Program information
- Softonic rating:
- License:
- Free
- Added:
- April 5, 2007
- Updated:
- August 24, 2010
- Publisher:
- Cpuid | More programs (4)
- File size:
- 5.0 MB
- Downloads:
- 452,640
“Advanced system information program”
about PC Wizard
A system analyzer is often overlooked as the toy of PC modding fanatics, but the reality is that these applications are very effective at dissecting your PC and giving you the hard truth about its performance. PC Wizard aims to explore the insides of your system and give you the complete low down on its strengths and weaknesses.
Once you launch PC Wizard you’ll notice it takes some time to detect all the hardware installed on your PC. Use the left side of the interface to navigate through the different categories. PC Wizard reveals all the basic details of your hardware, like ports, drivers and processors, but you’ll soon realize there’s much more to it, like analyzing system files or investigating the configuration of elements such as your Internet connection or your Control Panel. Over-sized icons make it fairly obvious what you can inspect, however we would have appreciated an explorer type window to navigate through components and select exactly what to analyze.
The core of any self-respecting system analyzer is the benchmarking tool and that is where PC Wizard excels. The application lets you inspect everything from processors to cache, RAM and multimedia like DirectX, MP3 compression and video. Benchmarks provide the results as a list of information or via comprehensible graphs. These will show you straight away where you’re PC stands and the “compare with” button will let you measure your processor up against well known models. We have to warn beginners though that the information is fairly technical and will be more relevant to experienced users. Just for fun, test out the video benchmark to obtain a swarm of multicoloured balls and lines all over your screen.
That’s the only bit of excitement you’ll get with this application though. PC Wizard is not here for fun it's here to be effective. The detailed information and thorough benchmarking tests give you reliable data on all the characteristics and components of your PC. The complexity of this type of application means beginners are best kept away from it altogether, however advanced users will revel in the wealth of knowledge it will uncover on their PC’s performances.
Languages:
English, German
Recent changes in PC Wizard:
- New Processors support
- New Video Cards support
- New UPnp Devices support
- New Passwords recovery support
- New Web Update interface
OS requirements for PC Wizard:
- OS: Win95/98/98SE/Me/2000/NT/XP/Vista/7
Pros
- Shows processor activity
- Loads of benchmarking possibilities
Cons
- Limited security and resources information
- No explorer view
- Technical information will put beginners off
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From the publisher of PC Wizard
PC WIZARD 2006 is a powerful utility designed especially for detection of hardware, but also some further analysis. It's able to identify a large amount of system components and supports the latest technologies and standards. This tool is periodically updated (usually once per month) in order to provide more accurate results.
PC WIZARD 2006 can analyze and benchmark many kinds of hardware, such as CPU performance, Cache performance, RAM performance, Hard Disk performance, CD/DVD-ROM performance, Removable/FLASH Media performance, Video performance, MP3 compression performance.
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great for those of us who...
i have been useing this very detailed prog...
great for those of us who really want to know all about our cpus
i have been useing this very detailed program for several years,it tells you all you need to know about the details of your cpu,it will benchmark your machine with a few simple ticks of your mouse,... read more
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