Speccy

Piriform's Speccy is an awesome little system information utility. Its mission is to accumulate as well as present more-detailed details regarding your equipment and also its efficiency than is provided by Windows, even the most recent versions. It reveals the brand name, model, variation, motorist, documents, place, capability, running condition, as well as various other information about your system's CPU, motherboard, RAM, graphics card, drive, optical drives, sound, peripherals, network, as well as operating system. It also presents the temperature level of suitable equipment.

Speccy's sleek dialog, gray tones, and also little yet crisp and vibrant icons give a modern want to the familiar Windows interface. The left-hand navigating window lists Summary, which offers a helpful system summary, in addition to CPU, RAM, and more. Clicking anything contacts a much more in-depth view of the element's operating conditions and data. Speccy has few settings past language and also temperature level (Fahrenheit or Celsius). The Help data links to an item Websites, however it's greater than appropriate, and also Speccy's about as very easy to utilize as any kind of program out there; it simply shows you what's going on with your PC. Our favorite function by far is the temperature display screen. It accurately displayed sensor information from the CPU and also 2 hard drives, using calming evidence that our disks and also CPU were all running well within their rated temperature range; the dual-core Pentium 4 in our testbed ran at an icy 37 levels C. It also displayed S.M.A.R.T. data from our hard drives. We additionally such as the ability to save as well as refill system "Snapshots" as XML or text files, and even optional INI data.

Piriform's free software has actually excited us with its value, as well as Speccy fits the type. Though we've seen great deals of system information utilities as well as also discover the Windows attribute useful, Speccy looks like a caretaker.