The computer has become a tool in our lives. If you don't understand the purchase of friends, you will bring your friends who can bring your computer, to prevent being lie. If you happen to meet your friends, you have to wait. In fact, as long as there is a suitable tool on the hand, add more articles on purchases and fake, you can buy a computer yourself. The tools mentioned in this article are hardware test tools. The article introduces three hardware detection tools that currently use the most widely used and test performance. With their help, you can become a master of buying and hardware testing!
AIDA32
Software function
AIDA32 is a comprehensive system information tool that shows the information in each of the computers in detail. It supports the motherboard, graphics card, PCI device, hard disk, and thousands of monitor, which can also fully give information about system software. The report of HTML format has a lot of 400 to 900KB, which is very detailed, new version The AIDA32 has added 4 useful plugins, which can actually test the performance of the hardware device in use, so that your hardware's hardware case is, AIDA32 is simply a tool for hardware "speaking".
Software use
AIDA32 is the software written by foreigners, using an English interface, which shows a lot of professional terms when testing, this article will be described in the Chinese version. The Chinese version does not require the original version. After installation, the main interface is as shown in Figure 1. The entire interface is divided into two parts: the left side is the list of items that computer tests, and the right side is a project detail display area. AIDA32 can test a lot, only a few important explanations:
(1) Overall information
Here, the overall information of the computer system is displayed. Click on the "Summary" below to display all the hardware "Summary" information of the entire computer, you can see my CPU type as AMD DURON from Figure 1, the frequency is 700 MHz, the multiplication is 3.5, the outer frequency 200; the motherboard chip The group is VIA VT8363 (a) Apollo KT133 (a), and the system memory has 128MB, and its type is SDRAM, etc. These information can be copied using the Copy feature in the right mole menu. Display these summary helps us understand the entire computer, if you feel that the display is not enough for a certain display, let's use the item to see more detailed information.
(2) Test CPU
Click on the "CPU" item under the "Motherboard" in the left list item, and the details of the CPU of the current machine are listed in the right side of the list (Figure 2), including the type, kernel, L1 code cache, including the CPU. L1 data cache, package type, package size, kernel size, number of transistors, processing technology (ie, how much micron technology), silicon area, core voltage, I / O voltage, CPU manufacturer name, product information, etc., to identify you Virtue provides a reliable basis. The lowermost also shows the current CPU utilization. If you click "CPUID", you can also display the instruction set supported by the CPU (such as 3DNOW!, MMX, etc.). If you have used professional CPU test tools, you will find that this CPU information interface seems to be inexpected. At this point, you can click on the "Aida32 CPUID" item in the menu "Aida32 CPUID" item will have a similar interface with a professional CPU test tool (Figure 3), of course, the test information is more detailed.
(3) Test the motherboard
Click on the "Motherboard" item in the "Motherboard" in the left list item, list the corresponding motherboard information in the right side of the list, in the figure we can check the model, name, front-end system bus attribute, memory Bus attributes and chipset bus properties, etc. It also shows the website of the motherboard manufacturer and the BIOS upgrade URL. If you want to upgrade the BIOS, you can easily find the required BIOS data.
(4) Detection The monitor can check the "Monitor" option under "display" to query the display of the display, the specific time can be accurate to the first few weeks; in addition to this, you can learn from here to the serial number of the display. , Model, maximum resolution, maximum refresh rate, etc., the same, it also shows the latest driver download URL.
However, this is just the hardware information of the display, and the new version of the AIDA32 has a plugin that tests the performance of the display. Click on the Menu "Aida32 Monitor Diagnostics" item to pop up a professional test interface, you can perform normal testing, color testing, line testing and text testing, etc. .
(5) Hard disk test
When we buy a hard drive to the installer, we will not lie for the capacity of the hard disk, because this is easy to see, but they may be lying on the hard disk cache, speed and other items, use the software to test it It will not be cheated.
Click "ATA" option under "Storage" to get detailed physical information of the hard disk (Figure 4), which can see the hard disk information from the figure.
This is just the hard disk information read. If you want to know how the hard disk is in actual use, you can click on the "Aida32 Disk Benchmark Plugin" item in the menu "Plugin", and then perform speed test.
Of course, the adIa32 can also test a lot of hardware information, such as sound card information, storage device information, hard disk partition information, network information (referring to the network card model, modem model, etc.), using the method, and there is not much to say.
It is worth mentioning that the AIDA32 also displays the current operating state of the computer (click on the "Sensor" item in "Computer" to display the current motherboard, CPU temperature, cooling fan speed, CPU kernel voltage, etc.), running process ( Click on the "Process" item in the "Operating System" to see), IE Cookie, IE history, etc., interested friends may wish to try. (Editor Note: The latest AIDA32 has been renamed EVEREST)
Sisoft Sandra Max 3
Software function
Sisoft Sandra Max 3 is a powerful systematic analysis evaluation tool that has more than 30 or more test projects, including CPU, Drives, CD-ROM / DVD, Memory, SCSI, APM / ACPI, Mouse, Keyboard, Network, Motherboard, printer, etc. Comprehensive support current VIA, Ali chipset, and Pentium 4, AMD processor. It built into the Benchmark test kernel, which can be tested for various hardware, which knows the authenticity and hardware performance and level of hardware. Sisoft Sandra has two versions of standard and professional editions. The standard version is currently free, but some submodules cannot be used; the professional version is more powerful, there are more features.
Software use
After SISOFT is started, you can see the main interface shown in the figure (Figure 5). All submodules are displayed in the main interface window, up to 56, is it a bit dizziness? In fact, it can be divided into four major categories. If you open the "Modules" menu, you can see these four major modules, which are "information modules", "Benchmarking Modules", "Listing Modules". Module), "Testing Modules", and each type of module contains multiple sub-modules. Click on the menu "View" item, you can choose to display only a category of submodules in the main interface window, such as "Information Modules", which only displays such sub-modules in the main interface window. (1) View hardware information
The modules in the INFORMATION MODULES class provide system hardware and software analysis detection and reporting, including software information such as motherboard, CPU, power, drive, display system, sound system, and Winsock, DirectX, OpenGL and other software information. With this information, you can identify the authenticity of hardware.
For example, the "Mainboard Information" module provides details of the motherboard (Figure 6), the motherboard chipset type and the series number, the system control chip type, the size of the secondary cache, the speed of the front-end bus, the frequency of the CPU, memory plug The number and type of the groove, the detailed parameters of the memory, the version of the AGP slot, the speed of the PCI, and the number of divisions, usb versions, and transmission speeds. You can understand your motherboard here, identify authenticity.
If you want to know the BIOS version, you can get the BIOS manufacturer, type, version, date, and ID number through the software's CPU & BIOS Information option.
(2) Test hardware performance
The reference module mainly provides a number of important projects for multiple important projects, and compares test data with other reference systems (such as ALTHON, P4, etc.), so that the performance of the current system can be judged, note that SiSoft Sandra's reference test Projects have changed with the change of the hardware environment, for example, if you don't have a 3D graphics card, SiSoft Sandra does not provide a 3D graphics baseline test, once you upgrade the hardware, it will provide the corresponding test item to make you new hardware Perform testing and comparison. To test, just double-click a test sub-module, wait for a while, usually 1 to 10 minutes, will display a test data and comparison table, let you know the comparison of the hardware and standard hardware.
Most users are very concerned about how fast their CPU speed is, then the "CPU Benchmark" option can quickly get the answer, the typical reference CPU used by the Sisoft Sandra is automatically selected according to the CPU of the current system, integer calculation test adopted It is a dhrystone value, unit MIPS (number of orders per second), floating point calculation test uses the FPU WHETSTONE value, unit MFLOPS (number of millions of floating point per second).
For the multimedia performance of the CPU, Sisoft Sandra also provides a multimedia comparison test option (Figure 7), which tests different instruction sets such as MMX, SSE and 3DNOW!, So that users can have multimedia computing performance for their own system. An in-depth understanding.
(3) Read the configuration file
In addition to hardware testing, users often need to understand some of the parameters of the software environment of the system run, and Sisoft Sandra also provides a more detailed software running environment test option. Contains many profiles, system initialization files, such as autoexec.bat, msdos.sys, system.ini, win.ini, control.ini, protocol.ini, etc., you can open it, but Can only be modified. (4) Generate test report
Through the above test items, we have a very comprehensive understanding of the hardware software of our own flies, the only regret is a one-to-test, don't worry, Sisoft Sandra has one Very thoughtful features - Test Report Wizard.
The first icon in the toolbar is the Test Report Wizard. After starting this wizard, the Sisoft Sandra is 8 steps to make the user select and set up to complete all the tests and generate a test report to the user.
The first step, the information option: Let the user choose the option to get the information, including all hardware and software environment options; second steps, compare the test options, which items are selected to perform a reference comparative test; third steps, list options Let users choose the system files and environmental parameters that need to be viewed; fourth steps, diagnostic options: Help users understand the situation of hardware settings and interrupt conflicts; fifth step, add comments, that is, whether this test needs to add a comment, etc. In order to query future; sixth step, the report, there can be many options, such as saving on hard disk, print or fax, e-mail sending or presenting a script file, etc.; Step 7, select report file format: txt / RPT / HTM / XML and other formats are optional, and can be set to compress to a CAB file package; Eight step eight steps, select the report file location and enter the report file name.
Next is patience waiting, complete all tests are taken for a long time, and this opportunity stands up to active activities, drink the water, and then see all the information and comparative test results of the entire system.
Hwinfo323
Software function
Hwinfo This is the most famous computer hardware detection software under DOS. After the Window era, it launched a Windows version, and the DOS version continues to be launched. However, its Windows version hardware test capability is acknowledged, and it has gradually covered by other test tools, but it is not a good hardware test tool. Hwinfo32 can display the processor, motherboard, and chipset, PCMCIA interface, BIOS version, memory, etc., and HWInfo provides the processor, memory, hard disk (unavailable in Win9x) and performance test functions of the CD-ROM.
Software use
HWINFO32 runs the main interface as shown in Figure (Fig. 8), it is relatively simple, and it is also a test item clicking on the left. The corresponding information is displayed in the right window, and the features are described only.
(1) System Overview
Click on the "Summary" button on the main interface toolbar to pop up the system overview interface (Figure 9), you can view the information of the CPU, motherboard, memory, display the chipset of the graphics, sound card, and the DMA mode supported by the hard disk, currently supported DMA Mode, etc.
(2) Benchmark test
Click the "Benchmark" button on the toolbar to test the specific performance of the CPU, hard disk, and memory (Figure 10), click the "Comparison" button to the corresponding item bar, and the value obtained with the same hardware is also displayed. Enables you to have an intuitive understanding of the hardware performance used. For example, click the "Compare" button on the right side of the disk "burst reading rate", it will get the window shown in the figure (Figure 11). If you click the Report button on the toolbar, you can also get a detailed report of the selected test item. There is also an advantage that the software size is small, and it is possible to use a 1.44 MB of floppy disk to facilitate testing.
