06/22/2010 Version 2.06 of the ASTRA32 has been released

New in the version 2.06:

- Added reading of SPD information on nVidia MCP89 south bridge
- Added detection of Intel Xeon (Clarkdale), Intel Xeon (Gulftown), Intel Xeon (Beckton), Intel Xeon (Jasper Forest), Intel Pentium Mobile (Arrandale), Intel Celeron (Jasper Forest), AMD Phenom II X6, AMD Phenom II X4 (Zosma), AMD Phenom II Mobile, AMD Turion II, AMD Turion II Neo, AMD Athlon II Mobile, AMD Athlon II Mobile Neo, AMD V1xx Series processors
- Fixed detection of Intel Quade-Core Xeon (Dunnington) processor
- Fixed program hang-up during S.M.A.R.T. test in some rare cases
- Some minor bugs fixed
- Updated program database

02/08/2010 Version 2.05 of the ASTRA32 has been released

New in the version 2.05:

- Added Portuguese language support
- Added calculation of Host Writes parameter on Intel SSD
- Added support of Intel SSD S.M.A.R.T. parameters
- Added detection of Max Turbo Clock of processors with Intel Dynamic Acceleration Technology.
- Added detection of Intel Core i7 Mobile (Arrandale), Intel Core i5 Mobile, Intel Core i3 Mobile, Intel Atom (Pineview), AMD Athlon II processors
- Improved support of Intel Lynnfield/Clarksfield family processors
- Fixed detection of Core i5 (Clarkdale), Core i3, Pentium (Clarkdale) processors
- Some minor bugs fixed
- Updated program database

10/26/2009 Version 2.04 of the ASTRA32 has been released

New in the version 2.04:

- Added support of SMBIOS 2.6.1 standard
- Improved DDR3 memory modules support
- Added detection of Intel Quad-Core Xeon (Lynnfield), Intel Core i9, Intel Core i5 (Clarkdale), Intel Core i3, Intel Core i7 Mobile, Intel Core i7 Mobile Extreme Edition, Intel Pentium (Clarkdale), Intel Celeron (Wolfdale), AMD Opteron (Magny-Cours), AMD Athlon II Dual-Core, AMD Athlon Neo X2, AMD Athlon X2 (Conesus), AMD Athlon (Sable), AMD Athlon (Huron), AMD Turion II Ultra Dual-Core Mobile, AMD Turion II Dual-Core Mobile, AMD Turion Neo X2, AMD Turion X2 (Conesus), AMD Sempron X2, AMD Sempron (Conesus), DM&P Vortex86DX, DM&P Vortex86MX
- Some minor bugs fixed
- Updated program database

06/17/2009 Version 2.03 of the ASTRA32 has been released

New in the version 2.03:

- Added support of DDR3 memory modules
- Added detection of Intel Dual-Core Xeon (Bloomfield), Intel Quad-Core Xeon (Bloomfield), AMD Six-Core Opteron
- Added detection of memory modules manufacturing location for some vendors
- Some minor bugs fixed
- Updated program database

03/31/2009 Version 2.02 of the ASTRA32 has been released

New in the version 2.02:

- Added detection of Intel Lynnfield, AMD Opteron (Santa Rosa), AMD Athlon (Lima), AMD Athlon Neo, AMD Sempron Dual Core (Tyler), AMD Sempron (Huron)
- Added Insyde BIOS for Acer support
- Added new command line switch /C - specify comment
- Fixed program hang-up on Intel Core i7 based computers
- Some minor bugs fixed
- Updated program database

12/04/2008 Version 2.01 of the ASTRA32 has been released

New in the version 2.01:

- 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
- Fixed the error 'File astra32.dat not found' appearing on some computers
- Some minor bugs fixed
- Updated program database

07/31/2008 Version 2.00 of the ASTRA32 has been released

New in the version 2.00:

- Added multilingual support. English and Russian languages are supported
- 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
- Added new command line switch /LL - load language file
- Fixed program hang-up during ASPI detection on some configuration
- Some minor bugs fixed
- Updated program database

02/21/2008 Version 1.56 of the ASTRA32 has been released

New in the version 1.56:

- 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
- Added new command line switch /SKIPSERVER - do not run the program on a server operating system
- Fixed support of DDR2-1066 memory modules
- Updated program database

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