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Simple Tool To Find Out What Hardware Your PC Have in Simple Language

Abhishek — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 10:03:12 +0000

Do you want to know the detailed hardware specifications of your computer?

We have already covered a tool called PC Wizard to Know Detailed Hardware Configuration Of Your Computer. Speccy is a new and free tool from Piriform (makers of CC Cleaner – Used for Registry Cleaning) which also does something similar with a simple and easy interface.

The main screen of the tool will show you a summary of the hardware configuration specifications of your computer. There are links on the left hand sidebar panel to know the details of each of the components including:

Operating System
CPU
RAM
Motherboard
Graphics
Hard Drives
Optical Drives
Audio

You can click on any of these links for details of these components. It will also show you various run time details like CPU utilization graphs / memory graphs / memory frequency graphs / temperatures graphs.

Below is the CPU View :

The CPU view has graphs for bus speed, rated bus speed, core average temperature etc. It shows you CPU cores, threads, sockets, technology, specifications, family, supported instruction sets, cache etc etc.

Below is the view of RAM:

RAM view shows Memory type, size, channels, frequency, Latency, CAS / RAS etc. It also shows the serial number, part number etc. for the installed memory slots.

Below is snapshot of Hard Drives View:

It shows Manufacturer info, hard disk info like part number, serial number, volume details, error rates, file system details etc.

All in all, its a small and lightweight tool for checking useful and detailed computer specifications. It can also be used for monitoring purpose for temperature monitoring for gamers and CPU monitoring.

[Download Speccy]

Know Detailed Hardware Configuration of Your Computer

Abhishek — Fri, 30 May 2008 16:01:23 +0000

Trouble:

We recently published a post on checking the details of device drivers installed on your computer, this will help you when you want to upgrade your device drivers, but the trouble arise when:

What if you have no device driver installed for a particular device?

For example : If the audio driver is not installed on your computer and audio is not working, in such a case you can not see any installed driver or version through the post published before.

Well, we also have a fix for this problem. The fix is to first know what is the hardware configuration of your computer, then find a driver for that online. Let see the fix in detail.

Fix:

There are many methods to know the hardware configuration.First way is to get hold of the box or manual which you got with your computer/motherboard.

But if you don’t have that with you, like many of us, there is a easy to use free software utility, called PC Wizard that will tell you all the hardware configuration details of your computer and also the devices attached.

Download PC Wizard 2008 and install it. After installing, run this utility, it will show you the detailed hardware configuration as shown in the image below.

The above picture tells that the sound device installed is Realtek AC97. You can see the Device information and driver information also using the tabs as seen in the image.

Similarly you can see which Ethernet device, or USB devices or web-cameras etc are attached. Once you know the detailed configuration, you can now go to the manufactures’s web-site and download the latest device drivers compatible to your device.