Good freeware system diagnostic tool?

UltimaGeckoUltimaGecko hates endnotes Join Date: 2003-05-14 Member: 16320Members
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<div class="IPBDescription">...like dxdiag...except, you know, good</div>For a long while I was using AIDA32, but about a year or two ago that stopped being updated, and so my main means of obtaining cool information about my computer(s) has been hampered for quite a while now. It was one of those cool tools I used to find out what kind of RAM I should buy to upgrade my computer - unfortunately, since it doesn't work anymore (or mostly, it still identifies some stuff), I don't have a cool diagnostic/system analysis program. Since some people around here manage to find very obscure (and oftentimes not obscure) freeware and such, I was wondering if anybody had any sort of recommendations.


Personally I'm looking for something that can tell me specifically what speed RAM is running at, the bus speed, CAS latency; FSB for the CPU, and lot of other useful information (although at the moment I'm a bit focused on RAM, so that's where all my examples are from).

So, anybody got any cool programs lying around?
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  • semipsychoticsemipsychotic Join Date: 2003-07-09 Member: 18061Members
    If you're looking to upgrade the RAM on a system you got from a vendor like Dell, some manufacturers have a search feature on their websites (<a href="http://www.kingston.com/" target="_blank">Kingston</a>, for example) that can find compatible memory. It's not nearly as fun as getting a program to do the analysis, but it can be a good temporary solution.
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  • illhillh Join Date: 2004-08-31 Member: 31104Members
    CPUID is pretty good, although for checking what ram your board can use... why can't you just check your mobo's site? (lazy?) Anyways, the link for it is <a href="http://www.cpuid.org/cpuz.php" target="_blank">here</a>
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  • TychoCelchuuuTychoCelchuuu Anememone Join Date: 2002-03-23 Member: 345Members
    SiSoft Sandra.
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  • TheGuyTheGuy Join Date: 2003-08-09 Member: 19295Members, Constellation
    <a href="http://www.cpuid.com/pcwizard.php" target="_blank">http://www.cpuid.com/pcwizard.php</a>


    PC WIZARD would be the more advanced version of cpu-z. CPU-Z = small and needs no install and pc wizard shows way more information but needs to be installed
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  • TykjenTykjen Join Date: 2003-01-21 Member: 12552Members, Reinforced - Shadow
    ill definatly second Sisoft Sandra, a more complete analyzer is hard to come by.
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  • SvenpaSvenpa Wait, what? Join Date: 2004-01-03 Member: 25012Members, Constellation
    Everest, very similiar to sisoft sandra but better, at least here it showed correct hardware then sandra.
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