A computer is an assembly of a CPU, Motherboard, Mainboard, Memory, Hard disk & Graphics card. When you purchase a PC or, say, Laptop, you focus on the device’s main components, e.g., Motherboard, CPU, Hard Disk, RAM, etc.
But, have you think these main items are build of various small components? And in this article, I will try to find out those little components information with the help of CPU-Z.
The CPU-Z is a freeware tool that gathers information on some of the main devices of your system.
The CPU-Z has main seven menu’s, which displays various information :
CPU – In the CPU menu, you will get the main info like Name and number, Core stepping and process, Package, Core voltage, Internal and external clocks, clock multiplier, Supported instruction sets, and Cache information.
MainBoard – Here, you get info about Vendor, model, revision, BIOS model and date, Chipset (northbridge and southbridge), and sensor and Graphic interface.
Memory: Frequency and timings, Module(s) specification using SPD (Serial Presence Detect): vendor, serial number, timings table, etc. info is available in the memory tab.
Caches: In this tab, you will get info about L1, L2, and L3 cache.
SPD: Here slot wise information is visible; you can get info about which slot which component is fixed; Timings table with frequency and voltage are the additional info.
Graphics: Information can be got about GPU name, code name, clocks, core, size, memory, etc.
About: To know the CPU-Z version mainly.
The CPU-Z is free software and can be used with any version of the Windows Operating System, including XP, Vista, Win 7, Win 8, Win 8.1, etc. Presently, version 1.69.2 is available, which can be downloaded from the download link provided at the end of the article.
In my reviews, CPU-Z is a nice application to get maximum information about your PC without using the command.