Editor's Review - Dr. Hardware 2009 | | |
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| | Dr. Hardware 2006 is an advanced system component detection and benchmark program which offers you accurate and in-depth information about your hardware.
The program contains six categories ('Overview', 'Hardware', 'Devices', 'Windows', 'Resources', 'Benchmarks'), each divided into several sections containing information related to hardware components and operating system's configuration and settings.
The 'Overview' category includes an overview of the system's components, a diagram for CPU usage, the list of Windows Services and the BIOS viewer. The BIOS viewer can display data in ASCII, Strings of Hex format.
The 'Hardware' section shows you relevant and detailed information about the core components found on your system: CPU, Mainboard, SDRAM, sensors, SMBios, Chipset, CMOS, I/O chip, PCI bus and Serial and Parallel Ports.
The 'Devices' category reveals data related to hard drives (physical and logical), video adapters, ASPI devices, IDE/S-ATA/ATAPI devices, modems, printers and multimedia devices.
The 'Windows' category includes all kinds of information about your running version of Windows, system configuration - here you can see the boot options, file types, power management settings, devices' current configuration, Internet explorer details, network and security.
In the 'Resources' category you will find information about Memory, Processes , hardware resources, system monitor and file statistics.
The last, but not least category is the 'Benchmark' category. Here you can perform benchmark tests for CPUs, video adapters, optical drives, ASPI drives, remote drives and Internet connection.
The program works fast and it is very easy to use. In case you want to, you can print out or export a report in TXT/HTML/RTF/CSV format. Advanced users have extra options for gathering data using the program's expert settings.
Pluses: You can also perform primary adapter low level analysis via VESA test, but you need to be careful, as the system may become unstable. Actually, this thing can be seen as a drawback, but I it will offer additional data that other simpler programs do not display. The possibility of performing benchmark tests is another great feature of the program.
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In conclusion: A very useful hardware detection and benchmark program.
version reviewed: 7.5.0e
Dr. Hardware 2009 Publisher's Description Dr. Hardware 2009 is a powerful hardware detection program for Windows 95, 98, Me, NT4, 2000, 2003, XP and Vista. It provides detailed information about processor, BIOS, SDRAM modules, sensor chips, mainboard chipset, SCSI, EIDE and PCI devices; Windows specific stuff like in-depth-analysis of file and memory management, VCACHE statistics, system monitor; also provides benchmarks for CPU, video adapter, harddisks, CD ROM/DVD, ASPI and net drives. System Requirements Pentium or better, 16MB RAM, 15 MB free harddisk capacity What's new detects latest AMD processors like Phenom 2 Triple Core, AMD Sempron(tm) Dual-Core, AMD Athlon(tm) Neo Processor, AMD Athlon(tm) Dual-Core, Six Core AMD Opteron(tm), AMD Phenom(tm)II/X4, AMD Phenom(tm)II/X2 and AMD Athlon(tm) 2 X2, and Intel processors like Atom, Xeon 5500 and 3500, Core i7 etc. |
