New system information utility

I was glad to see on the MG front page a couple days ago (on Jan 24 to be exact) the program Speccy. It's a free system info tool along the lines of Everest and it's from the fine folks over at Piriform (the dudes behind CCleaner and Defraggler and some other fine FREE apps) and it's a great system info tool. It's still in beta so it isn't 100% totally accurate yet (it picks up my GTX260 as having 192 shaders when it actually has 216), but it's pretty freekin' cool, and there's a portable version available at the Speccy home page (scroll down to the bottom of that page for the download link). One drawback: it doesn't save a hardware report in a standard TXT format; it uses it's own 'Speccy' format so you can only open the report with Speccy (I tried opening it with numerous other text editors/readers to no avail). Check it out!
:-D

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(OK- Speccy isn't exactly new, it's been around for a while, but it's new to being available here at MG )

 

I tried it out too & it has a nice interface but the lack of being able to save a report is a downer. Aida32 is very good at that or SIW - they seems to have more 'data' about the system.

 

Call me old-fashioned, but I still find msinfo32 run on a command line with output redirected into a text file quite useful.
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/300887

 

Speccy's decent, this one is much better and you can save in .txt format.

http://majorgeeks.com/PC_Wizard_d3846.html