTune. BIOS flashes can be done through nTune also.
Supported nTune motherboards:
- nForce 220, nForce 220D, nForce 415 and nForce 420D
- nForce2 and nForce2 400
- nForce2 Ultra and nForce2 Ultra 400
- nForce2 400R and nForce2 Ultra 400Gb
- nForce3 150 and nForce3 PRO 150
- nForce3 250, nForce3 250Gb and nForce3 PRO 250
- nForce4 Pro 2200, nForce4 Ultra, and nForce4 SLI
- nForce 590 SLI, nForce 570 SLI, nForce 570 Ultra and nForce 550
- nForce 680a SLI, nForce 680i SLI, nForce 650i SLI and nForce 650i Ultra
nTune 5 doesn't have features promised in nTune 2.0 used for nForce 2 motherboards.