News archive 2009

12/04/2008 Version 5.41 of the ASTRA has been released

New in the version 5.41:

- Added support of SMBIOS 2.6 standard
- Added detection of HD DVD-R DL, HD DVD-RW, HD DVD-RW DL write features
- Added reading of SPD information on Intel P55 chipset, VIA VX800/VX820 chipset, VIA VT8237S, nVidia MCP73/MCP78/MCP79 south bridges
- Added detection of Intel Quad-Core Xeon (Gainestown), Intel Dual-Core Xeon (Gainestown), Intel Core i7 Extreme, Intel Core 2 Quad Mobile, Pentium Dual-Core (Wolfdale), Intel Core 2 Solo (Penryn), Celeron M (Penryn)
- Fixed detection of AMD Family 11h processors
- Fixed detection of Intel Atom clock multiplier
- Some minor bugs fixed
- Updated program database

12/04/2008 Version 2.01 of the ASTRA32 for Windows has been released. Click here to learn more about ASTRA32 for Windows.

07/31/2008 Version 5.40 of the ASTRA has been released

New in the version 5.40:

- Added reading of SPD information on SiS 662 chipset
- Added detection of Intel Nehalem-EX, Intel Xeon MP (Dunnington), Intel Atom (Diamondville, Silverthorne), AMD Opteron (Shanghai), AMD Phenom (Deneb, Propus, Heka, Regor), AMD Phenom X3, AMD Athlon X2 (Brisbane), AMD Athlon 64 X2 (Lion), AMD Athlon 64 (Richmond), AMD Athlon (Orleans), AMD Sempron X2, AMD Sempron (Keene, Sable), AMD Mobile Sempron (Sherman), AMD Turion 64 X2 Ultra, AMD Turion 64 X2 (Lion) processors
- Improved support of VIA C7 processor
- Added detection of new processors features: FMA Instructions Set, AES Instructions Set, Advanced Vector Extensions (AVX), Dynamic Acceleration Technology, MOVBE Insruction Supported, PCLMULQDQ Instruction Supported, XSAVE Insructions Supported, OS Supports XSAVE Instructions
- Fixed program hang-up during SCSI detection on some configuration
- Some minor bugs fixed
- Updated program database

07/31/2008 Version 2.00 of the ASTRA32 for Windows has been released. Click here to learn more about ASTRA32 for Windows.

02/21/2008 Version 5.35 of the ASTRA has been released

New in the version 5.35:

- Added reading of SPD information on Intel ICH10 hub and nVidia MCP67 south bridge
- Added report of chipset code name
- Added detection of memory modules max case temperature
- Added detection of Intel Quad-Core Xeon (Yorkfield), Intel Dual-Core Xeon (Wolfdale, Wolfdale DP), Intel Core 2 Extreme (Penryn), Intel Celeron Dual-Core, Celeron (Yonah), VIA Isaiah processors
- Added detection of new processors features: Intel Trusted Execution Technology, 64-bit Debug Store
- Improved support of AMD Phenom family processor
- Fixed support of DDR2-1066 memory modules
- Updated program database

02/21/2008 Version 1.56 of the ASTRA32 for Windows has been released. Click here to learn more about ASTRA32 for Windows.

News archive 2007