LAVAL, CANADA (March 20, 2008) – Lavalys today announced the general availability of version 4.50 of its flagship products EVEREST Corporate Edition "The multi-functional toolkit for Network Audit and IT Assets Management" and EVEREST Ultimate Edition "The cutting-edge PC benchmarking and PC diagnostics tool designed for both professionals and home enthusiasts".
This release improves upon EVEREST’s already impressive set of tools with some brand new features and a long list of enhancements in direct response to customer feedback. Under the hood, version 4.50 continues the long tradition of accuracy and comprehensiveness brought by previous versions with support for all the latest hardware technology bringing the total number of supported devices over 68,000.

These new features and enhancements include

Benchmarking

• CPU and FPU benchmarks to support 3-core and 6-core processors.
• Disk Benchmark can now do disk write tests under Windows Vista.

System Stability

• Revamped System Stability Test module that will be able to stress and provide insight about your system’s CPU and memory like never before.

Motherboards

• Support for the Intel Skulltrail platform
• Support for Intel 5400, Cantiga and G35 chipsets
• Support for AMD 740G/780G chipsets
• Support for nVIDIA nForce 750i/780i/790i chipsets.
• Support for SiS 672 chipset

Graphics

• Support for ATI Radeon HD 34xx/36xx and Radeon HD 3870 X2 family of graphics processors.
• Support for nVIDIA GeForce 8800 GS, GeForce 8800 GTS 512, GeForce 9300M G, GeForce 9500M GS and GeForce 9800 GX2 family of graphics processors.

Other

• Support for Enhanced Performance Profiles 2.0.
• Support for Microsoft Windows PE v2.
• Support for PCI Express 2.0 controllers and devices.
• Temperature readout for FB-DIMM memory modules.
• ATA auto-detect and SMART information for USB and FireWire hard disk drives behind Cypress, JMicron and Oxford bridge chips.

Major Bug Fixes

• Crash during ACPI tables enumeration
• SQL database communication and timeout issues (applies to CE only!)
• Disk Benchmark: disk write tests under Windows Vista
• Lockup on DFI LANParty and Infinity motherboards, and MSI MegaBook notebooks
• Removing Auto Start Registry entries under 64-bit Windows
• Support for PCI Express 2.0 controllers and devices
• SPD information for DDR3 memory modules with bad SPD CRC

Click here for a more detailed list and screen shots of the new features.

• EVEREST Corporate Edition v4.50
• EVEREST Ultimate Edition v4.50

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