Why is it that people are so deathly afraid of viruses, but perfectly willing to run a program that modifies system settings, and has as much or more potential to harm their system?
I'll give you an example:
Back in 1999 the first program ever written to modify a system's FSB settings called SoftFSB, was written by H.Oda. There was a warning on his page that the software was only for advanced users familiar with the concept of phase locked loops. You had to download a seperate PLL file with specific information on your motherboard to use the program. A year later, H. Oda was forced to remove the program from his website because people were ruining their computers with it. Why? Not because he had written a malicious program, but because users were downloading the wrong PLL files and other silly crap.
Nvidia tools, (which, btw is made by Nvidia) is a very sophisticated piece of software that is capable of altering settings such as FSB and AGP timing, based on detecting specific hardware properties. (did i mention its made by NVIDIA?)
Clockgen uses the patented Panopsys hardware detection system to get the information required to safely overclock your FSB and others in real time. It also has seperate versions for different motherboards. Panopsys Ltd. is an estalblished software firm with many patents and technologies.
Yes, I have read the front page of the chankast utilities home page, it does not make any sense unless it is simply a mis-translation:
-"what it does is that it decreases the refresh time" The refresh time of what?
-"it doesn't exactly improve the speed of your pc though" But it DOES!
-"Each program has a delay time, not the same as frame skip, between each frame." I have never written anything like this into a program of mine, it would slow it down, why would the Chankast developers?
-"What he does is, he improves the time up time." There is no such thing as the tooth fairy.
I have already disassembled "speedpig.dll" (next time try something more secure than UPX), and I can safely say that it does not interface with chankast_alpha.exe at any point. In fact the only modification to chankast_alpha.exe made in the installation of Chankast Utilities is to a program resource that controls the menu. This would lead me to believe that the program has alot in common with Nvidia tools and clockgen in that they are all FSB overclockers, not Chankast hacks. In this case I would recommend Nvidia tools and clockgen because they are both reputable programs, that are proven safe. If this program is a FSB overclocker, why didn't Kryso advertise it as so?
I'm not going to mention what the dangers of realtime FSB overclocking are, as i already have on the forum at the Chankast Utilities page:
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Also, please stop believing what unknown software developers claim about their software! The program may be perfectly safe on his computer, and he may not know that it may be potentially harmful to people with a motherboard different than his own. Or he might, and is simply pushing for popularity and notoriety.
I have added breakpoints to speedpig.dll, and I'm working with a realtime debugger at the moment to try and find out what the slider exactly does. Hopefully soon i will have more info.