- Quick specs
- Price: Free to try (75-module eval, free for personal/educational use); $49.99 to buy
- Operating system: Windows Vista, Windows XP
- Date added: September 08, 2008
- Total Downloads: 1,368,024
- Downloads last week: 5,578
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 104 votes
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CNET editors' review
Reviewed by: CNET Staff
Getting detailed system information is easy with this program, but novice users may not understand all the data it provides.
SiSoftware Sandra's tabbed interface starts in the Home tab, which gives easy access to its various functions. In turn, each of the tabs includes numerous options. Fortunately, the demo version doesn't have a time limitation. Despite clearly-labeled functions, tooltips and the Help file, even 30 days wouldn't be long enough to explore everything this program offers. The main tabs include Tools, Benchmarks, Hardware and Software. Within the tab, you'll find the options listed in a tiled fashion, but you can switch the view to show more or less information. You can view comprehensive system information, including manufacturer and version information for hardware and running processes, and loaded DLLs for software.
Where applicable, the application gives you advice for improving system performance. Each of the modules follows the same basic steps, and shares common buttons for basic navigation and operation. Despite the simplicity of using this program and the plain language it uses, it's not for the novice. Users are expected to know what is meant by the advice to check whether the BIOS is shadowed or not. You can generate reports or save the information to the clipboard in most cases. Performance information can be uploaded to the SiSoftware Web site for comparison to other user's information.
Although many of the modules in the Software tab are disabled in the demo version, there's still plenty this program can tell intermediate to advanced users.
Publisher's description
From SiSoftware :SiSoftware Sandra is a 32- and 64-bit Windows system analyzer that includes benchmarking, testing and listing modules. It tries to go beyond other utilities to show you more of what is really going on under the hood so you draw comparisons at both a high and low-level in a single product. You can get information about the CPU, chipset, video adapter, ports, printers, sound card, memory, network, Windows internals, AGP, ODBC Connections, USB2. Version 2009 introduces additional support in the graphics performance space.
What's new in this version:
Version 2009 introduces additional support in the graphics performance space.
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