A system analyzer is often overlooked as the toy of PC modding fanatics, but the reality is that these applications are very effective at dissecting your PC and giving you the hard truth about its performance.

PC Wizard 2010 explore’s the insides of your system and give you the complete low down on its strengths and weaknesses.

Once you launch PC Wizard you’ll notice it takes some time to detect all the hardware installed on your PC. Use the left side of the interface to navigate through the different categories. PC Wizard reveals all the basic details of your hardware, like ports, drivers and processors, but you’ll soon realize there’s much more to it, like analyzing system files or investigating the configuration of elements such as your Internet connection or your Control Panel. Over-sized icons make it fairly obvious what you can inspect, however we would have appreciated an explorer type window to navigate through components and select exactly what to analyze.

The core of any self-respecting system analyzer is the benchmarking tool and that is where PC Wizard excels. The application lets you inspect everything from processors to cache, RAM and multimedia like DirectX, MP3 compression and video. Benchmarks provide the results as a list of information or via comprehensible graphs. These will show you straight away where you’re PC stands and the “compare with” button will let you measure your processor up against well known models. We have to warn beginners though that the information is fairly technical and will be more relevant to experienced users. Just for fun, test out the video benchmark to obtain a swarm of multicoloured balls and lines all over your screen.

That’s the only bit of excitement you’ll get with this application though. PC Wizard is not here for fun it's here to be effective. The detailed information and thorough benchmarking tests give you reliable data on all the characteristics and components of your PC. The complexity of this type of application means beginners are best kept away from it altogether, however advanced users will revel in the wealth of knowledge it will uncover on their PC’s performances.

 

Features:

 

Hardware Information

• Mainboard / Bios (Connectors, ID String, MP Support …)
• Chipset (FSB Frequency, Norhtbridge, Hub, Direct Media Interface, XMB, NSI, …)
• Main Memory (FPM, EDO, SDRAM, DDR SDRAM, DDR-2 SDRAM, DDR-3 SDRAM, RDRAM, FB_DIMM, Timings …)
• Memory Profiles : EPP (SLi Ready), Intel XMP.
• Cache Memory (L1, L2, L3, Size, Frequency …)
• Processors (Type, Speed, Multiplier coeff., Features, Model Number, Vanderpool Technology …)
• Coprocessor.
• APM & ACP.I
• Busses : ISA, PCI, AGP (2x, 4x,8x), SMBus/ i2c, CardBus, Firewire, Hyper-Transport … )
• DMI / SMBIOS.
• Mainboard Sensors, Processor, Hard Disk & Battery (Voltage, Temperature, Fans)
• Video (Monitor, Card, Bios, Capabilities, Memory, Integrated Memory, Frequencies …)
• OpenGL & 3Dfx.
• DirectX (DirectDraw, Direct3D, DirectSound (3D), DirectMusic, DirectPlay, DirectInput, DirectX Media)
• Keyboard, Mouse & Joystick.
• Drives (Hard Disk, Removable, CD-ROM, CDRW, DVD …)
• SCSI (Card, Controller, Adapter, Devices …)
• ATA/ATAPI & S-ATA (Devices, Type, Capabilities, S.M.A.R.T. Features, RAID)
• Ports (Serial, Parallel, USB, IEEE-1394)
• IDE & SCSI Devices.
• Twain & WIA Devices.
• PCMCIA (PC Card) Devices.
• Bluetooth Devices.
• Biometric Sensor Devices.
• Sound Card (wave, midi, aux, mix, AC'97 codec, High Definition Audio)
• Printers (Local & Network)
• Modem (Features, Speed …)
• Network (Server, Connexion, Firewall …)
• Security (Scan Ports …)
• PocketPC & SmartPhone Devices.
• Virtual Machines.

 

System Information:

• MCI Devices (mpeg, avi, seq, vcr, video-disc, wave) & ACM.
• SAPI.
• Passwords (Outlook, Internet Explorer, MSN Messenger, Dialup …)
• DOS Memory (base, HMA, UMB, XMS, EMS, DPMI, VCPI)
• Windows Memory.
• Windows (Version, Product Key, Environment, Desktop, XP Themes …)
• Windows UpTime (Boot, Shutdown, BlueScreen, System Restore Points …)
• TrueType & OpenType Fonts.
• WinSock (Internet), Telephony et Remote Access.
• OLE (Objects, Servers …)
• Microsoft© Applications.
• Activity (Process, Tasks, Threads)
• Modules (DLL, DRV, 32 & 16-bits) & NT Services.
• Internet Navigator (Microsoft Internet Explorer, Netscape, Mozilla, FireFox)
• .NET Global Assembly Cache (GAC)
• ODBC.
• CMOS/RTC.
• Resources (IRQ, DMA, E/S, Memory)
• System files (.ini, .log, .bat, .nt, .dos …)

 

System Benchmarks:

• Processor (Dhrystone (MIPS), Whetstone (MFLOPS), Mandelbrot fractal …)
• L1, L2, L3 Cache, RAM (Bandwidth, Latency …)
• Main Memory (Bandwidth, Latency …)
• Hard Drives.
• CD/DVD Rom.
• DirectX.
• Video.
• Removable/Flash Support.
• MP3 Compression.
• VISTA Experience Index.

 

MEMORY and CACHE:

These benchmarks measure the maximum achiveable memory bandwidth. The code behind these benchmarks method is written in Assembly (x86, SSE, SSE2, SSE3). Memory benchmarks utilize only one processor core and one thread.

PROCESSOR:

These benchmarks measure performance in terms of Integer Millions of Instructions Per Second (Integer MIPS) and Millions of Floating Point Operations Per Second (MFLOPS). The code behind these benchmarks method is written in Assembly (x86, x87, MMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, 3DNOW!). Processor benchmarks are HyperThreading, multi-processor (SMP) and multi-core (CMP) aware.

 

Tools:

• Can save, print, e-mail a report.
• Can save a TXT, RTF, HTML, PDF or CSV report.
• Can export any graphics as BMP file.
• Can export text and graphic with the clipboard.
• Web update Wizard.
• Communicate with Motherboard Monitor.
• Dump (Hardware registers, System BIOS, video BIOS …)

 

Multi Languages:

• Dutch.
• English.
• French.
• German.
• Greek.
• Italian.
• Russian.
• Serbian.
• Slovak.
• Spanish.

 

“Use this 100% free software to learn more about your computer and its components, detect/diagnose any problems in your computer, and increase your computer's performance”

Note:

Portable Edition of PC Wizard 2010 can be obtained HERE

 

OS Requirements:

Win 95/Win98/Win Me/

WinNT/Win XP/

Vista/Win7

(32 bit and 64-bit)

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