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Find Out Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about Your Computer with Speccy

Posted on 10. Dec, 2009 by Sourojit.

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Have you ever wanted to find out all the small details about your computer?  I know that I have, but most of the time the tools you use to find out that information only give you part of it or are difficult to use or cost money.  Well, Speccy is a great and free tool from Piriform that gets you all of the information you desire.

What will you learn from using Speccy? Speccy will analyze your hardware and tell you just about everything you want to know about your operating system, CPU, RAM, motherboard, graphics card, hard drive, optical drive and audio.

Let’s take a deeper look at what you can expect to see from Speccy.

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Monitor Your Computer’s Performance with FreeMeter

Posted on 09. Oct, 2008 by Kyle Judkins.

FreeMeter is a great and free utility that allows you to monitor the performance of your computer.  It’s great if you are a techie that wants to see how your newly built PC stacks up to some stress or if you are just curious at how your computer runs when you have all those windows and programs open.  You may even like it for the pretty graphics that keep going by.  Either way, FreeMeter is worth checking out.

It monitors your CPU and hard drive with scrolling graphs.  It even color codes some of the bars as you increase the stress put on your computer.  In addition to the CPU stats, FreeMeter lists your hard drive stats.  There are also two dynamic tables that continually update your physical memory information and your page file information.

If you don’t want to just stare at the this window all day long, you can close the window and still have some nice bar charts on your system tray.

Overall, FreeMeter is a light and compact utility that is definitely worth checking out.

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