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Hardware Information Software?

#1 unloaded

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Posted 10 September 2007 - 09:50 PM

Are there any software that displays hardware specifications of the followings?

Sata or Pata or IDE drive of my hard drives even external ones, also their speed.
What type of ram I have, eg DDR, DDRII, DDRIII, and how big they are.

because I went to the windows system tools/system information, apart from the xp info, I don't understand what the hardware part has listed.

Also is there a quick way to know if my hard drives are IDE or SATA?
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#2 Budapest

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Posted 11 September 2007 - 01:31 AM

Try SIW.

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Posted 11 September 2007 - 06:24 AM

thanks alot, I checked for my external HDD, which is an ATA/133? I read Wikipedia, it says its a SATA 1.0........which I don't really understand. It's not really faster than my IDE/SATA primary drive, is this because of the limitations with USBs?

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Posted 11 September 2007 - 06:24 AM

SIW, you beat me to it! you can also try Belarc PC audit a free utility that will provide hardware info.

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Posted 11 September 2007 - 06:42 AM

Belarc PC audit also works great, but it detected my computer with three diff. AVs? any ways I can fix that?

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Posted 12 September 2007 - 08:46 AM

Hardware information programs have to be taken with a grain of salt - they work by reading the information that's stored about each device/program - so if it's stored in different places, or if it written differently in different places, things won't add up. Using several tools will usually let you figure out what's what within your system.

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