CPU-Z is a
freeware
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system profiling and
monitoring
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* Baby monitoring
* Biomonitoring, of toxic chemical compounds, ...
application for
Microsoft Windows
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and
Android that detects the
central processing unit
A central processing unit (CPU), also called a central processor, main processor or just processor, is the electronic circuitry that executes instructions comprising a computer program. The CPU performs basic arithmetic, logic, controlling, an ...
,
RAM
Ram, ram, or RAM may refer to:
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* A male sheep
* Ram cichlid, a freshwater tropical fish
People
* Ram (given name)
* Ram (surname)
* Ram (director) (Ramsubramaniam), an Indian Tamil film director
* RAM (musician) (born 1974), Dutch
* ...
,
motherboard
A motherboard (also called mainboard, main circuit board, mb, mboard, backplane board, base board, system board, logic board (only in Apple computers) or mobo) is the main printed circuit board (PCB) in general-purpose computers and other expand ...
chip-set, and other hardware features of a modern
personal computer
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or
Android device
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.
Features
CPU-Z is more comprehensive in virtually all areas compared to the tools provided in the
Windows OS
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to identify various hardware components, and thus assists in identifying certain components without the need of opening the case; particularly the core revision and
RAM
Ram, ram, or RAM may refer to:
Animals
* A male sheep
* Ram cichlid, a freshwater tropical fish
People
* Ram (given name)
* Ram (surname)
* Ram (director) (Ramsubramaniam), an Indian Tamil film director
* RAM (musician) (born 1974), Dutch
* ...
clock rate
In computing, the clock rate or clock speed typically refers to the frequency at which the clock generator of a processor can generate pulses, which are used to synchronize the operations of its components, and is used as an indicator of the pr ...
. It also provides information on the system's
GPU
A graphics processing unit (GPU) is a specialized electronic circuit designed to manipulate and alter memory to accelerate the creation of images in a frame buffer intended for output to a display device. GPUs are used in embedded systems, mobi ...
.
See also
*
CPUID
In the x86 architecture, the CPUID instruction (identified by a CPUID opcode) is a processor supplementary instruction (its name derived from CPU IDentification) allowing software to discover details of the processor. It was introduced by Intel ...
*
Benchmark (computing)
In computing, a benchmark is the act of running a computer program, a set of programs, or other operations, in order to assess the relative Computer performance, performance of an object, normally by running a number of standard Software perfo ...
*
GPU-Z
TechPowerUp GPU-Z (or just GPU-Z) is a lightweight utility designed to provide information about video cards and GPUs.TechPowerUp The program displays the specifications of Graphics Processing Unit (often shortened to GPU) and its memory; also di ...
*
Speccy
References
External links
CPU-Z official website(December 2009)
Softpedia review(October 2006)
(2001)
Windows-only freeware
Portable software
Utilities for Windows
Android (operating system) software
System administration
2001 software
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