What are inside your Personal Computer? (SiSoftware Sandra)

Member Name: djohan

Product:	SiSoftware Sandra
Date:	11/12/01 (1454 review reads)
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What kinds of peripherals are in my personal computer (PC)? Did the vendor sell and deliver the PC in accordance with the specifications I quoted? Is my PC optimized enough? How well does it run? Etc., might be appearing in our minds all the time.

Being consumers sometimes we feel dizzy to find out various types of PCs for nowadays there are various products with different specifications. What mainboard or what processor, etc. is best to buy? After doing some purchases, you might ask, ?Did the vendor deliver me the peripherals as I quoted?? And finally you might say, ?I don?t care as I am blind at all!?

Don?t be blind too long. There are various utilities to help you to find out some information on your PC. One of them is SiSoft Sandra Standard Edition. It informs various detailed information of PCs. Instead of informing the existence of some peripherals plugged on a PC, it also gives very useful comparisons of each peripheral with other standard peripherals.


Who is Sandra?

Sandra sounds like a girl?s name. But the name does not refer to someone?s name. It is the abbreviation of the System ANalyser, Diagnostic and Reporting Assistant. Referring to the abbreviation, it tells us what its main abilities.


Where to obtain this utility?

Just visit www.sisoftware.demon.co.uk/sandra/. The official site is plain and easy enough to navigate. The content is full of information on SiSoft Sandra. Here the visitor can see that there are 2 versions of this utility. The first one is the professional edition, and the other one is the standard edition.

The professional edition is not a shareware, and now I writing about the shareware version, SiSoft Sandra Standard Edition.


System Requirement

It runs under most Windows operating systems, Windows 98, Windows ME, Windows, Windows NT, Windows 2000 and Windows XP. No other specific hardware requirement required for running this u
tility.


What can this utility do?

It tells its user some information on: mainboard, CPU & BIOS, APM & ACPI, PCI/AGP CardBus, Video System Information, Windows Memory, DOS Memory, Drives, Ports, Keyboard, Mouse, Ports, Windows, DMA Settings, DirectX, etc.

If you want to know the condition of your PC, you can run some benchmark tools from this utility; CPU Benchmark, CPU Multimedia Benchmark, Drives Benchmark, CDRom/DVD Benchmark, Memory Benchmark and Network Benchmark.

One of the most outstanding feature of this utility is that it can make a conclusion on the condition of your PC and also give some suggestion to fix the problem! This one is really great!

How lucky we are to find this freeware that helps much in knowing our PCs better! After running this utility, you must know your PCs any closer.


Conclusion

Knowing how to use this utility properly helps us very much in knowing the real condition of our PCs. We can prove by ourselves about the qualities of a PC peripherals. By seeing the comparisons of benchmark results from this utility, it gives us some better ideas or knowledge of PC peripherals.

Just another additional information: Nowadays we can download thousands of freeware or shareware. But are they really free? Some of them give a limit of time to activate the software, and some of then sends a 'spy' to our PC for some reasons. And don't worry with this utility. No limitation of time and no spies come with it.

Try to get it now, okay?

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