Version history

Version   Release date  
(MM/DD/YYYY)
News and corrections
2.1.05 02/02/2012
  • Bug from version 2.1.04 fixed that could cause Argus Monitor to prevent the system from shutting down in certain situations.
2.1.04 01/27/2012
  • Support for Intel i7-39xx Series (Sandy Bridge-E) added.
  • Bug fixed that could cause setting wrong GPU fan speeds when using fan control features on systems with more than one ATI graphics card.
2.1.03 12/27/2011
  • Decoding of S.M.A.R.T. attributes - lifetime reads / writes from host - for OCZ SSDs added.
  • Fixed a bug with wrong FSB frequency display for AMD Llano / A-Series CPU.
  • Changed and improved internal handling for warning and net messages.
  • Some minor bugs fixed.
2.1.02 12/05/2011
  • Support for AMD FX/Bulldozer added.
  • Update notification for sidebar gadget moved (it's now displayed directly in the gadget).
  • Optional display of CPU socket temperature in CPU graph and overview graph.
  • Display of all core temperatures as numerical values in the overview tab for 6 and 8 core CPUs-
  • Display of the highest CPU core temperature in the overview graph .
  • Online documentation created.
2.1.01 11/07/2011
  • Option to define a temperature calibration offset for CPU temperature added.
  • Customizable tray icon font, background and colors.
  • Display of CPU load and CPU speed display in seperate tray icons.
  • Support for serveral ASRock mainboards with 6 fan connectors added.
  • Tjmax value for Intel Core2 Duo Processor T7000 Series corrected.
  • Serveral minor bugfixes and improvements.
2.0.17 10/05/2011
  • Driver performance optimization.
2.0.16 09/02/2011
  • Temperature labels added to tab 'Overview' for all CPU cores.
  • Option to hide fan or temperature graphs from tab 'Mainboard' tab.
  • Help tooltips for S.M.A.R.T. values added.
  • Option to limit how many email warning notifications per warning category will be sent within one day.
  • Optional email notification added, if critical S.M.A.R.T. values change.
  • Bug fixed, that affected GPU fan speed controller performance on systems with two GPUs.
2.0.15 08/14/2011
  • Fan control support for Nuvoton NCT6771F, NCT6775F, NCT6776F monitoring chips.
2.0.14 08/01/2011
  • Fixed a bug with wrong multiplier display on AMD Fusion / Brazos processor.
  • Added temperature display for Radeon GPU on AMD Fusion / Brazos processor.
  • Added support for Fintek 71808A SuperIO chip.
  • Changed display for AMD Phenom to show all core temperatures even though there is only one CPU temperature sensor.
2.0.13 07/21/2011
  • RAM load for sidebar gadget.
  • Fan speed control for DELL notebooks.
  • Fan speed control for Thinkpad notebooks.
2.0.12 07/01/2011
  • Implemented mainboard temperature readout for several monitoring chips.
  • Display of fan speeds for Thinkpad notebooks added.
2.0.11 06/02/2011
  • Additonal menu button in main form for quick menu access.
  • Display of fan speeds for DELL notebooks added.
2.0.10 05/12/2011
  • Added display of RAM usage to the statusbar.
  • Fixed a recent bug which would prevent some USB drives from ejecting.
2.0.09 04/27/2011
  • Feature for adjusting the automatic acoustic management (AAM) on magnetic hard disk drives implemented.
2.0.08 04/20/2011
  • Some minor bugs fixed.
2.0.07 04/16/2011
  • Additional advanced GPU information like core and memory clock, GPU load and GPU fan speed control based on GPU temperature for Nvidia GeForce 500 series added.
2.0.06 04/03/2011
  • Internal redesign of measured data and display releated functions.
2.0.05 03/28/2011
  • Argus Monitor Benchmark: redesign of the random read/write 4KB / 64 Threads part to meassure the transfer rate on multichannel SSDs like Intel X25-M SSD more accurately.
2.0.04 03/19/2011
  • Several minor bugs fixed.
2.0.03 03/12/2011
  • Display of Turbo Core features (multipliers, frequency) on AMD Phenom Turbo Core processors.
  • Fixed a bug where some AMD Phenom CPUs would display the frequency or the multipliers incorrectly.
2.0.02 03/05/2011
  • Fixed a bug with GPU fan speed control for certain Dual GPU configurations.
2.0.01 02/11/2011
  • GPU fan speed control based on GPU temperature for AMD/ATI Radeon HD4xxx-HD6xxx series and Nvidia GeForce 8xxx series to 400 series.
  • Store/Load of user defined profiles for fan speed control.
1.9.02 02/03/2011
  • Support for ATI/AMD Radeon HD5900 series graphic cards added.
1.9.01 01/16/2011
  • Additional advanced GPU information like core and memory clock, GPU load and the possibility to control fan speed for Nvidia cards.
1.8.17 01/06/2011
  • Support for Intel Matrix RAID controllers (ICHx chipsets).
1.8.16 12/14/2010
  • Samsung hard disk drives models HD204UI and HD155UI excluded from S.M.A.R.T. access due to unstable firmware.
  • Test button for S.M.A.R.T. warning dialog added.
  • Several minor bugs fixed.
1.8.15 12/01/2010
  • Windows Sidebar Gadget introduced.
1.8.14 11/08/2010
  • Fixed a bug where writing the log file would fail in certain situations.
1.8.13 11/06/2010
  • Option for generating a log file or CSV file for logging temperature and fan rpm values and S.M.A.R.T. events.
1.8.12 10/31/2010
  • GPU temperature sensor support for Intel Core i3/i5 processors with integrated graphics (Clarkdale processors).
  • GPU temperature sensor support for Intel mobile chipsets with integrated graphics (Intel Graphics Media Accelerator).
  • Fan control support for Winbond W83667 HG-A.
1.8.11 10/16/2010
  • Detection of core count on certain systems corrected.
  • Phenom unleashing mode detection fixed.
1.8.10 10/15/2010
  • Control of system fan speeds on mainboards with Winbond and Fintek SuperIO chip.
1.8.09 10/04/2010
  • Temperature channel auto-detection for system without digital thermal CPU sensors.
1.8.08 10/01/2010
  • Using mainboard SuperIO chip as CPU temperature source on systems with activated AMD core unlocking mode.
1.8.07 09/25/2010
  • Added support for hard disk drives with non-standard sector sizes (e.g. 1024 or 4096 bytes per sector).
1.8.06 09/24/2010
  • Fixed a bug which prevented successful installation on Windows XP.
1.8.05 09/23/2010
  • Changed enumeration scheme for all displayed hardware devices to zero based enumeration.
  • Fixed a bug where writing the configuration data would fail on some Windows Unicode paths.
  • Configurable time interval for S.M.A.R.T. check.
1.8.04 09/21/2010
  • Dual CPU support.
  • Filter for invalid S.M.A.R.T. data added.
1.8.03 09/08/2010
  • Changed Tjmax value for certain Intel Atom CPUs, resulting in a more accurate temperature meassurement.
1.8.02 09/01/2010
  • Automatic update feature introduced
  • Fixed incorrect temperature display on certain Intel Core 2 CPUs
1.8.01 08/15/2010
  • Control of system fan speeds on mainboards with ITE87xx SuperIO chips.
1.7.07 07/11/2010
  • Display of system fan speeds.
1.7.05 06/14/2010
  • Several minor bugs fixed.
1.7.02 06/03/2010
  • Support for some ATI/AMD Radeon HD5xxx Mobility graphic cards added.
1.7.01 05/30/2010
  • Additional advanced GPU information like core and memory clock, GPU load and the possibility to control fan speed.
  • Display of history values in graph legend.
1.6.03 05/12/2010
  • Display of maximum temperature value since start of program.
  • Several minor bugs fixed.
1.6.02 04/24/2010
  • New warning option for 'low disk space' added.
1.6.01 04/22/2010
  • Several warning options added (threshold for CPU temperature, GPU temperature, HDD temperature and if the hard disk drive health status suggests the failure of a hard disk drive in the near future).
  • Possible warning methods: by email, by playing a sound file (WAV/MP3), by showing a dialog box or by the execution of a user defined program.
1.5.12 04/04/2010
  • Bug in display interface for users with non-standard / large Windows font size fixed.
1.5.11 03/27/2010
  • Support for Intel's 6-core processor Core i7-980X (Gulftown) added.
1.5.10 03/19/2010
  • Support for reading HDD SMART information for a number of Nvidia nForce HDD controllers.
1.5.02 03/08/2010
  • Support for ATI/AMD Radeon HD5600 / HD5400 series (5450, 5670) added.
  • Several minor bugs fixed.
1.5.01 02/20/2010
  • Argus Monitor Disk Benchmark introduced, a set of various HDD tests suitable for magnetic and SSD Disks.
  • Online Database for Disk Benchmark results.
1.2.02 01/19/2010
  • Support for Intel Clarkdale und Westmere processors added.
1.2.01 01/10/2010
  • Official support for 64bit operating system added.
1.1.18 12/29/2009
  • Display of the partition alignment (useful for users of solid state disks (SSD)).
  • Several minor bugs fixed.
1.1.16 12/14/2009
  • Support for several SuperIO Chips added (CPU Temperature for AMD K7 and Intel Pentium M and Pentium 4 processors).
  • Workaround for faulty temperature diodes of AMD K8 Brisbane CPUs.
1.1.15 11/25/2009
  • Display of Turbo Boost features (multipliers, frequency) on Intels new Nehalem processor microarchitecture
1.1.14 11/09/2009
  • Initial support for ATI/AMD Radeon HD5xxx (5750, 5750, 5850, 5870) series.
  • Support for temperature monitoring of multi GPU setups added (AMD/ATI X2 series/Crossfire and NVIDIA SLI).
  • SSD specific SMART attributes and information added.
1.1.12 10/30/2009
  • Initial Intel Core i5 CPU support.
  • Option to display CPU and GPU temperature in system tray.
  • Intel Atom CPU temperature and frequency calculation improved.
  • Support for some more ATI Radeon HD4000 graphic cards added.
1.1.11 10/22/2009
  • Fixed a driver bug on some Pentium M mainboards.
1.1.10 10/20/2009
  • Display of extended drive information added.
1.1.03 10/08/2009
  • First version with SSD support.
1.1.01 09/14/2009
  • S.M.A.R.T. support for a number of USB external drive enclosure added.
  • Optimization of drive managment routines.
  • AMD K10 Phenom - reduced the core temperature graphs to one graph since the Phenom K10 chip supports only one temperature sensor.
1.0.20 09/02/2009
  • Added support for ATI/AMD HD3xxx und HD4xxx series.
  • New method for reading GPU temperatures for NVidia cards.
1.0.09 08/22/2009
  • Support for ATI/AMD RV670 GPU (e.g. HD3850) added.
  • Temperature measuremt of Intel Mobile processors improved.
1.0.08 08/15/2009
  • Bug in graphical display fixed.
  • Some design changes.
1.0.07 07/24/2009
  • Core frequency measurement for some mobile processors improved.
1.0.06 05/14/2009
  • Core frequency measurement support for AMD CPUs added.
1.0.05 04/15/2009
  • Core frequency measurement implemented.
1.0.04 03/20/2009
  • Support for Intel Core i7 and i5 added.
1.0.03 02/22/2009
  • Added support for ATI/AMD GPUs.
1.0.02 01/30/2009
  • Added support for AMD Athlon
    & Phenom processors.
1.0.00 01/14/2009
  • Initial release.