System Spec displays a lot of the basic hardware information on its main window, and by clicking on the icons across the top, more in depth details are available for components such as CPU, memory, sound, USB etc. Download the Slim version from the Builds page to avoid the installer that comes with a toolbar option. Speccy is available with installer and portable versions and works on Windows XP to 8 32-bit and 64-bit. Clicking any animated green bar pops up a larger graph for more accuracy. In addition to displaying easy to read yet informative details about your system’s hardware, any related clock speeds and frequencies are also present, as are active temperature readings for components with a thermal sensor. Piriform’s Speccy does exactly what it’s other tools like CCleaner, Defraggler and Recuva do, and that’s to give you relevant information and not over complicate things.
Here’s a selection of freeware tools to help you extract the information you’re looking for.
Thankfully there are several around that can handle this and can range from giving you a general overview of the system components, to comprehensive in depth details of a single component such as the CPU or graphics card. For a much better idea relating to the specification of yours or somebody else’s computer hardware, a 3rd party utility is the way to go. It can be frustrating when you’re troubleshooting and ask someone if they can tell you something like how much or what speed RAM they have installed, or what graphics chip is present and they don’t have a clue what they have or how to get you the relevant information.
For instance, if you want to know the important details about your processor, graphics card, memory speeds, motherboard chipset and BIOS etc, it has to be obtained from somewhere else. Something like MSInfo32 would offer some useful snippets of information about several different system components although it’s by no means complete. Knowing what hardware is present inside your computer by using just the tools present inside Windows might give you some idea, but it won’t be terribly informative.
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