Display the most important hardware and software information about a PC.
GFXplorer is a software designed to allow its user to find, or just to have at hand, all the most important technical information, both hardware and software, of a PC. Thanks to the tabs based user interface and the various categories available, all the information are easy and fast to read, and if reading is not enough: you can export all the information in a common plain text file (TXT) or Rich Text file (RTF) to be viewed anywhere and by anyone without being in front of the interested PC; whenever the need arises, receiving technical support or help on a forum or via e-mail is a lot easier with detailed information of your system. In addition, the Tools tab provides direct access to a wide range of Windows utilities, useful should you need to do a quick maintenance. Here's what GFXplorere can retrieve: Information about Windows: Name, version, architecture, bulid type and major update or service pack installed; DirectX and .Net Framework versions; Usable\visible and free RAM, virtual memory and system folders. Information about the Central Processing Unit (CPU): Manufacturer and digital signature; Processor model; Technical data about the Architecture, Family, Model and Stepping; Current and base operative clock frequency; Socket type, Cache memory and number of cores (physical \ logical). Information about the system memory (RAM): Size, speed and type of each bank of RAM installed; Total installed RAM. Information about the Motherboard (MB): Motherboard model and manufacturer; BIOS type, version and release date. Information about video and audio: GPU (Video card) model\s and its VRAM; Monitor\s screen resolution; Audio adapter\s. Information about drives and storage: Partition\s list and label\s; File System (per partition); Available and total space (per partition); Storage device\s list and id; Connection interface (per device); Firmware version (per device); Number of partitions (per device); Total storage capacity (per device); Technical data about Sectors, Tracks and Cylinders (per device).
Gives good info on your PC and ways to make changes really easy. It has lots of tools to check and change things about your system to help it run better and take some of the load off by stopping lots of the programs that don't need to be running.
Some really good tweaks too!
Cons
None that I see
Summary
Its easy to use, gives the info you need on your PC and can help do lots of other good things for your PC. I'd recommend this to intermediate PC users.
Simple and very effective
Jympton2
Pros
Easy to understand, fast and problem-free
Cons
None that I can see
Summary
Told me more about my computer than anything I've tried so far