3D ExerciZer
OS: Win95/98/NT  Download    Rating: 4/5 - 6.3Mb
3D ExerciZer is an OpenGL application for use on PCs running Windows 95, Windows 98, and Windows NT. This tool provides an easy and intuitive way to test and compare the performance of different 3D graphics workstations and subsystems.

3DMark06  
OS: Win2k/XP/Vista  Download Homepage Rating: 5/5 - 580Mb
Shareware $19.95
3DMark(tm) is a benchmark that focuses on testing 3D performance of modern 3D accelerators in a "real world" environment. 3DMark focuses on games of the majority of it’s results. 3DMark is one of the world's most used benchmarks!
3DMark06 1.2.0 is also available as a 13Mb update for 3DMark06 1.0.0 users! 3DMark05 1.0.0, 1.1.0 & 1.2.0 users can download a patch (9.3Mb), bringing the program up to version 1.3.0!
3DMark03 build 313, 320, 330, 340 and 350 users can download a patch(9.7Mb), which will update the program to version 3.6.0!

3DMark Vantage  
OS: Windows Vista Download Homepage Screenshot 
Rating: 5/5 - 357Mb
Freeware (Basic Edition)
3DMark Vantage is the industry standard PC gaming performance benchmark from Futuremark, designed for Windows Vista and DirectX10. It includes two graphics tests, two CPU tests, several feature tests, and support for the latest hardware.
3DMark Vantage 1.0.0 users can download a patch(57Mb), which will update the program to version 1.0.2!

3DMark 11  
OS: Windows Vista/7 Download Homepage Screenshot 
Rating: 5/5 - 282Mb
Shareware $19.95
3DMark 11 is the latest version of the world's most popular benchmark. Designed to measure your PC's gaming performance 3DMark 11 makes extensive use of all the new features in DirectX 11 including tessellation, compute shaders and multi-threading. Trusted by gamers worldwide to give accurate and unbiased results, 3DMark 11 is the best way to consistently and reliably test DirectX 11 under game-like loads.
3DMark 11 1.0.0 users can download a patch(17Mb), which will update the program to version 1.0.3!

Active SMART 2.9
OS: Win9x/NT/2k/Me/XP/2k3/Vista/7  Download  Homepage   Rating: 4/5 - 3Mb
Shareware $29.95
Active SMART is a the hard disk drive monitoring and failure prediction software. It uses S.M.A.R.T. technology to monitor the health status of hard disk drives, prevents data loss and predicts possible drive fail. If a fault is detected, you are notified with various local alerting options or you can enable remote notifications via e-mail or other network mail applications with the drive ID and the time of the first fault. Active SMART monitors all important HDD parameters. You can track every S.M.A.R.T. parameter of your HDD, and get the information about every drive's attribute: attribute's value, it's threshold level and worst value for the attribute. Also it shows the information about HDD: serial number, drive logical information, current mode and other.
You can also download Active SMART SCSI edition with SCSI drives support. Active SMART SCSI edition supports hard drives on SCSI controllers and SCSI RAID arrays. Active SMART SCSI edition supports up to 4 IDE/ATA and up to 8 SCSI drives.
Active SMART for USB drives allows to check health status, temperature and many other vital parameters of hard drives connected through the USB port.

Advanced Administrative Tools
OS: Win9x/Me/NT/2k/XP Download Homepage  Rating: 4/5 - 1.7Mb
Shareware $49.95
AATools is a multithreaded network diagnostic tool. Its purpose is to accumulate data pertaining to network status and availability, using all of the latest development tools in network research. It is a 11-in-1 utility, including TCP/UDP Security Port Scanner, Proxy Analyzer, Trace Route, Email Verifier, Links Analyzer, Whois, Network Monitor, Process Monitor, System Info, Resource Viewer, Registry Cleaner.

Advanced PCI Info
OS: Win9x/NT/2k/Me  Download  Homepage   Rating: 5/5 - 290Kb
Freeware
This utility shows PCI/AGP devices list. You can get the detailed information on each of them with identification and all device capabilities.

AIDA
OS: DOS  Download  Homepage  Rating: 4/5 - 968Kb
Freeware
AIDA is a sysinfo/systest/benchmark tool, designed to be run in DOS mode. It can reliably identify almost all hardware & software components, and gives you pretty much information about the computer. Unfortunately, it has rather uncomfortable interface.

AIDA32 Enterprise Edition
OS: Win9x/Me/NT/2k/XP Download Homepage  Rating: 5/5 - 2.9Mb
Freeware
AIDA32 is a sysinfo/benchmark tool. It can reliably identify almost all hardware & software components, and gives you pretty much information about the computer. It can be considered as one of the best programs in its class! Highly recommended!

AIDA64 Extreme Edition  
OS: Win9x/Me/NT/2k/XP/Vista/7 Download Homepage Screenshot
Rating: 5/5 - 12Mb
Shareware $39.95
AIDA64 is the successor to the widely popular diagnostic utilities AIDA, AIDA32 and Lavalys EVEREST. AIDA64 Extreme Edition is a streamlined Windows diagnostic and benchmarking software for home users. AIDA64 Extreme Edition provides a wide range of features to assist in overclocking, hadware error diagnosis, stress testing, and sensor monitoring. It has unique capabilities to assess the performance of the processor, system memory, and disk drives. AIDA64 is compatible with all current 32-bit and 64-bit Microsoft Windows operating systems.

AleGr MEMTEST
OS: DOS, Windows Download Homepage Rating: 4/5 - 46K
Freeware
This is a program for testing DRAM (main memory) of PC-compatible computers built on Intel 386 or higher processor. This program is designed to run on the processors with memory cache, and takes into account how the system bus, cache and main memory of Pentium and Pentium Pro (Pentium II, III, 4) processors work. Maximum size of memory the program is able to test is 3 gigabytes under DOS and less than 2 gigabytes under Windows. IThe program can be run under "bare" DOS session, and under Windows 98, Windows ME, Windows 2000, Windows XP.

AltiPCI
OS: WinNT/2k/XP Download Homepage Rating: 4/5 - 139K
Freeware
AltiPCI displays detailed PCI statistics of all devices in a Windows NT/2000/XP Pro X86 based system. A few features include GUI hex dump for each device, standard vendor, device, & class descriptions, multi-function device breakdown, general class descriptions for prototyping, easy device autoscroll buttons, subvendor & subsystem information and buttons to generate and save detailed reports of local PCI 2.3 devices.

Analyzer XP
OS: WinXP   Download Homepage   Rating: 4/5 - 469Kb
Shareware
Analyzer XP gives you information about your system working under Windows XP. Particularly, it show information about the operating system, CPU, BIOS, video subsystem, including monitor, multimedia devices, RAM, disk drives, I/O devices, and more. At the moment, the program has only Russian interface.

AppliTimer
OS: Win9x/Me/NT/2k/XP Download Homepage Rating: 4/5 - 137Kb
Freeware
AppliTimer measures any Windows application's load time.

AquaMark 3
OS: Win98/Me/NT/2k/XP Download Homepage Rating: 5/5 - 62.4Mb
Shareware $9.95
AquaMark3 allows PC users to easily measure and compare the performance of their current and next-generation PC systems. It provides a reliable benchmark which helps users to configure their systems for the best gaming performance. The AquaMark3 executes a complete state-of-the-art game engine and generates 3D scenes designed to make the same demands on hardware as a modern game. The utilized game engine, the krass™ Engine, has been used in Aquanox and AquaNox 2: Revelation as well as in the RTS Spellforce by Phenomic Game Development. Technically, AquaMark3 utilizes recent hardware features of the new DirectX 9 API, such as PixelShader 2.0, while staying fully backward compatible to DirectX 8 and 7 graphics hardware. The graphics and game engine features activated can be configured in fine detail to allow the performance measurement to be adjusted appropriately for the target system.

ArchMark
OS: Win98/Me/NT/2k/XP Download Homepage Rating: 4/5 - 97Kb
Freeware
ArchMark is a purely synthetic graphics benchmark that measures throughput for specific parts of a rendering pipeline while trying to avoid being bottlenecked by anything else. It includes the following tests: fillrate, bandwidth, geometry, texturing, readback, texture cache and tiling. ArchMark uses OpenGL for all rendering. At the end of the benchmark, full results will be dumped to three files with different formats: TXT, CSV and HTML.

Artifact Tester
OS: Win9x/Me/NT/2000  Download  Homepage Rating: 4/5 - 37K
Freeware
This is a program to test the stability of video cards and the amount of artifacting that takes place on overclocked cards. Using a series of moving pictures, artifacting is spotted and leads to a number of "ArtifactMarks". For finding a card's limit, it's just about the only option you have other than judging by eye.

ASTRA 6.01
OS: DOS  Download Homepage Rating: 5/5 - 515Kb
Shareware $15
This is a very nice russian sysinfo program (with english interface), that gives you comprehensive information about your computer (including monitor!).

ASTRA32 3.01
OS: Win9x/Me/NT/2k/XP/2k3/Vista/7  Download Homepage Rating: 4/5 - 1.3Mb
Shareware $24.95
ASTRA for Windows. This program performs computer configuration analysis and provides detailed information (including undocumented) on your computer hardware and its working modes. Features: detects 152 processor and coprocessor types, CPU and bus frequency. Provides information on CPU features, cache, motherboard, hard disks, CD-ROM, memory modules, chipset, BIOS, PCI/AGP and ISA/PnP devices, DMI/SMBIOS, video card, sound card, network card, printer, etc.

Atomic CPU Test
OS: Win9x/NT/2k/XP  Download  Homepage Rating: 4/5 - 501Kb
Freeware
Atomic CPU Test will measure the performance of your CPU, FPU and the Cache/Memory subsystem. The program has Russian interface.

Atrise Lutcurve
OS: Win2k/XP/Vista/7  Download  Homepage Screenshot
Rating: 5/5 - 1.7Mb
Shareware $25
This program will help you to calibrate your LCD or CRT displays without any hardware devices. Lutcurve is based on using neutral-color sensitivity of the human eye. The software specialized gamma test pattern computations are based on an article "Measurement of display transfer characteristic (gamma)" by A. Roberts. The program, unlike popular gamma calibration tools, ensures highly precise calibration, which is typical of hardware. Atrise Lutcurve lets you correct nonlinearity of displays, especially noticeable on LCD monitors. The count of calibration points is not limited, which means you can calibrate even an aging display. A multi-display PC installation is also supported. You can calibrate your displays to show the same colors on all of your displays. Atrise Lutcurve has a multilingual interface (English, French, Finnish, Italian, Polish, Portuguese Brazil, Russian and Chinese languages are currently supported).

Battery Eater Pro 2.70  
OS: Win9x/Me/NT/2k/XP Download Homepage Rating: 5/5 - 713Kb
Freeware
Battery Eater will measure battery life of your notebook computer. During the test it heavily loads CPU, RAM, HDD and videocard. Additionally, the program shows system information, which includes AC status, battery name, type and manufacturer, CPU, RAM and display info, etc. Details...

Belarc Advisor
OS: Win9x/Me/NT/2k/XP/Vista/7 Download Homepage Rating: 4/5 - 2Mb
Freeware
The Belarc Advisor builds a detailed profile of your installed software and hardware and displays the results in your Web browser. All of your PC profile information is kept private on your PC and is not sent to any web server.

BeMark 2002
OS: Win9x/Me/NT/2k/XP Download Homepage Rating: 4/5 - 765K
Freeware
BeMark (Beyond3DMark) is an accurate and reliable diagnostics tool, which provides you with benchmark results that empower you to make informed hardware assessments. It uses OpenGL support to indicate how powerful a modern system can be.

Bench 1.8
OS: DOS       Download  Rating: 4/5 - 24K
Very good program! BENCH is an efficient benchmark for PC's motherboards, processors, graphics adapters, hard drives and CD-ROM drives! It's main advantage is it's size!

Bench'emAll!  
OS: Win9x/Me/NT/2k/XP Download Homepage Rating: 5/5 - 1.1Mb
Shareware $24.95
Bench'emAll! is intended for automated 3D benchmarking using a number of specified 3D Benchmarks. At the moment, the program supports Quake 3, Doom 3, Half-Life 2, Serious Sam SE, 3DMark2001 SE Pro, SplinterCell 1.2b, Return to Castle Wolfenstein, Unreal II: The Awakening, The Chronicles Of Riddick - EFBB, Far Cry, Halo, ChameleonMark, 3DMark03, 3DMark05, Unreal Tournament 2003, Unreal Tournament 2004, GLMark 1.1, SPECviewperf 6, 7.x and 8, etc. Just run the main file and Bench'emAll! will scan for these applications, run them and log all the results.

BenchMarX
OS: Win9x/Me/NT/2k/XP Download Homepage Rating:4/5 - 600Kb
Freeware
BenchMarX gives pretty comprehensive system information and allows to benchmark some components (such as CPU, video (OpenGL), memory, hard drives) and compare the results with other systems.

BenchMem
OS: Win9x/Me/NT/2k/XP  Download  Homepage Rating: 5/5 - 10Kb
Freeware
BenchMem is a memory benchmarking tool, which tests the read/write performance of your cache and memory subsystems.

BenchOne III
OS: WinNT/2k/XP  Download  Homepage Rating: 5/5 - 2.7Mb
Freeware
BenchOne is a CPU benchmark that tests math capabilities of your processor. The result can be compared to baselines, saved or uploaded to the online database. The interface is in German.

BencHMax
OS: Win9x/NT/2k/XP  Download  Homepage Rating: 4/5 - 372Kb
Freeware
BencHMax is a CPU benchmark, which measures the speed of CPU instructions processing (inlcuding MMX, SSE2, 3Dnow!, etc.). In addition, the program displays basic information about your CPU.

BIOS Agent
OS: Win9x/Me/NT/2k/XP/Vista Download Homepage Rating:5/5 - 287Kb
Freeware
The BIOS Agent is a simple, easy to use program that will automatically identify your computers BIOS and other system information. The results you get back after running the BIOS Agent are exactly what you need in order to upgrade your computer's BIOS, so save or print these results! BIOS Wizard has a nice-looking interface and a detailed help file.

Bonzai System View
OS: Win9x/Me/NT/2000  Download Homepage Rating:4/5 - 2.4Mb
Freeware
Bonzai System View gives you detailed information about your computer - the drives, display, memory, CPU and more. With its attractive and easy to use interface, you can quickly find detailed information which could be useful before installing new hardware or calling technical support.

BurnIn64
OS: Win64  Download Homepage Rating: 5/5 - 315Kb
Shareware $18.95
Burnin64 is a burn-in tool designed for AMD64 architecture to test the major components of computer under Windows For 64-bit Extended Systems(x86-64 platform) environment. It is specifically designed to test CPU(s), Motherboard, Memory and Hard drive(s) with new features of x86-64 architecture in mind.

Burn In 2008
OS: WinNT/2k/XP/Vista  Download  Screenshot
Rating: 4/5 - 277Kb
Freeware
Burn In 2008 is a windows based utility that uses cutting edged algorithms to test the stability of your processor. With two settings you can not only make sure your overclocked processor is computing the correct values, but you can also do a burn in to ensure you have enough cooling capabilities. Unofficial tests have shown that Burn In 2008 produces more heat in the CPU Burn In mode than the leading Burn In programs. Along with pushing your CPU to its maximum, Burn In 2008 also is built to work with all processors, 32-bit and 64-bit, and it can also make dual quad cores to reach their maximum usage as well as heat production.

BurnMax
OS: Win9x/NT/2k/XP  Download  Homepage Rating: 4/5 - 590Kb
Freeware
BurnMax is a CPU burn-in test with quite simple and intuitive interface. You can set the time of running as well as priority.

Business Winstone 2004
OS: Win2k/XP  Homepage    Rating: 5/5
Winstone 2004 is a system-level, application-based benchmark that measures a PC's overall performance when running today's top-selling Windows-based 32-bit applications on Windows 2000 (SP2 or later) or Windows XP. Business Winstone doesn't mimic what these packages do; it runs real applications through a series of scripted activities and uses the time a PC takes to complete those activities to produce its performance scores.
You can also download the Business Winstone 2004 Version 1.0.1 update file (3.8Mb). Note: you'll need an existing copy of Business Winstone 2004 Version 1.0 to use the update file.

BYTEcpu
OS: DOS, Windows   Download   Rating: 3/5 - 40K
The BYTEmark benchmark test suite is used to determine how the processor, its caches and coprocessors influence overall system performance.The BYTEmark test suite is especially valuable since it lets us directly compare computers with different processors and operating systems. The code used in BYTEmark tests simulates some of the real-world operations used by popular office and technical applications.

Cache Burst 32
OS: Win9x/Me/NT/2k/XP Download Homepage Rating:5/5 - 48K
Freeware
CacheBurst32 is a diagnostic and benchmarking utility designed to measure bandwidth and latency of computer memory and cache subsystems.

Cachemem
OS: DOS   Download   Rating: 4/5 - 40K
Freeware
CacheMem is a program that tests the read/write performance of your memory (cache and system RAM). It also tests the latency of the memory subsystem.

ctSPD
OS: Win9x/Me/NT/2000  Download Homepage Rating:4/5 - 756K
Freeware
This program, developed at german c't magazine, will give you comprehensive information on DIMMs installed in your system. Besides, it can write SPD contetns to a text file!

CDCheck
OS: Win9x/Me/NT/2000/XP Download Homepage Rating:4/5 - 697K
This program checks your CD-ROM (or some other media) and tells you which files are corrupted. It can also do a binary compare with copy on disk.

CD/DVD Diagnostic
OS: Win9x/Me/NT/2000/XP Download Homepage Rating:5/5 - 1.1Mb
The CD/DVD Diagnostic program is designed to assist in determining the contents of a CD-ROM, CD-R/W or DVD. It has several useful displays that provide substantially more information than Windows or many CD mastering programs. Also, it gives you the ability to examine all of the sessions on a multi-session disc without requiring additional software. For CD-RW discs this program provides some data recovery capability. If you have a CD-RW disc with inaccessible files, CD/DVD Diagnostic may be able to access them where other programs cannot.

CD/DVD Capabilities Viewer
OS: Win9x/Me/NT/2k/XP/Vista Download Homepage Rating:4/5 - 148K
Freeware
This utility displays capabilities of your CD/DVD drive (including CD/DVD Burners) not normally viewable from within Windows.

CDRom Drive Analyzer
OS: Win95/98/NT  Download Homepage Rating:4/5 - 243K
Freeware
CD-ROM Drive Analyzer Program was developed to test CD-ROM drive performance. In addition, this program will be useful for testing CD-ROM disk quality.

CDSpeed32
OS: Win95/98/NT/DOS/Unix  Download Homepage Rating:4/5 - 63K
CDspeed32 is a 32-bit multithread program for measuring CD-ROM sectors reading speed.

CD WinBench 99
OS: Win95/98/NT      Homepage    Rating: 5/5
CD WinBench 99 is a new ZD benchmark that focuses on CD-ROM operations and provides an overall comparative measure of a PC's CD-ROM subsystem's performance under Windows. Very good!

Central Brain Identifier 8.35  
OS: Win9x/NT/2k/XP  Download  Homepage Rating: 5/5 - 274Kb
Freeware
Central Brain Identifier is a powerful AMD processor identification utility. It provides quite comprehensive information about all AMD processors and also includes tweak features such as processor name modification, L1 Cache ECC control and Clock Control Register correction.

Central Brain Identifier Black Edition
OS: WinNT/2k/2k3/XP  Download  Homepage Screenshot
Rating: 4/5 - 203Kb
Freeware
Central Brain Identifier Black Edition - is a new version of Central Brain Identifier, developed from scratch. It is a powerful AMD processor identification utility (AMD64 or later architecture).

CHDDSPEED
OS: Win2k/XP Download  Rating:4/5 - 34K
Freeware
CHDDSPEED is a console utility, which tests the performance of various block devices (HDD, CD, Flash, etc.). This version (0.1) includes two tests: multisector read test and random read test.

CheckeMON
OS: Win9x/Me/NT/2k/XP  Download  Homepage Rating: 5/5 - 189Kb
Freeware
CheckeMON is a monitor tester that inlcudes 9 tests (Solid Colors, Convergence Dots, Convergence Lines, Color Gradients, Color Spectrum, Geometry, Moire Interference, Crosstalk and Power Supply). Brief explanation for each test is included.

CheckIt 5.0
OS: Win95/98       Download  Rating: 3/5 - 6.2Mb
CheckIt is a powerful 32-bit diagnostic utility. It helps you pinpoint problems, test system components, locate system conflicts, ect. Not bad.

ChipInfo
OS: Win9x/Me/NT/2k/XP/2k3 Download Homepage  Rating: 4/5 - 916K
Shareware $24.93
ChipInfo displays comprehensive information about the chipset, CPU, PCI bus, USB, etc. The information can be saved as a text file.

Ciusbet Hardware Benchmark
OS: Win9x/Me/NT/2k/XP Download Homepage  Rating: 4/5 - 11.8Mb
Freeware
Ciusbet Hardware BenchMark allows to analyze the performance of your processor, graphic card, hard disks, as well as the Internet connection speed. The program also offers a global test that combines all the tests. The results can be saved and/or compared with other systems. The program's interface is available in Spanish, English and French languages.

CliBench MK III SMP 0.7.17
OS: Win9x/Me/NT/2k/XP Download  Homepage Rating: 4/5 - 142Kb
CliBench is a suite of synthetic benchmarks that includes the following benchmarks: Dhrystones, Whetstones, Eight queens problem, Matrix operations, Number Crunching, Floating point, memory throughput, hard disk's throughput and the CPU usage.

CoDBench
OS: Win9x/Me/2k/XP  Download HomepageRating: 4/5 - 1.7Mb
Freeware
CoDBench is a freeware tool, which will automate much of the Call Of Duty benchmarking process. CoDBench requires the 1.2 version of Call of Duty Multiplay.

CoffeineMark 3.0
OS: Win95/98, Mac OS, Solaris, OS/2 Download  Homepage Rating: 4/5 - 70 Kb
The CaffeineMark is a series of tests that measure the speed of Java programs running in various hardware and software configurations. All the tests can be performed online as well as locally.

Cool Info FX
OS: Win9x/Me/NT/2K/XP  Download Homepage Rating: 3/5 - 12.7Mb
Shareware $49.95 (30 days evaluation period)
This program shows some system information about drives, files, memory, mobile systems, network, fonts, printers, keyboards, mice, monitors, video adapters, CPU's, and more. Allows for printing or exporting all information to database, text format, XML, etc.

Core Damage
OS: Win9x/Me/NT/2k/XP/Vista   Download Homepage Screenshot
Rating: 4/5 - 353Kb
Freeware
Core Damage is a powerful CPU stress tester that executes instructions at the maximum possible rate to reduce idling and increase heat output. This is the fastest and most effective way to check the cooling system and determine stability of an overclocked CPU under stressful conditions. The utility allows to set the priority and the number of threads.

Core2MaxPerf
OS: Win2k/XP/Vista   Download Homepage Screenshot
Rating: 4/5 - 112Kb
Freeware
Core2MaxPerf is a CPU stability tester that creates a maximum workload for Intel Core 2, Core i7, AMD Athlon, Opteron and Phenom processors.

CPUBENCH
OS: Win9x/Me/NT/2k/XP  Download  Homepage Rating: 4/5 - 246Kb
Freeware
This program is intended for CPU testing. It measures the MFLOPS and MIPS of your CPU, calculates Pi up to 5000 decimal digits, and determines the number of kilo pixel write operations per second, KPPS.

CPUBench2003
OS: Win9x/Me/NT/2k/XP Download   Rating: 5/5 - 7.4Mb
Freeware
CPUBench2003 is an efficient application that will test your CPU-Motherboard-Memory subsystem performance. It includes the following tests: integer, floating point, STREAM-based memory bandwidth benchmarks, 3D software raytracing, etc. These tests can be optimized for different architectures (SSE, SSE2, 3DNow!) and for running on SMP systems. Results can be compared to other systems and/or submitted to the online database. Besides, CPUBench2003 gives comprehensive system information.
If you want to add your results to the database: benchmark your system, save your project (File - Save project) and send it to the author of CPUBench2003 (emilioab@inwind.it).

CPUBurn
OS: Win95/98/Me/Linux         Download     Rating: 4/5 - 13Kb
Freeware
This program is designed to load x86 CPU's as heavily as possible for the purposes of system testing. It has been optimized for Intel's P6 core (Pentium Pro, Pentium II, Celeron and Pentium III) processors. It does not test every instruction. The goal has been to maximize heat production from the CPU, putting stress on the CPU itself, cooling system, motherboard (especially voltage regulators) and power supply. burnBX loads the Northbridge, RAM, and 3.3V power supply.

CPU Burner
OS: Win9x/Me/NT/2k/XP Download Homepage  Rating: 3/5 - 419Kb
Freeware
CPU Burner is a simple CPU stress-tester. Just press the Burn button to start the testing process, which will last until you interrupt it.

CPU Burn-in
OS: Win95/98         Download Homepage Rating: 4/5 - 6Kb
Freeware
CPU Burn-in is the ultimate stability testing tool for overclockers. The program heats up any x86 CPU to the maximum possible operating temperature that is achievable by using ordinary software. This allows the user to adjust the CPU speed up to the practical maximum while still being sure that stability is achieved even under the most stressful conditions. The program continuously monitors for erroneous calculations and errors ensuring the CPU does not generate errors during calculations performed under overclocking conditions.

CPUBM 1.15
OS: Win95/98       Download  Rating: 2/5 - 1.94Mb
This program measures the CPU performance. It runs an assimilation test and prints a value, representing your systemspeed. You can compare your result with a lot of other systems. But note, that these are averages, depending on your configuration, so your score may differ!

CPU Grave
OS: Win9x/Me/NT/2k/XP Download Homepage  Rating: 4/5 - 398Kb
Shareware $3
CPU Grave benchmarks your CPU and shows the result, which can be easily compared to other baselines. Besides, the program shows some information about the CPU and lets you take a screenshot by double-clicking on the program's window.

CPU Hi-t PE
OS: Win9x/Me/NT/2k/XP Download Homepage  Rating: 4/5 - 3Mb
Freeware
CPU Hi-t PE is intended for CPU stability testing. It allows to test your CPU with 4 tests. You can manually adjust the test running time. CPU Hi-t's interface supports two languages - english and russian.

CPU Identification 1.75
OS: Win9x/Me/NT/2k/XP Download Homepage  Rating: 4/5 - 46Kb
Freeware
CPU Identification detects your computers processor and reports supported functions, cache size, features and clock speed. Also reports on the CPUs Model, family and stepping information and processor serial number if present.

CpuIDMAX
OS: Win9x/Me/NT/2000  Download Homepage  Rating: 4/5 - 376K
Freeware
This program shows cache info, model info, cpu speed and lots of others things about the cpu. Besides, it is able to benchmark the cpu. All information can be saved in a text file.

CPUInfo
OS: Win9x/Me/NT/2k/XP  Download Homepage  Rating: 4/5 - 261K
CPUInfo shows detailed informations about the processors on the mainboard. It detects the processor type and manufacturer, the clock ratio, level 1 and level 2 cache and the processor instruction set extensions. Additional it shows the feature flags and some Windows processor informations.

CPU Free BenchMark 2.2
OS: Win9x/Me/NT/2k/XP  Download Homepage  Rating: 4/5 - 164K
Freeware
CPU Free BenchMark (former CPUMark 2) is a CPU benchmark, which includes 3 tests: register operations, floating-point operations, integer operations. The results can be submitted to the online results database.

CPU MathMARK
OS: Win9x/Me/NT/2000   Download  Homepage Rating: 4/5 - 152K
Freeware
This program runs several benchmarks on your processor to test its math capabilities. It runs addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division tests, and also runs a prime number test, pi test, and a long multiplication test. Compare you system with other systems. You can save and load baselines to compare you system with too.

CPU Speed Professional
OS: Win9x/Me/NT/2k/XP/Vista  Download  Homepage Screenshot
Rating: 5/5 - 1.2Mb
Freeware
CPU Speed Professional is a standalone application that measures the REAL speed of your Intel or AMD central processor unit (CPU). It features a stunning interface with elegant animations and screen transitions. Click the 'Test My Speed' button and watch as CPU Speed ramps up your computer's processor to full throttle. The MHz needle swings around a handsome 'speedo' style dial to display your cpu speed. Click the 'Show CPU Details' button to see more detailed information about your system, including cpu manufacturer, published speed, memory configuration and more. After you have tested your CPU speed, you can choose to submit the result to the CPU speed online ranking site so that you can compare your speed with other ones from around the world.

CPUSpy
OS: Win9x/Me/NT/2k/XP Download Homepage  Rating: 4/5 - 36Kb
Shareware $6.50
CPUSpy interrogates your processor and displays CPUID data in a easy to read tabbed format. L1, L2 and L3 cache data is fully broken down as are the processor flags. In addition, CPUSpy can measure your current CPU speed in MHz, Windows Up-Time, IP address, Window Version and memory status, etc. Processor data can be saved in a report file.

CPU RightMark  
OS: Win9x/Me/NT/2k/XP  Download  Homepage Rating: 5/5 - 3.2Mb
Freeware
The CPU RightMark benchmark is meant for objective performance measurement of modern and future CPUs in various computational tasks such as computational modeling of physical processes and solving of 3D graphics problems. The emphasis is placed on testing under the load of a CPU-RAM link and FPU/SIMD units.

CPU RightMark Lite 2005
OS: Win9x/Me/NT/2k/XP  Download  Homepage Rating: 5/5 - 3.1Mb
Freeware
CPU RightMark Lite is a cross-platform edition of CPU RightMark for x86/IA-64. Here are the main differences from the full version: CPU Performance test only, no support for batch files, FPU/SSE2/SSE3 Solver and FPU+MMX/FPU+EMMX/SSE/SSE3 Renderer modules (no 3DNow!/extended 3DNow! support), requires no DirectX hardware/software, support for x86-AMD64 platform is planned in the future.

CPU Stability Test
OS: Win95/98         Download     Rating: 3/5 - 569K
This program will let you know if your computer is stable or not. After the test you'll get your stability rating and some information about errors, crashes, ect.

CPU-Z 1.63  
OS: Win9x/Me/NT/2k/XP/Vista/7 Download Homepage  Rating: 5/5 - 1.6Mb
CPU-Z is a tool that provides some informations on your CPU: processor name and vendor, core stepping and process, processor package, internal and external clocks, clock multiplier, partial overclock detection, processor features, including supported instructions sets, L1 and L2 cache informations : location, size, speed, technology.

CrazyMemTester
OS: DOS    Download   Rating: 4/5 - 17Kb
Freeware
CrazyMemTest measures the speed of information interchange between CPU and RAM.

CrystalCPUID
OS: Win9x/Me/NT/2k/XP Download Homepage  Rating: 4/5 - 400K
Freeware
CrystalCPUID is a CPU identification utility, which shows quite comprehensive information about your CPU, memory and BIOS. All the data can be saved in a report file (text or graphic formats). Moreover, CrystalCPUID lets you change Athlon 64's, Athlon XP, and also some VIA processors', multiplier directly under Windows!

CrystalDiskMark
OS: Win98/Me/2k/XP/Vista Download Homepage Screenshot
Rating: 3/5 - 699K
Freeware
CrystalDiskMark is designed to quickly test the performance of your hard drives. Currently, the program allows to measure sequential and random read/write speeds.

CrystalDMI
OS: Win9x/Me/NT/2k/XP/Vista Download Homepage  Rating: 4/5 - 143K
Freeware
CrystalDMI displays the DMI (Desktop Management Interface) and SMBIOS (System Management BIOS) information, which includes a wide variety of data about the current system, its processor, cache, memory, etc.

CrystalMark 2004
OS: Win9x/Me/NT/2k/XP Download Homepage  Rating: 4/5 - 2.4Mb
Freeware
CrystalMark is a benchmark suite, which lets you test your CPU, memory, HDD and video (GDI, Direct Draw, OpenGL) subsystems. The program also shows some information about your system. The report can be saved in a text or HTML file.

CINEBENCH 11.5
OS: Win2k/XP/Vista/Win64/Mac  Download HomepageRating: 5/5 - 138Mb
Freeware
CINEBENCH 11.5 is a benchmarking tool based on the powerful 3D software CINEMA 4D. Test results conducted using CINEBENCH 11.5 carry significant weight when analyzing a computer's performance in everyday use. Especially a system's CPU and the OpenGL capabilities of its graphics card are put through their paces (even multiprocessor systems with up to 16 dedicated CPUs or processor cores). During the testing procedure, all relevant data is ascertained with which the performance of different computers can subsequently be compared, regardless of operating system. CINEBENCH 11.5 is available for Windows 32-bit and 64-bit operating systems and as a "Universal Binary" version for Apple Macintosh computers with PowerPC or Intel Core Duo processors. The database functionality and simple export allow for easy statistical data collection.

ClothSimMark
OS: Win98/Me/2k/XP  Download Homepage Rating: 4/5 - 154Kb
Freeware
ClothSimMark will allow you to benchmark your video subsystem by demonstrating 3D scenes with various cloth models (tablecloths, flags, garments...) blowing in the wind. You can freely move around them: you can examine each single wrinkle under every angulation. But ClothSim isn't limited to this: you can change the wind speed, stop the time, and ask for a series of statistical informations. Press 't' to get some stats.

CST (CPU Stress Test)
OS: WinXP/Vista  Download  Homepage Screenshot
Rating: 4/5 - 82Kb
Freeware
CST is a simple yet effective CPU stress tester that uses SSE instructions to generate workload. The utility continuously executes 3 tests and displays brief CPU information.

D-test
OS: Win2k/XP/Vista       Download  Homepage Screenshot
Rating: 4/5 - 2.6Mb
Shareware $15
D-test is a powerful test tool for helping you to adjust correctly your monitor main settings. Main features include: resolution test card from 640x480 to 2560x2048; custom resolution support; adjustable collinearity grid; various color tests (RGB, CMYK, Spectrum, Gradient, custom color etc.); contrast, luminance staircase, PLUGE, SMPTE; gamma correction card; refresh test, subpixel layout, clock&phase, anti-aliasing and more.

D3D RightMark
OS: Win98/Me/XP  Download  Homepage Rating: 5/5 - 6Mb
Freeware
D3D RightMark is a set of synthetic tests for you DirectX9-compliant video subsystem. D3D RightMark's main features include: support for the latest DirectX 9 technologies, llexible and deep control of all benchmarking parameters, hardware feautures list, HTML and XLS (Microsoft Office XP compatible) result reports, modular structure (new tests can be easily integrated into shell), etc.

D3DGear
OS: Win2000/XP/Vista/7  Download  Homepage Screenshot
Rating: 4/5 - 5.3Mb
Shareware $24.95
D3DGear is an advanced Windows ingame utility software for 3D games. With D3DGear, you can measure framerate (FPS) of 3D game, capture 3D game screenshot, record 3D game into a movie and analyze 3D game performance. You even can use D3DGear to access Windows desktop within game. To use D3DGear, simply launch D3DGear prior to start 3D game, the framerate of 3D game will be automatically measured and displayed on screen; capturing screenshot, recording movie and analyze rendering performance will be as simple as pressing a hotkey. D3DGear supports DirectX and OpenGL API.

Dacris Benchmarks 8
OS: WinXP/Vista/7  Download Homepage Screenshot
Rating: 4/5 - 30Mb - Shareware $12.99
Dacris Benchmarks 8 is a total revamp of Dacris Benchmarks. It is a performance testing tool for your Windows PC. You can use Dacris Benchmarks to determine the speed of the CPU, memory, hard drive, video card, and other hardware components.

Dacris Benchmarks Lite
OS: Win9x/Me/NT/2K/XP  Download Homepage Rating: 4/5 - 195Kb - Freeware
With this freeware version of Dacris Benchmarks, you can perform basic tests and view system information on any computer with Windows 95 or better. It is small enough to put on a floppy disk and use to test systems where Dacris Benchmarks .NET may not be useable.

Datamarck
OS: WinXP/Vista  Download  Homepage Screenshot
Rating: 4/5 - 570Kb
Freeware
This program measures the read performance (in MB/s) and seek times (in ms) of hard drives, flash sticks or any other external storage device. The collected performance data can be shared and compared with the online stored benchmark database. Datamarck also shows some basic information about the available devices and has an attractive GUI.

DDC Test
OS: Win95/98       Download  Homepage Rating: 4/5 - 138K
This little utility will tell you more than you probably ever wanted to know about your Plug and Play monitor.

Dead Pixel Tester
OS: Win98/Me/2k/XP  Download Homepage Rating: 5/5 - 188Kb
Freeware
Dead Pixel Tester allows to test you screen for dead pixels by cycling through different colours (you can pick any colour). The utility also includes a selection of patterns and test screens, as well as a feature called Stuck Pixel Exerciser, which can help you cure stuck pixels.

DIAG
OS: DOS  Download  Homepage Rating: 4/5 - 540Kb
Shareware 10 EURO
DIAG is the diagnostic program, which detects, tests and benchmarks you entire hard- and software. It knows a lot of hardware and can test your motherboard, CPU, videocard, HDD, CD-ROM, etc.

DISCInfo
OS: Win9x/Me/NT/2k/XP Download Homepage Rating: 4/5 - 219Kb
Freeware
DISCInfo is a program to display hardware informations from an IDE/SCSI device under Windows operating system. The most useful thing of the program is to show useful informations about CD/DVD-ROM devices. With the latest version program is also capable of using identified info about a CD/DVD drive to pass parameters to main firmware page and look for the firmware update files on it.

Disk Bench
OS: Win9x/Me/NT/2k/XP/Vista/7  Download  Homepage Rating: 4/5 - 174Kb
Freeware
Disk Bench tests your hard drive speed in a real life situation not in a benchmarking environment. All it does is copies a file from A to B, times the time it took, and deletes the file from B again. Theoretically, it can test not only hard drives. You will need to have .net framework installed. You can get this from windowsupdate or from MSDN Downloads.

Disk Speed
OS: Win9x/Me/NT/2k/XP  Download  Homepage Rating: 4/5 - 40K
Freeware
This program tests the speed of drives attached to your computer. Disk Speed reports the linear read transfer rate, the random read transfer rate and also the access time of the drive.

DiskSpeed32
OS: Win9x/Me/NT/2k/XP Download  Homepage Rating: 4/5 - 64K
DiskSpeed32 is a hard drive speed analyzer. DiskSpeed32 reads sequently sectors of hard drive and plots a dependence of reading speed by cylinder number. Allows to test formatted and not formatted hard drives as well. Allows to check hard drives performance and to find mapped tracks on hard drives.

Direct3D Test
OS: Win95/98       Download  Rating: 3/5 - 200K
This program measures the Direct3D performance on your system.

DocMemory  
OS: Win9x/Me/NT/2k/XP  Download  Homepage Rating: 5/5 - 200K
Freeware
DocMemory, an advanced self-bootable PC Memory Diagnostic Software is a user friendly software designed to capture all possible memory failures in PC. DocMemory supports all types of memory such as EDO, Fast Page Mode, SDRAM, DDR-2, FB-DIMM, Rambus DIMM and SODIMM!

DoubleMark
OS: Win9x/Me/NT/2k/XP/Vista Download Homepage Screenshot
Rating: 4/5 - 67K
Freeware
DoubleMark is a CPU benchmarking and stress testing application based on the prime number calculation. It fully supports multicore systems, no matter how many cores on the machine the program automatically divides up and sets up the loops in the benchmarking and stressing to that number. DoubleMark has a dependancy on the .NET Framework, version 3.0 is required.

Drive!
OS: Windows NT   Download  Homepage Rating: 5/5 - 567K
This program will measure the performance of your hard drives, running under Windows NT.

Drive Speed Checker
OS: Win9x/Me/NT/2k/XP  Download  Homepage Rating: 4/5 - 807K
Freeware
Drive Speed Checker is an application that will help you analyze the speed of your hard drive. It includes 3 main speed comparisons: Single Drive Detailed Check, multiple drive read/write comparison and multiple drive copy speed comparison.

DroneZmarK
OS: Win98/Me/2000  Download  Homepage Rating: 5/5 - 62Mb
Freeware
DroneZmarK is a next-generation benchmark / rolling demo exploiting the latest in 3D technology. It exploits nVidia's nFiniteFX engine, Intel's Pentium 4 processor, has full 3D sound with reverberation, many benchmarking and video options, features two songs by Meridiano Zero. 256 Mb of RAM are required for optimal quality and smooth action.

Dr. Hardware 2009  
OS: Win9x/Me/NT/2k/XP/Vista/7 Download Homepage Rating:5/5 - 2.5M
Shareware $19
One of the most thorough and up-to-date PC analysis programs! It performs the detailed analysis of compatible PCs and their components: Processor, BIOS, Cache, Bus, Fixed Disks, CD ROM, Modem, VGA, AGP test, ect. It also performs benchmarks of CPU, graphics, hard disks, CD ROM, Net, ect. And more!
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Dr.Hardware 9.0
OS: DOS Download Homepage Rating:5/5 - 686Kb
Shareware $28
DOS version of Dr.Hardware! Suited for the "naked" computer! Fits on one boot floppy disk. Stays up-to-date due to regular updates! It performs the detailed analysis of compatible PCs and their components: Processor, BIOS, Cache, Bus, Fixed Disks, CD ROM, Modem, VGA, AGP test, ect. It also performs benchmarks of CPU, graphics, hard disks, CD ROM, Net, ect. And more!
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DVDInfoPro  
OS: Win98/Me/NT/2k/XP Download Homepage Rating: 5/5 - 4Mb
Download 64-bit version for Windows XP/2003 x64
Freeware/Adware
DVDInfoPro is a freeware DVD information program written in Visual C++. The program provides information & tools for DVD-R/RW, DVD+R/RW burners, DVD-ROM players. It also provides limited information on CD players & burners. The program's major features include: CD/DVD Speed & Error Test functions, expanded Drive & Media Info sections, Quick Erase & Fast Format functions for DVD-R/RW & DVD+R/RW, and more!

DVD Identifier
OS: Win9x/Me/NT/2k/XP Download Homepage Rating: 4/5 - 1Mb
Freeware
DVD Identifier retrieves and interprets the pre-recorded information that is present on DVD media (DVD+R, DVD+R DL, DVD+RW, DVD+RW DL, DVD-R, DVD-R DL, DVD-RW, DVD-RAM) and on Blu-Ray media (BD-R, BD-RE). This information contains a variety of parameters such as disc manufacturing information and supported write speeds. Even though this information is usually printed on the packaging, the brand name may differ from the actual manufacturer or sometimes there might not even be any packaging information at all. DVD Identifier offers a reliable method of accurately identifying the disc's real manufacturer.

DVD Speed 99
OS: Win95/98/NT      Download  Rating: 4/5 - 165K
And this is a benchmark for DVD-ROM Drive! It also performs Transfer Rate Test, Random, 1/3 and full seek test, CPU utilization test, Burst rate test, ect.

EFD Inspector
OS: Win2000/XP/2k3/Vista  Download  Homepage Screenshot
Rating: 5/5 - 252Kb
Freeware
EFD Inspector is a small program, which quickly gathers the most important information about your system (including, OS, CPU, RAM, HDD, Video, etc.). All the information can be exported to PNG, TXT or HTML file formats.

EVEREST Ultimate Edition 5.50  
OS: Win9x/Me/NT/2k/XP/Vista/7  Download  Homepage Rating: 5/5 - 9.5Mb
Shareware $34.95 - Purchase
EVEREST Ultimate Edition is a system diagnostics and benchmarking solution, based on the award-winning EVEREST Technology. During system optimizations and tweaking it provides essential system and overclock information, advanced hardware monitoring and diagnostics capabilities to check the effects of the applied settings. CPU, FPU and memory benchmarks are available to measure the actual system performance and compare it to previous states or other systems. Furthermore, complete software, operating system and security information makes EVEREST Ultimate Edition a comprehensive system diagnostics tool that offers a total of 100 pages of information about your PC.

EVEREST Corporate Edition 5.50  
OS: Win9x/Me/NT/2k/XP/Vista/7  Download  Homepage Rating: 5/5 - 9.9Mb
Shareware $99.75 - Purchase
EVEREST Corporate Edition is an automated network audit, system change tracking and network monitoring solution for small and large corporate enterprises, based on the award-winning EVEREST Technology. EVEREST Corporate Edition is an indispensable application for all business network environments that uses the latest technologies including XML and MHTML reporting, full SQL database and Windows Server 2003 support. EVEREST Corporate Edition offers customers a flexible way to collect hardware and software assets information into CSV files or SQL database, and produce a complete network audit based on the collected information. By offering multiple instances of audit it enables customers to keep an archive of assets information, and also offers a unique way to accurately detect any software or hardware changes in the enterprise.

EIZO Monitortest
OS: Win98/Me/2k/XP  Download Homepage Rating: 5/5 - 522Kb
Freeware
EIZO Monitortest is a utility, which allows to thoroughly test and adjust your monitor. It includes 24 tests (basic colors, moire, geometry, convergence, speed, sharpness, etc.). Each test is provided with a short description. EIZO Monitortest has a friendly and stylish interface, which supports the following languages: English, German and Czech.

EVA Bench
OS: Win9x/ME/NT/2000  Download  Homepage Rating: 3/5 - 27Mb
Shareware
EVA Bench is a benchmark program, made on the engine similar to N-Bench, that will test your video sub-system's performance. It uses some of the DirectX 8 features, 3DNow!, Enhanced 3DNow!, SSE. It also has a Demo Mode that can be used as a benchmark too, due to displaying the FPS rate.

FableMark
OS: Win9x/Me/NT/2k/XP  Download  Homepage Rating: 4/5 - 9.2Mb
Freeware
FableMark is a benchmark program featuring a puppet theatre in which a well-known fable, "The Hare and the Tortoise", is performed. Every object in the scene has soft-edged shadows projected onto the stage background and the rendering of these accurate shadows form the basis of this benchmark.

Fast Floating Fractal Fun
OS: Win9x/ME/NT/2k/XP  Download  Homepage Rating: 4/5 - 110Kb
Freeware
Fast Floating Fractal Fun (FFFF) tests the Floating Point performance of processors by generating fractals. It supports SSE, SSE2, 3DNow!, SMP. Uses OpenGL.

FCPUID 1.0
OS: Win9x/ME/NT/2k/XP  Download Homepage Rating: 4/5 - 390Kb
Freeware
This nice French program will provide you with full information about your CPU. All information can be saved in a text of html-file, copied to clipboard or printed! Moreover, FCPUID can make the screenshots of its tabs in a JPEG-file. The interface is bilingual: it has French and English versions.

FD Tach 0.9
OS: Win2k/XP  Download Homepage Rating: 4/5 - 709Kb
Shareware
FD Tach is a benchmark targeted towards flash devices. It is based on the new Tach benchmark library written for the recently released HD Tach. FD Tach has a few tests, including: read and write speed tests, access speed test, etc.

FillrateBenchmark
OS: Win9x/Me/NT/2k/XP  Download  Homepage Rating: 4/5 - 915Kb
Freeware
FillrateBenchmark can be used to benchmark you video card's FillRate as well as its Pixel Shading power. It has more than 15 tests, including: Color Fill, Z Fill, Color+Z Fill, Single Texture Alpha Blend, PS 2.0 Simple, PS 2.0 Partial Precision, etc.

Final Fantasy XI
Official Benchmark 3
OS: Win98/Me/NT/2k/XP  Download  Homepage Rating: 4/5 - 54Mb
Freeware
Official benchmark software, based on the Final Fantasy XI game engine, displays actual maps and characters, and allows you to check your PC's score for actual play of FINAL FANTASY XI for Windows.

Final Reality
OS: Win95/98   Download   Homepage Rating: 5/5 - 7.7Mb
Very good program, that measures your graphics speed. You can save the results and compare to other systems. You also can measure the speed of your AGP bus.

Find MAC Address
OS: Win2k/XP/2k3/Vista  Download Homepage Screenshot
Rating: 5/5 - 2Mb
Shareware $25
With Find MAC Address, you can find the MAC address of your or remote computer and also of any computer within the specified range of IP addresses. Unlike similar software, Find MAC Address can find the MAC addresses of computers using four methods (ARP, NetBios, NetAPI, WMI). The program can not only find the MAC address of a computer, but also detect the manufacturer of its network card. You can save the scan results to a file in one of the following formats: XML, HTML, TXT, CSV, etc.

FOG City
OS: Win95/98       Download  Rating: 5/5 - 3Mb
This program measures the Direct3D and OpenGL speed.

FRAPS 3.5.9  
OS: Win2k/XP/2k3/Vista/7   Download  Homepage Rating: 5/5 - 2Mb
Shareware $37
This program is designed as a generic tool to monitor framerates in DirectX and OpenGL games. It can best be described as: benchmarking software (see framerates on screen and log them to file, calculate the average framerate between any two points), screen capture software (take screenshots at the press of a button with files automatically named and timestamped), movie maker software (realtime recording of your gameplay to high quality AVI video files). Requires a Pentium 3, Pentium 4, or Athlon XP processor (SSE instructions).
You can also download the free version of FRAPS 1.9D, which supports Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2K/XP and requires a Pentium 2 or later processor.

FreshDiagnose
OS: Win9x/Me/NT/2000/XP/Vista/7  Download  Homepage Rating: 5/5 - 949Kb
Freeware
Fresh Diagnose is an utility designed to analyze and benchmark your computer system. It can analyze and benchmark many kinds of hardware, such as CPU, memory, network, hard disk performance, comprehensive system information, including hardware resources and network information, and more.

GCPUID
OS: Win9x/Me/NT/2k/XP Download Homepage  Rating: 4/5 - 394Kb
Freeware
GCPUID is a CPU identification utility, which shows common information about you CPU, cache and memory. GCPUID also supports motherboard temperature monitoring by means of Motherboard Monitor 5.

Geekbench 2.4
OS: Win2k/XP/2003/Vista/7/8   Download  Homepage Rating: 4/5 - 5.5Mb
Download Geekbench 2.3 for Linux
Freeware
Geekbench is a cross-platform benchmark suite designed to measure the performance an average application can expect from both the processor and the memory subsystem. Geekbench uses a number of different benchmarks to measure system performance, including: integer performance (Emulate 6502, Blowfish, bzip2 Compress and bzip2 Decompress), Floating Point Performance (Mandelbrot, JPEG Compress and JPEG Decompress, etc.), Memory Performance (Read Sequential, Write Sequential, Stdlib Allocate, Stream Performance, etc.). Mac OS X and Solaris versions of Geekbench are available at the author's website.

GL_EXT_reme
OS: Win9x/Me/2000  Download  Homepage Rating: 4/5 - 116Kb
Freeware
This is a small benchmarking utility, which measures how well a graphic card can handle overdraw, it's fillrates, T&L, etc. Upon the tests completion, GL_EXT_reme will save the results to a text file.

GL Mark
OS: Win9x/Me/2000  Download  Homepage Rating: 5/5 - 55Mb
Freeware
GLmark is a benchmarking program that is intended to test the performance and visual quality delivered by modern 3D accelerators in a "real world" setting. GLmark is based entirely on the OpenGL graphics API. It requires a minimum of 128Mb RAM and OpenGL 1.2 compatible accelerator card supporting the ARB_multitexture extension with at least two texture units (i.e. 3DFX Voodoo 2 and higher, nVidia TNT and higher, Matrox G400 and higher, ATI Rage 128 and higher)!

GLClock
OS: Win9x/Me/2000  Download  Homepage Rating: 4/5 - 918Kb
Freeware
GLClock shows off a real-time rendered clock (via OpenGL) which you can apply different environment, textures to to make it look awesome. Prepare for something that looks really nice! The program can be used to compare speeds as it has a built in benchmarking feature. There is also a .exe file available, which will let you use this program as screensaver.

GLInfo
OS: Win95/98/NT4/2000   Download  Rating: 4/5 - 202Kb
Freeware
This handy little utility lets you examine your OpenGL driver's capabilities in detail. GLInfo provides a list of all supported pixel formats, supported OpenGL extensions, and details about the driver's implementation-specific limitations (max. texture size, stack depths, ect). GLInfo can also save its reports to a text file.

GoldMemory 6.92
OS: DOS/Windows   Download  Homepage Rating: 4/5 - 653Kb
Shareware $29
GoldMemory is a thorough stand-alone memory tester. It's the easy way to find memory errors, incompatibility between memory modules and motherboard, incorrect settings, etc. Test is running up to 4GB of memory.

GpBench/CD
OS: Win95/98/NT4/2000         Download     Rating: 3/5 - 585Kb
Another program that measures the performance of your CD- or DVD-ROM drive.

GPU Caps Viewer
OS: WinXP/Vista Download Homepage Screenshot
Rating: 4/5 - 5.1Mb
Freeware
GPU Caps Viewer (previously known as HardwareInfos) is a tiny tool that quickly provides essential information regarding the graphics controller (graphics card / GPU type, amount of video memory, drivers version) and its capabilities under OpenGL. The CPU/GPU information can be exported to a convenient XML file. It is also possible to display the OpenGL extensions list supported by the graphics card or display all existing OpenGL extensions no matter what graphics card you have. GPU Caps Viewer also includes a GPU Burner feature, which allows to make the GPU temperature climb in order to test the graphics card stability. You can actually open as many 3D views as you want in order to make your graphics card working to the maximum. For NVIDIA cards, the GPU temperature is also displayed.

GPU Shark
OS: Win2k/XP/Vista/7 Download Homepage Screenshot Rating: 4/5 - 535Kb
Freeware
GPU Shark is a simple, lightweight and free GPU monitoring tool for GeForce and Radeon based graphics cards. GPU Shark offers a global view of all your graphics cards in a single window. In simplified mode (default), only the essential hardware information is displayed: graphics card name, temperatures (GPU, PCB) and clocks (GPU, memory and shader). In detailed mode all data is available: GPU codename, driver version, bios version, device ID, etc.

GPU-Z
OS: Win2k/XP/Vista Download Homepage Screenshot Rating: 5/5 - 344Kb
Freeware
GPU-Z is a lightweight utility designed to give you all information about your video card and GPU. It displays adapter, GPU and display information, including default clocks and 3D clocks, GPU name, technology, memory type and size, bus width, shaders, etc. Support NVIDIA and ATI cards.

Gun Metal Benchmark
OS: Win9x/Me/NT/2k/XP  Download  Homepage Rating: 4/5 - 50Mb
Freeware
Gun Metal Benchmark measures the performance of your video subsytem. It uses the Gun Metal game engine to generate 3D scenes that incorporate features and functions designed to really push the latest DirectX 9 compatible 3D accelerators to the limit.

HARDiNFO 7
OS: WinXP/2003/VIsta/2008/7  Download Homepage Screenshot
Rating: 5/5 - 23Mb
Freeware / Commercial $25.97 - $495
HARDiNFO 7 is a System Information, Diagnostic, Network Audit and Monitor, Hardware Inventory, Benchmark and Computer Management application designed to be used by Small Business to Large Business and Professionals. HARDiNFO 7 displays the hardware information in well organized categories with high quality graphical representation of each hardware component for fast and easy understanding. HARDiNFO 7 Enterprise (commercial edition) is the system information application which supports detection of hardware configuration from an Internet/LAN network computer without having to install it on your entire network.

HDDScan
OS: Win2k/XP  Download Homepage Screenshot
Rating: 4/5 - 1.6Mb
Freeware
HDDScan is a program for low-level HDD diagnostics, which supports IDE/SATA/SCSI hard disk drives, RAID arrays, external USB/Firewire hard disks, flash cards. The program can scan the surface, view SMART attributes, adjust AAM, APM (Power Management), etc.

HD_Speed
OS: WinNT/2k/XP  Download Homepage Rating: 4/5 - 45Kb
Freeware
This program measures both sustained and burst data transfer rates of your hard disks, cd/dvd-roms and floppy. It features a realtime graphical display.

HDD UTILity
OS: Win95/98  Download Rating: 5/5 - 3Mb
HDD UTILity - is a suite, that consist of five utilities: HDD Alert UTILity, HDD Benchmark UTILity, HDD Control UTILity, HDD Info UTILity, and HDD Test&Repair UTILity! It seems, that it is one of the best in its class!

HDD Speed 2.1
OS: DOS       Download  Rating: 5/5 - 437K
This is a realistic HDD Benchmark! It also shows you all info about your hard drives and supports SCSI, EIDE, U/DMA, S.M.A.R.T., ect. VERY good russian program. One of the Best!

HD Tach 3.0.4.0
OS: Win2k/XP  Download Homepage Rating: 4/5 - 1.2Mb
Shareware
HD Tach is a low level hardware benchmark for random access read/write storage devices such as hard drives, removable drives (ZIP/JAZZ), flash devices, and RAID arrays. HD Tach uses custom device drivers and other low level Windows interfaces to bypass as many layers of software as possible and get as close to the physical performance of the device possible. The trial version of HD Tach measures the sequential read speed (at various points on the device), the random access speed, interface burst speed and CPU utilization of the drive. The registered version adds sequential write testing.

HD Tune
OS: Win2k/XP  Download Homepage Rating: 5/5 - 476Kb
Freeware
HD Tune is a Hard Disk utility which can be used to measure the performance or to get important information from the hard disk such as the temperature, SMART parameters, firmware version, buffer size, etc.

HD Tune Pro
OS: Win2k/XP/Vista  Download Homepage Screenshot
Rating: 5/5 - 1Mb
Shareware $34.95
HD Tune Pro is an extended version of HD Tune which includes many new features such as: write benchmark, secure erasing, AAM setting, folder usage view, disk monitor, command line parameters and file benchmark.

Heart Beat
OS: Win9x/Me/NT/2k/XP  Download Homepage Rating: 4/5 - 375Kb
Shareware $10
Heart Beat is a multi platform system performance test program. It works by timing itself as it performs various pre defined programming functions, such as mathematical operations, variable passing in and out of memory and reading and writing to disc. Results can be saved and Heart Beat can then make graphical comparisons between different result sets.

HeavyLoad 3.1
OS: Win9x/Me/NT/2k/XP/Vista/2008/7  Download Homepage Rating: 4/5 - 4.6Mb
Freeware
HeavyLoad simulates heavy activity on a PC, it allows you to test if a workstation or server PC is working stable under heavy load. It stresses processor, memory and hard disks, operating system, etc.

Hnet Info
OS: Win9x/Me/NT/2k/XP  Download Homepage Rating: 5/5 - 3.5Mb
Shareware $69
Hnet Info is a large system product. This product is determined for work with Intranet/Internet and for detection hardware components. Hnet Info contains 28 modules. Separate modules are part of unit such as detection and diagnostics hardware, benchmark tests (CPU, HDD, memory, video card, CD-ROM/RW/DVD, OpenGL). Network analysis and full mapping network inclusive of network statistics. FTP client contains large element of files manager. FTP server, chat, sms client and IP telephony can use for intradepartmental Telephony network. Hnet Info also contains Web download, module remote administration PC, e-mail client, encrypting files, backup files directories and registers, and much more!

Hot CPU Tester 4.4
OS: Win9x/Me/NT/2k/XP/Vista  Download Homepage Rating: 5/5 - 1.7Mb
Shareware $19.95
Hot CPU Tester is a system stability tester. It tests CPU, and virtually all part of motherboard units for errors. It uses SSE, MMX and AMD 3DNow! instruction sets, supports multiprocessor systems and has the built-in anti-crash and error detector, ect. Limitations: some features are not available in this free lite version.

HWiNFO
OS: DOS  Download Homepage Rating: 4/5 - 710Kb
Freeware
Hardware Info (HWiNFO) is a powerful system information utility designed especially for detection of hardware. It's able to identify a large scale of system components and supports the latest technologies and standards. This tool is periodically updated (usually once per month) in order to provide most accurate results.

HWiNFO32
OS: WinNT/2k/XP/Vista  Download Homepage Rating: 4/5 - 1.9Mb
Freeware
Hardware Info 32 (HWiNFO32) is a powerful system information utility designed especially for detection of hardware. It's able to identify a large scale of system components and supports the latest technologies and standards. Althrough HWiNFO32 is developed for Win32 subsystem, it is designed for NT technology, which means it achieves best results while running under Microsoft Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000, XP or Vista. However, you can run HWiNFO32 under Microsoft Windows 9x/Me, but some features may be reported incorrectly.

HWM BlackBox
OS: Win2k/XP/Vista  Download Homepage Screenshot
Rating: 4/5 - 1Mb
Freeware
BlackBox is a utility designed to deliver precise details on the core components of your computer. The utility provides you with in-depth hardware information, including processor, memory modules, mainboard, hard drives and video card. It also offers the opportunity to assess critical parameters such as clock speeds and temperatures. BlackBox also presents Vista–compatible tools to test your computer's performance under Microsoft Windows Vista.

i-Bench 5.0
OS: Windows 2000 SP2Download Homepage Rating: 5/5 - 70Mb
Freeware
i-Bench is a comprehensive, cross-platform benchmark that tests the performance and capability of Web clients as they take on the latest Web technology and features. The benchmark provides a series of tests that measure both how well the client handles features and the degree to which network access speed affects performance. i-Bench is not currently offered as an online application, you may, however, run it over your own local area network. You can also find some nuts-and-bolts instructions for setting up your own i-Bench server.

IDEdrive 2
OS: Win9x/Me/NT/2k/XP  Download Homepage Rating: 4/5 - 220Kb
Freeware
IDEdrive interrogates your IDE-drives and displays detailed information about them (geometry, features, transfer modes, etc.).

Indy3D
OS: Win95/98/NT/HP-UX/IRIX/Solaris   Homepage    Rating: 5/5
The Indy3D benchmark evaluation tool is focused on three segments of the 3D graphics market, MCAD, Animation, and Simulation. One of the best programs for OpenGL accelerators! The minimum RAM requirement is 128 MBytes!

InetBench
OS: Win9x/Me/NT/2k/XP  Download Homepage Rating: 4/5 - 2.7Mb
Freeware
InetBench is an internet benchmark program that actually gives you practical, real-world measurements of exactly how fast - or slow - your internet connection really is. Unlike other benchmark tests, InetBench downloads the actual HTML and graphics files for web sites that you specify.

iiyama Monitor Test
OS: Win9x/Me/NT/2k/XP  Download Homepage Rating: 5/5 - 2.6Mb
Freeware
This is a monitor test and calibration tool. It includes the following tests: geometry, convergence, moire, focus, readability, colour, high voltage, LCD.

Info Bag Pro
OS: WinXP  Download Homepage Rating: 4/5 - 5.4Mb
Freeware
Info Bag Pro is a neat and simple application that reads low-level hardware information such as CPU Speeds, Installed RAM, Graphic Card Capabilities, Network Performance, Download Speeds, Connected Printers, Disk Temperatures and many others to help users understand what hardware components their system is made of. Then all this information is presented in a clean fashion making it easy and fast to know what machine sits on your desk. Apart from simply showing you what your system is made up of, Info Bag Pro can test the performance of your system to give you an idea of whether you need an upgrade or not, by comparing your hardware performance with a Medi-Core and a Fast-Core system.

Inside
OS: Win95/98    Download Rating: 3/5 - 309Kb
This russian program gives you full information about Windows, memory usage, system components, fonts, ect.

IntelBurnTest
OS: WinXP/Vista  Download Homepage Screenshot
Rating: 5/5 - 1Mb
Freeware
IntelBurnTest is an extremely stressful program that will put even the most powerful X86/X64 CPU in the world at its knees. It utilizes Intel Linpack technology. Load temp under Linpack will be up to 22°C higher than the competing software Prime95. This program will make usage of Linpack easier and more practical. Benefits of using Linpack: 1. More accurate than Prime95 Small FFTs/Blend. 2. Takes less time to tell if your CPU/RAM is unstable than Prime95 (usually something like 8 minutes Linpack vs 40 hours under Prime95). 3. Use the same stress-testing engine that Intel uses to test their products before they are packed and put on shelves for sale. Keep in mind, stress-testing may damage your PC, use this program at your own risk.

Intel CPUid
OS: Win95/98       Download  Rating: 3/5 - 120K
The Intel CPUID Utility for Windows allows Windows 95 or Windows NT users to identify what type of Intel microprocessor they have contained in their system. It is not intended to identify microprocessors manufactured by companies other than Intel nor is it intended to detect the speed of your Intel microprocessor. This time CPUid is called Intel Processor Frequency ID Utility.

Intel Processor Identification Utility
OS: WinNT/2k/XP  Download  Homepage Rating: 4/5 - 842Kb
Freeware
The Intel Processor Identification Utility was developed by Intel Corporation to identify the processor inside a system, assuring the processor contains intended technologies and is operating at the tested and rated frequency intended by Intel Corporation. The utility is designed to identify the new generation of processors, and processors going forward, starting with Pentium 4 (in contrast to the Intel Processor Frequency ID Utility, which identifies Intel processors manufactured prior to the introduction of the Intel® Pentium 4 processor).

Intel Processor Frequency ID Utility
OS: Win9x/Me/NT/2k/XP  Download  Homepage Rating: 4/5 - 1.9Mb
This program was developed by Intel Corporation to enable consumers with the ability to identify and, in some circumstances, determine if their Intel processor is operating at the correct and rated frequency intended by Intel Corporation.

Intel Media Benchmarks
OS: Win95/98       Download  Rating: 4/5 - 20Mb
The Intel Media Benchmark measures Video, Image Processing, 3D Graphics, and Audio performance on Windows 95/98 computer systems.

Internet Connection Benchmark
OS: Win95/98/NT/2000 Download  Homepage Rating: 4/5 - 984 Kb
Internet Connection Benchmark is an Internet connection speed analyzer. It can measure actual backbone speed and calculate the averages and display them on a user friendly interface.

Iometer
OS: WinNT/2k/XP  Download Homepage Rating: 4/5 - 2Mb
Freeware
Iometer is an I/O subsystem measurement and characterization tool for single and clustered systems. It was developed by the Intel Corporation. Meanwhile Intel has discontinued to work on Iometer and it was given to the Open Source Development Lab (OSDL). Iometer is also available for Linux, Netware, Windows 64 (IA64) and Solaris.

IOzone Filesystem Benchmark
OS: Win9x/Me/NT/2k/XP  Download Homepage Rating: 4/5 - 1Mb
Freeware
IOzone is a filesystem benchmark tool. The benchmark generates and measures a variety of file operations. Iozone has been ported to many machines and runs under many operating systems. The benchmark tests file I/O performance for the following operations: read, write, re-read, re-write, read backwards, read strided, fread, fwrite, random read, pread, mmap, aio_read, aio_write.

IP-Tools
OS: Win9x/Me/NT/2k/XP  Download  Homepage Rating: 5/5 - 1.1Mb
Shareware $35
IP-Tools offers many TCP/IP utilities in one program, including: Local Info, Connection Monitor, NetBIOS Info, Port Scanner, Ping Scanner, Trace, WhoIs, IP-Monitor (show in real time graphics for TCP,UDP,ICMP In,Out,Error packets), Host Monitor (monitoring the up/down status of selected hosts), and more. You can save all information into text (or HTML) files.

JMark 2.0
OS: Win95/98, Mac OS, Solaris, OS/2  Download  Rating: 3/5 - 1Mb
JMark tests the performance of the Java Virtual Machine you might find inside a Web browser or on a Java NC. JMark includes tests for both the processor and graphics subsystems. Also you have the option of sharing your results with others via pages on ZDNet.

KribiBench
OS: Win9x/Me/NT/2k/XP  Download  Homepage Rating: 5/5 - 7.1Mb
Freeware
KribiBench is a CPU benchmark based on a highly optimized 3D rendering engine Kribi Renderer by Adept Development. It is designed to handle up to 10 billion polygons and enable real-time photorealistic rendering. 100% software renderer makes it a pure CPU benchmark. Scores are quite precise - less than 0.5% variation between tests on a given machine. System requirements include a SSE-enabled CPU and 256Mb of RAM! You can also download the KribiBench User Guide (2.5Mb).
KribiBench is published on BenchmarkHQ with Adept Development special authorization!

Lamark
OS: WinNT/2k/XP/Vista  Download Homepage Screenshot
Rating: 4/5 - 257Kb
Freeware
Lamark is an updated remake of the popular 80s and 90s benchmarking tool Landmark Speed Test by Landmark Research International Corporation. It performas a continuous series of speed tests, including CPU, FPU and Memory. Results are normalized acording to an Intel Pentium Dual Core T2330 at 1,60 GHz, with 2 GB of DDR2-667 memory. The Submit button allows to send your benchmark results to the online database and compare them with other users.

Lightsmark 2008
OS: WinXP/Vista, Linux  Download  Homepage Screenshot
Rating: 5/5 - 33Mb
Freeware
Lightsmark is a multiplatform OpenGL 2.0 benchmark based on the next generation 3D engine that measures computer performance under future workloads. It runs a flyby scene featuring realtime global illumination, color bleeding, penumbra shadows and displays the average FPS as an end result. Lightsmark 2008 supports NVIDIA GeForce 5200-9800, 260-280 (including GeForce Go) and AMD/ATI Radeon 9500-9800, Xxxx, X1xxx, HDxxxx (including Mobility Radeon) graphics cards as well as the professional FireGL and Quadro series.

LinX
OS: WinXP/Vista  Download  Homepage Screenshot
Rating: 5/5 - 1Mb
Freeware
LinX is a CPU stability tester based on the Intel Linpack technology. The main point of Linpack is to solve systems of linear equations. It is designed as a benchmark to test the performance of a system in GFlops - billions of floating point operation per second. But it is also the most stressful CPU testing program to date and is a great tool to determine CPU stability. One and the same system of equations is solved repeatedly; if all results match each other - the CPU is stable, otherwise the instability is obvious, since the same sytem cannot produce different solutions. Main features include: support for both Intel and AMD CPUs, both 32 and 64-bit Linpack support, HyperThreading support, Real-time error checking, simple and intuitive interface.

LSoft Testbild
OS: Win9x/Me/NT/2k/XP  Download  Homepage Rating: 4/5 - 163Kb
Freeware
LSoft Testbild is a monitor tester. It contains 6 test that will allow you to adjust your monitor. The program is in german but is easy to use and comprehend.

Mandelmark
OS: Win9x/NT/2k/XP  Download  Homepage Rating: 4/5 - 335Kb
Freeware
Mandelmark benchmarks your CPU using the Mandelbrot algorithm. You can compare your results to a couple of reference systems and send to the author of the program. The interface is in German.

MasmoBench (MaxBench 5)
OS: Win9x/Me/NT/2k/XP  Download Homepage Rating: 4/5 - 744Kb
Freeware
MaxBench is an OpenGL accelerated benchmarking program that will test the speed of your CPU, video and memory subsystems. After the testing you will be able to compare your results to a base-line system. You can also download more base-line results from the developer's website.

MASMO.PrimeBench
OS: Win9x/Me/NT/2k/XP  Download  Homepage Rating: 4/5 - 24Kb
Freeware
This little utility benchmarks the CPU/RAM sybsystem by calculating prime numbers. It can also be used to stress test your system.

MaxPI Multicore PI Calculator
OS: Win2k/XP/Vista  Download  Homepage Screenshot
Rating: 4/5 - 414Kb
Freeware
MaxPI Multicore PI Calculator heavily loads you CPU by calculating Pi up to 1M decimal places. The program supports multicore CPUs (up to 4 cores simultaneously) and allows to set the number of cores to use. The results are displayed for each core individually and for the whole processor. The interface is in German.

MCS CPU Benchmark 2008
OS: Win9x/Me/NT/2k/XP/Vista  Download  Homepage Rating: 5/5 - 2.6Mb
Freeware
MCS CPU Benchmark will benchmark your CPU. It contains 5 tests, including Zlib compression, Calculation test, Particles test, Sprites test and Office test, plus a separate MIPS test. It have a lot of additional stuff like CPU Monitor, CPU Optimizer module and processor features. Besides, it shows full information about the CPU and system resources, including the processes list. Details...

Medieval Bluetooth Network Scanner
OS: Win9x/Me/NT/2k/XP/Vista  Download Homepage Screenshot
Rating: 4/5 - 754Kb
Freeware
This program can analyze and scan your Bluetooth network, giving detailed informations about local (all Bluetooth dongles installed on your system) and remote (phones, PDAs, smartphones, computers, devices, etc) devices found. You can also browse supported services of each device in a clear and straightforward user-interface. You can save a lot of device and service informations to clipboard.

Memparam
OS Win9x/NT/2k/Me/XP  Download  Homepage Rating: 4/5 - 235Kb
Freeware
Full parameter test of x86 CPU's memory subsystem, including L1/L2 cache size/block size/association/write policy, L1/L2/memory bandwidth, BTB depth, RAS depth, TLB size/association and more. Best for architecture understanding purpose.

MemTach
OS: Win95/98/NT/2000  Download  Homepage Rating: 5/5 - 233Kb
Freeware
MemTach is a memory benchmarking tool made by CPUReview.com, designed to help you analyze the characteristics of different memory subsystems.

MemTest
OS: Win9x/NT/2k/Me/XP  Download  Homepage Rating: 4/5 - 21Kb
Freeware
MemTest is a RAM reliability tester. It evaluates the ability of your computer's memory to store and retrieve data. A correctly functioning computer should be able to do both these tasks with 100% accuracy day in and day out. By running MemTest, you can ensure that your computer's RAM is correctly functioning. You can assign a number of megabytes to test.

Memtest86 4.0
OS: DOS, Win9x/NT/2k/XP, Linux  Homepage  Rating: 4/5 -
Download version for DOS (74K), Linux (173K)
Freeware
Memtest86 is thorough, stand alone, OS independent memory test for x86 architecture computers. BIOS based memory tests are only a quick check and often miss many of the failures that are detected by Memtest86. It creates a bootable diskette, so all you need to run the test is to boot from that floppy. The testing will start automatically, and will run indefinitely, until the ESC pressed.

Memtest86+ 4.20
OS: DOS, Windows, Linux  Homepage     Rating: 4/5 -
Download version for DOS (62K), Linux (ISO) (66K), Windows (ISO) (66K)
Freeware
Memtest86+ is a thorough, stand alone, OS independent memory test for x86 architecture computers, based on the well-known original Memtest86. It supports the latest technologies. MemTest86+ creates a bootable diskette or CD.

MetaBench
OS: Win9x/Me/NT/2k/XP  Download  Homepage Rating: 5/5 - 1.6Mb
Freeware
MetaBench is a benchmarking program, which consists of more than 35 different tests designed to benchmark high-end systems. Benchmarks are carefully designed in consideration with new CPUs and system architectures. It consists of two types of benchmarks: Synthetic and practical. Its synthetic test measures different component's performance purely. Practical tests are consisted of different algorithms being used in different software. They are designed to measure performance of the whole system as unit, they include Ogg Vorbis audio encoding/decoding(very similar to MP3), Fast Fourier Transforms(FFT) tests and PPMD compression method.

MetaScream CPU Testing
OS: Win2000/Me/XP  Download  Homepage Rating: 5/5 - 1.3Mb
Freeware
The small utility assisting to measure speed of operations of your processor. For check uses operations from a floating point on the basis of Huffman algorithms.

MHDD 4.6  
OS: DOS, Win9x/Me/NT/2k/XP  Download Homepage Rating: 5/5 - 528Kb
Freeware
MHDD is an utility for fast and informative low-level drive diagnostics. It performs fast (up to 20 Gb in 6 minutes) and accurate diagnostics of all the surface and heads of the HDD irrespective of the data located on it. The program also allows to get rid of the "software" bad sectors with the highest possible speed. MHDD's major features also include: IDE registers monitoring, SMART monitoring, HDD stress-testing, and more!

Mi32
OS: Win9x/Me/NT/2k/XP  Download Rating: 4/5 - 63Kb
Freeware
Mi32 will test the performance of your memory and caches. It tests the read/write/copy speed and such.

miceJUDGE
OS: Win9x/Me/NT/2k/XP Download Homepage Rating: 4/5 - 1.8Mb
Freeware
miceJUDGE is a mouse quality testing program. It supports any USB optical mouse. miceJUDGE reads and analyses mouse movements. The final result is represented as a curve and overall score. miceJUDGE is also available in German and Chinese.

Modem Doctor for Win2000/95/98/NT4 Ver 2.0
OS: Win95/98/NT/2000      Download  Homepage Rating: 5/5 - 984 Kb
Modem Doctor for Win2000/95/98/NT4 Ver 2.0 is a powerful diagnostic tool that can help you troubleshoot and maintain serial ports and modems in the Win95/98/NT/2000 environment.

Monitor Asset Manager 2.6
OS: Win9x/Me/NT/2k/XP  Download  Homepage Rating: 5/5 - 410K
Freeware
Monitor Asset Manager is a Plug and Play monitor information utility that works under all 32-bit versions of Windows. It is fully multi-monitor-capable, and unlike similar reporting utilities queries the monitor directly rather than relying on potentially dubious information stored in the registry. In addition to providing detailed information on monitor color and timing characteristics, this compact utility is the only program of its type to accomplish this under Windows NT 4.0, providing corporate IS managers with a simple tool to track monitor inventory by serial number.

Monitor Calibration Wizard
OS: Win9x/Me/NT/2k/XP  Download  Homepage Rating: 4/5 - 771K
Freeware
Monitor Calibration Wizard is an easy-to-use tool for calibrating the colors displayed by your monitor. Most monitors have flaws, they may be too dark, too bright, or they may have a color tint like green or blue. All these problems can be easily fixed through Monitor Calibration Wizard.

Monitor Expert
OS: WinXP/2k3/Vista  Download  Homepage Screenshot
Rating: 4/5 - 600Kb
Shareware $15
This software utility includes many monitor tests and provides monitor information. It is suitable for both LCD and CRT monitors, and it has an option to automatically display all the test pages at 3 seconds interval.

Monitor Test 5
OS: Win9x/Me/NT/2k/XP  Download  Homepage Rating: 4/5 - 27Kb
Freeware
Monitor Test is a monitor adjustment tool. It will allow you to test convergence, focusing, brightness, contrast, etc. The program is in Russian but easy to figure out.

Monitor Test
OS: Win9x/Me/NT/2000  Download  Homepage Rating: 4/5 - 163Kb
Freeware
This program allows to test your monitor. You'll be able to test color purity, geometry, contrast, brightness, and more. It has russian interface. But you'll have no problems understanding it, because language knowledge is almost unnecessary.

Monitor Tester
OS: Win95/98/Me/NT/2000  Download Homepage Rating: 5/5 - 348Kb
Freeware
This utility will guide you in setting and adjusting the parameters and controls of your monitor. You can test and adjust the picture size and position, color convergence and purity, white balance, brightness and contrast, focus, moire and interference, and high-voltage regulation.

Monitors Matter CheckScreen  
OS: Win9x/Me/NT/2000  Download  Homepage Rating: 5/5 - 836Kb
Freeware
This is one of the best programs intended to test your monitor! It will allow to properly adjust the monitor before testing. Then you will be able to perform the following tests: colour, focus, geometry, power supply, streaking. CheckScreen has a separate tab for LCD testing, which contains the following additional tests: crosstalk, smearing, pixel check, tracking!

MultiCore Benchmark
OS: WinXP/Vista  Download  Homepage Screenshot
Rating: 4/5 - 28Kb
Freeware
MultiCore Benchmark is a software utility to measure CPU and system performance. Multi Core Benchmark works by taking a memory-intensive and compute-intensive task and taking a baseline reading of the time it takes to perform that task as a single-thread. Then the task is broken up into 2 or more threads and repeated. As a result, Multi Core Benchmark is able to determine how much more work your system is capable of doing when a task is executed in a parallel manner. Multi Core Benchmark performs the task for from one to 8 threads, and for differing memory sizes.

Multimedia Content Creation Winstone 2004
OS: Win2k/XP     Homepage    Rating: 5/5
Multimedia Content Creation Winstone is a system-level, application-based benchmark that measures a PC's overall performance when running top, Windows-based, 32-bit, multimedia content creation applications on Windows 2000 (SP2 or higher) or Windows XP. It uses such applications as: Dreamweaver, Sound Forge, Photoshop, Windows Media Encoder, Adobe Premiere, and so on.
You can also download the Multimedia Content Creation Winstone 2004 Version 1.0.1 update file (3.5Mb). Note: you'll need an existing copy of Multimedia Content Creation Winstone 2004 Version 1.0 to use the update file.

MultimediaMark 99
OS: Win95/98       Download Rating: 5/5 - 12.9Mb
MultimediaMark 99 is a benchmark that focuses on testing multimedia performance of modern PC in a "real world" environment.

MyCPU
OS: Win95/98/Me/NT/2000   Download   Rating: 4/5 - 36Kb
Freeware
MyCPU is a small CPU identification utility. It shows vendor, type, model, stepping and speed information. Additionally it scans for features like MMX, 3dnow and SIMD (ISSE). Finally, it is able to read cache information such as the size of the L1-data & -instruction cache and the unified L2 cache.

MyCPU2!
OS: Win9x/Me/NT/2k/XP   Download   Rating: 4/5 - 382Kb
Freeware
MyCPU2 is a Russian MyCPU analogue. It has Russian interface, shows vendor, type, model, stepping and speed information. Additionally it scans for features like MMX, 3dnow and SIMD (ISSE). Finally, it is able to read cache information such as the size of the L1-data & -instruction cache and the unified L2 cache. All information can be saved into a TXT- or HTML-file.

N-Bench 3.1
OS: WinXP Download Homepage Rating: 4/5 - 114Mb
Freeware
N-Bench is a CPU Benchmark program, developed by AMD, that is capable of displaying 3D graphics. It consists of a "Demo mode" that plays back beautiful 3DCG movies and a "Benchmark mode" that measures CPU performance.

Native Specialist
OS: WinNT/2k/2k3/XP  Download  Homepage Screenshot
Rating: 5/5 - 887Kb
Freeware
Native Specialist is a successor to the well-known utility Central Brain Identifier (Black Edition). Based on the source code of the latter, it features a significantly improved functionality and GUI. It is designed to be the first system information utility for the AMD64 platform optimized for multi-core AMD processors! The utility allows to independently control thermal and frequency parameters of each core, display chipset and GPU information, etc.

NEC Monitor Test
OS: Win9x/Me/NT/2k/XP Download Homepage Rating: 4/5 - 152Kb
Freeware
This utility made by NEC Corporation is intended for monitor testing. It includes 14 different tests, which can be performed in different resolutions, etc.

Nero DiscSpeed  
OS: Win9x/Me/NT/2k/XP/VistaDownload Homepage Screenshot
Rating: 5/5 - 1.2Mb
Freeware
DiscSpeed is a program for testing optical drives and media. It shows detailed disc information and performs a number of tests, including: Transfer Rate Test, Random, 1/3 and full seek test, CPU utilization test, Burst rate test, DAE quality, spinup/spindown time, Disc quality tests, ect.

Nero InfoTool
OS: Win9x/Me/NT/2k/XP/Vista/7 Download Homepage Screenshot
Rating: 4/5 - 29Mb
Freeware
The utility shows detailed information about features of installed drives (such as firmware, buffer size, serial number, production date, and current DVD region code), inserted discs, name and version number of the operating system, the ASPI manager, installed burning applications, and hardware configuration of the computer. The information can be printed or saved to a text file.

NetBench
OS: Win9x/Me/NT/2k/XP Homepage Rating: 5/5
Download client files (908Kb)
Вownload controller files (1.7Mb)
Freeware
NetBench is a portable benchmark program that measures how well a file server handles file I/O requests from 32-bit Windows clients, which pelt the server with requests for network file operations. NetBench reports throughput and client response time measurements. To run NetBench, you need a file server, a PC running Windows NT/2000 or Windows XP (called the controller) to start and monitor the tests, and clients that are running Windows 95/98, Windows NT/2000, or Windows XP. You'll need to download both the client and the controller files.

NetInfo  
OS: Win9x/Me/NT/2k/XP/2k3/Vista/7 Download Homepage Rating: 5/5 - 1.9Mb
Shareware $39.95
NetInfo is an award-winning ultimate network toolkit. NetInfo provides all the tools you need to help diagnose network problems and get information about users, hosts and networks on the Internet or on your Intranet. Among its key features: Local Info, Connections, Ping, Trace, Lookup, Finger, Whois, Daytime, Time, Quote, HTML, Scanner, and more! Besides, NetInfo includes the utility called IPMonitor, used to verify the network connectivity of a list of user-defined hosts. Details...

NetScanTools Basic
OS: WinXP/2003/2008/Vista/7 Download Homepage Screenshot
Rating: 5/5 - 1.9Mb
Freeware
NetScanTools is a collection of specialized utilities that will help you diagnose a network. The program includes the following tools: Name Server Lookup, ping, traceroute, port scanner, time sync, ident server, winsock info, and more! You can export your information to other programs very easily using the clipboard, or saving to disk, or sending an e-mail, or simply printing a text report.

Nokia Monitor Test
OS: Win95/98       Download  Rating: 5/5 - 379Kb
One of the best programs, that will guide you in setting the parameters, controls and adjustment of the monitor!

NovaBench 3
OS: Win9x/Me/NT/2k/XP/Vista/7  Download Homepage Screenshot
Rating: 4/5 - 11Mb
Freeware
NovaBench is handy utility that will allow you to easily test a few aspects of your computer's speed, such as CPU speed, RAM speed, Disk speed and Graphics Card speed. After all tests are completed, an overall system score will be given to your computer. The results can be saved or printed.

OCZ Memtest86
OS: Windows  Homepage     Rating: 4/5 -
Download: 1.44 Floppy image (59K), CD-ROM ISO (38K)
Freeware
OCZ Memtest86 has been built onto the core of the Memtest86+ memory test package. OCZ Memtest86 contains enhanced feature sets, a comprehensive support platform fully compatible with both the latest and old-generation chipsets as well as providing many unique options.

OpenGL Extension Viewer
OS: WinXP/Vista Download Homepage Rating: 5/5 - 1.2Mb
Freeware
OpenGL Extension Viewer is a utility that reports information about the OpenGL driver of your 3D accelerator like OpenGL capabilities, OpenGL graphics contexts and display modes. The information can be saved to a report (TXT or XML).
You can also download OpenGL Extension Viewer for MacOS 10.2 or later.

FurMark OpenGL Benchmark
OS: WinXP/Vista Download Homepage Screenshot
Rating: 4/5 - 1.3Mb
Freeware
Fur Rendering Benchmark is a small OpenGL benchmark focused on fur rendering using real time shaders. The benchmark offers several options allowing the user to tweak the rendering: fullscreen / windowed mode, MSAA selection, window size, duration. The benchmark also includes a GPU Burner mode (stability test).

OpenGL Geometry Benchmark
OS: Win9x/Me/NT/2k/XP Download Homepage Rating: 4/5 - 100Kb
Freeware
OpenGL Geometry Benchmark tests the geometry Transform & Lighting power of miscellaneous video cards under OpenGL. The program can test many combinations of geometry formats, and also use the NVidia and ATI extensions that provide access to video or AGP memory. After the tests are done, you'll be asked if you want to send a log file to the website. Finally, the results will be saved in a text file.

OpenGL Soft Shadows Benchmark
OS: WinXP Download Homepage Screenshot
Rating: 4/5 - 4.1Mb
Freeware
This OpenGL benchmark is focused on the pixel processing unit (pixel pipelines). A 3D scene with 5 objects and 3 dynamic lights is rendered. Each object casts soft shadows and the filtering of soft shadows is performed by a 7x7 filter. The benchmark exploits the latest 3D features like the vertex buffer objects (VBO), the framebuffer objects (FBO) and a GL 2.0 codepath. Soft Shadows Benchmark also includes a stability test mode, which is useful to test your graphics card during your overcloking sessions.

OpenGL Stars
OS: Win95/98/Me/NT/2000 Download Homepage Rating: 4/5 - 452Kb
This is a new OpenGL benchmarking utility. It allows to customize screen resolution and bit depth, adjust texture filtering mode, ect. The detailed report of program run and benchmark results can be saved to a file.

OpenGL Surface Deformer Benchmark
OS: WinXP Download Homepage Rating: 4/5 - 2.4Mb
Freeware
Surface Deformer is a small OpenGL benchmark that stresses the vertex processing unit (vertex pipelines). A mesh plane made of 2 millions of triangular polygons and 1 million of vertices is deformed in realtime by a GLSL vertex shader. The benchmark uses a GL 2.0 codepath for the realtime shaders and stores the whole mesh in a VBO in order to limit the CPU-GPU transfert effect. The performance measure lasts 1 minute, the o3Mark score is the number of frames that have been displayed during the benchmark. Surface Deformer also includes a stability test mode, which is useful to test your graphics card during your overcloking sessions.

Opti Drive Control
OS: WinXP/Vista Download Homepage Screenshot
Rating: 5/5 - 347Kb
Shareware $24.95
Opti Drive Control is a test and benchmark utility for optical drives. It can be used to verify the performance, quality and reliability of the burn and read functions of optical drives and discs. Test results can be saved as a HTML report and the graphs can be exported to CSV which allows for detailed analysis with spreadsheets. With the multi-test feature all functions can be run and saved without user intervention.

Particle Fury
OS: Win95/98/Me/NT/2000 Download Homepage Rating: 4/5 - 210Kb
Freeware
Particle Fury is a fresh new benchmark program for Windows systems that tests your system's memory performance using an attractive and real-world relevant OpenGL 3D display. This benchmark features a continuous particle system, complete with physics engine. On systems with a P6-class FPU or higher, it is almost totally limited by memory speed, making Particle Fury an excellent benchmark of memory performance.

OverSoft CPU Informer
OS: Win9x/Me/NT/2k/XP  Download Homepage Rating: 4/5 - 538Kb
Freeware
CPU Informer is a CPU identification utility. It shows common information about your CPU and cache. CPU Informer supports the newest AMD and Intel processors.

PassMark AppTimer
OS: Win2000/XP/2k3/Vista  Download  Homepage Screenshot
Rating: 5/5 - 66Kb
Freeware
AppTimer will run an executable a number of times and time how long it takes for the application to reach a state where user input is being accepted before exiting the application. After each run of the application AppTimer will attempt to close the application in an automated fashion while logging the time measurements to a log file. It's main use is in benchmarking an application's startup time.

PassMark BurnInTest 7.0
OS: WinXP/2003/Vista/2008/7  Download  Homepage Rating: 5/5 - 6.8Mb
Download 64-bit version for Windows VIsta/XP/2003 x64
Shareware $39
BurnInTest is a software tool that allows all the major sub-systems of a computer to be simultaneously stress tested for endurance, reliability and stability. BurnInTest tests the CPU, hard drives, CD ROMs, CD burners, DVDs, sound cards, 2D graphics, 3D graphics, RAM, network connections, printers and video playback. The Pro version can also test tape drives, USB 2.0 and 1.x, serial and parallel ports. This can all be done simultaneously as the application is multithreaded. I like it!

PassMark Fragger
OS: WinXP/2k3/2k8/Vista/7  Download  Homepage Screenshot
Rating: 5/5 - 542Kb
Freeware
PassMark Fragger is a software tool that lets you fragment or defragment existing files in a controlled environment using user-selected settings. This utility is primarily used to benchmark the performance of third party defragmentation tools, or benchmark PC performance degradation due to file fragmentation. Passmark Fragger lets you: Fragment or defragment individual files; Control the number and size of fragments; Control the position of fragments on the disk; Graphically view current fragmentation of a file; View detailed information about individual files; View cluster and cluster allocation information about the current volume, etc.

PassMark KeyboardTest
OS: Win9x/Me/NT/2000/XP  Donwload  Homepage Rating: 5/5 - 676K
Shareware $15
KeyboardTest is a Windows based application that allows users to quickly check that all the keys on their computer keyboard are functioning correctly and look at the internal scan codes being generated by the keyboard. The down and up stroke of each key is registered and highlighted on a graphical image of a keyboard. Each time a key is pressed a variety of state information is updated in the window.

PassMark Modem Test
OS: Win9x/Me/NT/2k/XP/2k3/Vista  Download  Homepage Rating: 5/5 - 1Mb
Shareware $15
ModemTest is an easy to use Windows based application that allows users to test their dial up modem. Two different test methods are provided. The first test method uses two telephone lines and two modems in a master / slave configuration. The second test method requires only a single modem and no telephone line. In both cases ModemTest communicates to the modem using a COM port. A log of the activity is kept in the right hand section of the window. This log can be saved to disk if required.

PassMark MonitorTest
OS: Win98/Me/NT/2k/XP/2k3/Vista  Download  Homepage Rating: 5/5 - 1.3Mb
Shareware $24
MonitorTest is a tool that allows users to investigate the quality and performance of their computer monitor or LCD flat panel screens. It displays a series of specially designed images on the screen at a variety of different resolutions and color depths to test for optimum visual performance. Its main screen also contains some information about your computer's video subsystem.

PassMark Performance Test 8.0
OS: Win2k/XP/2003/Vista/2008/7  Download Homepage Rating: 4/5 - 11Mb
Download 64-bit version for Windows XP/2003/Vista x64
Shareware $24
Performance Test allows you to objectively benchmark a PC using a variety of different speed tests then compare the results to other computers. Twenty-eight standard benchmark tests are available in six test suites plus there are seven advanced testing windows for custom benchmarking.

Passmark RAMMon
OS: Win2k/XP/Vista/7  Download  Homepage Screenshot
Rating: 5/5 - 921Kb
Freeware
RAMMon is an easy to use Windows based application that allows users to quickly retrieve the Serial Presence Detect (SPD) data from their RAM modules. It will allow users to identify a multitude of attributes, of which, includes the manufacturer, the clockspeed and other data of their DDR2, DDR3 memory devices and even some older memory types.

PassMark SoundCheck
OS: Win98/Me/NT/2k/XP/2k3/Vista  Download  Homepage Rating: 4/5 - 1.3Mb
Shareware $24
PassMark SoundCheck is a Windows based application that allows users to test their PC sound card, speakers and microphone. Verify that your sound card can record and playback sounds at various sample rates. Check the capability of your speakers to reproduce the highest and lowest frequencies (and your capability to hear these frequencies). Create perfectly formed test tones and loop them back into your sound card to look for distortion.

Pattern Memory Test (memtest)
OS: DOS         Download     Rating: 4/5 - 95K
Small, but good and useful RAM tester

MVsoft PCinfo
OS: Win9x/Me/NT/2k/XP/Vista/7  Download Homepage Rating: 4/5 - 1.8Mb
Shareware $25
PC Information enables you to gather information on your computer's hardware and software. You can display information about your computer's ID, processor, memory, CD-ROM, disk drives, video and sound cards, network connection, modem, motherboard, monitor, mouse, printer, IP address, and operating system.

OCCT Perestroika
OS: Win9x/Me/NT/2k/XP/Vista  Download Homepage Screenshot
Rating: 5/5 - 5Mb
Freeware
OCCT Perestroika is a multilingual CPU/memory/video stability test. The program offers support for up to 32 CPU cores, customizable tests (Duration, Priority, CPU or RAM, ...), CPU and Motherboard detection, monitoring through 3rd party applications (i.e. MBM5, Speedfan and Everest Ultimate Edition). Perestroika can also produce graphs showing temperature and voltages during the test.

OpenSourceMark
OS: WinNT/2k/XP  Download Homepage Rating: 5/5 - 79Mb
Freeware
OpenSourceMark is an attempt to address the inherent verifiability problem posed by closed source benchmarks. Not only is OpenSourceMark a completely Open Source system level benchmark, but the entire development process is conducted publicly on the COSBI forums. "COSBI" is the acronym for "Comprehensive Open Source Benchmarking Initiative" and OpenSourceMark is the primary container for all developed tests. OpenSourceMark is also completely inclusive since it is intended to be an ever growing warehouse of tools. All meaningful, unique tests will be accepted and incorporated into OpenSourceMark. Additionally, groups of tests can be run in suites that typify different usage profiles like desktop applications, gaming, etc. Moreover, custom suites, where users can pick and choose which test most interests them, are easy to configure and run. OpenSourceMark empowers the user to decide what is important to benchmark rather than relying on the nebulous, blackbox decisions of quasi-secret cabals having shady connections with CPU vendors. Details...

PCMark 7
OS: Win7 Download  Homepage  Screenshot
Rating: 5/5 - 306Mb
Shareware $39.95
PCMark 7 is a benchmark that offers complete PC performance testing for Windows 7. It provides a set of 7 PC tests for measuring different aspects of PC performance with a high degree of accuracy. Overall system performance is measured by the PCMark test. The Lightweight test measures the capabilities of entry level systems and mobility platforms unable to run the full PCMark test. Common use performance is measured by the Entertainment, Creativity and Productivity tests. Component performance is measured by the Computation and Storage hardware tests. The Storage test is ideal for testing solid state drives (SSDs) and external hard drives in addition to the system drive. PCMark 7 is available in 3 editions: the free Basic Edition that offers unlimited runs of the PCMark test suite without registration or expiry, the Advanced Edition which includes all 7 benchmark tests and the Professional Edition which unlocks all features and is licensed for commercial use.

PCMark Vantage
OS: WinVista/7 Download  Homepage  Rating: 5/5 - 664Mb
Shareware $6.95
PCMark Vantage is an analytical tool for measuring the overall performance of PCs in a home environment usage, for today and tomorrow. PCMark05 tests the following: CPU, the memory subsystem, graphics memory, hard disk drive(s), 2D & 3D graphics capabilities. Details...

PC Pitstop
OS: Win9x/Me/NT/2000/XP   Homepage     Rating: 5/5
Freeware
PC Pitstop can help you get your PC in top form -- running fast, stable and secure. PC Pitstop runs diagnostics on your PC to identify things that might help improve performance. The process is fully automated, private and safe. After the diagnostics run, it'll give you tips for improving all kinds of things, comprehensive information about your computer and its performance, security, Internet connection speed, and much more! There's no need to download anything. Results can be e-mailed and/or saved on the server for further reference.

PC Surgeon
OS: WinNT/2k/XP/2003  Download  Homepage Rating: 5/5 - 1.8Mb
Shareware $20
Gather detailed data on every aspect of your system using this application. It provides all the options and data that Microsoft tools leave out. There is an extensive list of additional system, Windows and software options in addition to system, network and graphics tools. This also provides detailed reports in text format that can be exported to HTML or MS Excel. Plus, you can e-mail or print any topic.

PC Wizard 2012
OS: Win9x/Me/NT/2k/XP/Vista/7  Download Homepage Rating: 5/5 - 6.4Mb
Freeware
PC Wizard is a powerful system information utility designed especially for detection of hardware. It's able to identify a large scale of system components and supports the latest technologies and standards. It is also designed to analyze and benchmark your computer system. It can analyze and benchmark CPU, hard disk, CD/DVD-ROM, RAM.

PCI
OS: DOS, Win9x/Me  Download Homepage Rating: 4/5 - 138Kb
Freeware
This utility examines your PCI Bus (including devices on the motherboard, AGP port, CardBus ports and within the PCI chipset itself) and reports in detail what it finds. It identifies over 7400 different vendors and devices! The full Turbo Pascal source code is included.

PCI32
OS: WinNT/2k/XP/2k3/Vista  Download Homepage Rating: 4/5 - 200Kb
Freeware
PCI32 is a port of the PCI program to "true" win32 - that is, functionality under Windows NT 4.0, 2000, XP, Vista and so on. It examines your PCI Bus (including devices on the motherboard, AGP port, CardBus ports and within the PCI chipset itself) and reports in detail what it finds. It identifies over 7400 different vendors and devices! The full Turbo Pascal source code is included.

PCIList
OS: Win95/98/NT         Download     Rating: 5/5 - 159K
This utility allows to quickly test the supported and enabled capabilities of AGP cards (side-band addressing,pipeline, 2x/4x transfers, etc.). It also serves as a general-purpose PCI device lister.

PdnBench
OS: Win2k/XP/2003/Vista  Download Homepage Rating: 4/5 - 475Kb
Freeware
PdnBench is a command-line utility that runs through several benchmarks that exercise various compute-intensive code paths from Paint.NET. Every benchmark is multithreaded, and takes advantage of multiprocessor or multicore systems. PdnBench will run in 32-bit mode on 32-bit systems, or 64-bit on 64-bit systems (must have a 64-bit CPU and a 64-bit OS). Paint .NET is image and photo manipulation software that supports layers, unlimited undo, special effects, and a wide variety of useful and powerful tools.

Performance Tester 2002
OS: Win9x/Me/NT/2k/XP  Download Homepage Rating: 4/5 - 1.9Mb
Shareware $15
This program has been developed for testing the performance of several hardware components in your PC. Performance Tester also includes a CPU- and RAM-Usage Monitor, ability to Export or Import Test-Results. Currently, the program is on the Beta stage, so the list of tests is limited.

Philips Test Pattern Generator
OS: Win9x/Me/NT/2k/XP  Download   Rating: 5/5 - 3Mb
Freeware
The Test Pattern Generator creates several types of test patterns, that can be used to examine or to align several monitor adjustments, like convergence and video controls. Full screen as well as smaller (1/2, 1/4 and 1/9 screen area) test patterns can be generated. Monitor screen aspect ratios of 4:3 and 16:9 can be used.

PhysX FluidMark
OS: WinXP/Vista  Download  Homepage Screenshot
Rating: 4/5 - 5.7Mb
Freeware
PhysX FluidMark is a physics benchmark based on NVIDIA PhysX engine. This benchmark performs a fluid simulation by imitating the renderering of lava. Real physics parameters such as viscosity are used. SPH (Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics) algorithm is enabled to increase the realism of the simulation. The utility offers a number of settings and includes a stability test. PhysX FluidMark can run in hardware mode (it requires Ageia PhysX PPU or a GeForce 8/9/GTX200 graphics card + ForceWare 177.83 or higher) or in pure software mode (all calculations are done on the CPU, requires an OpenGL 2.0 compliant graphics card, PhysX System Software 8.08.01 and the CUDA DLL).

Pixel Persistence Analyzer  
OS: Win9x/Me/NT/2k/XP  Download   Rating: 5/5 - 67Кb
Freeware
Pixel Persistence Analyzer is a truly amazing LCD testing tool, which should make it easier to compare the pixel persistence of TFT monitors. It includes a few tests (flicker test, readability test, etc.), gamma correction feature, scrolling game, attractive interface, and much more!

Prime95
OS: Win9x/Me/NT/2k/XP  Download Homepage Rating: 5/5 - 1Mb
Download 64-bit version for Windows XP/2003 x64
Freeware
This program is used to find Mersenne Prime numbers. You can visit the official site for a description of Mersenne primes. In addition, Prime95 can be used to stress test the CPU, memory, caches, CPU cooling, and case cooling. The torture test runs continuously, comparing your computer's results to results that are known to be correct. Any mismatch and you've got a problem! Moreover, Prime95 contains the benchmark feature, that times the program on several FFT lengths. You can then compare your computer's speed to others. It is also possible to download versions for Linux, FreeBSD, OS/2.
If you use Windows 2000 or XP, you can also download Stress Prime 2004 (340Kb). SP2004 uses a redesigned user interface that calls Version 23 Prime95's torture test code. This should provide the same results as Prime95, displayed in a different manner. SP2004 provides: easily-visible test status, time-related test status, log window text that can be copied.

ProcessorMark
OS: Win9x/Me/NT/2000  Download Homepage Rating: 4/5 - 600Kb
Freeware
ProcessorMark a CPU benchmarking program that test the CPU by generating a number of internal fractals. With a button you can download comparison data from the authors website so you can compare and chart your system against others.

Q3Bench
OS: Win95/98/Me/2000  Download Homepage Rating: 4/5 - 1.7Mb
Freeware
Q3Bench is a program that automatically benchmarks Quake3 Arena by using customized configuration files and scripts generated from the selections you make. The results will be written into a easily readable and formated text file. Q3Bench works with any version of Quake3.

QDI Mark
OS: DOS       Download  Rating: 3/5 - 40K
This program measures the performance of your hard drive.

Quick Bench
OS: WinNT4/2000/XP  Download Homepage Rating: 4/5 - 375Kb
Freeware
Quick Bench is a small utility to check that your disks are configured properly by benching them and getting the average sequential read speed as well as the CPU load. This lets you know that the DMA (Direct Memory Access) is working properly for the disk.

QuickBench 9.4
OS: WinNT/2k/XP  Download Homepage Rating: 4/5 - 743Kb
Freeware
QuickBench allows to quickly benchmark your CPU, RAM, HDD and videocard. The interface is in German.

RAMexam
OS: DOS  Download  Homepage Rating: 4/5 - 42Kb
Shareware $24
RAMexam is a complete memory tester. It tests system RAM and identifies defective memory before it leads to lost work and data.

RAMspeed
OS: DOS, Windows   Homepage Screenshot Rating: 4/5 -
Download version for: DOS (82Kb), Windows (60Kb)
Freeware
This utility measures throughput of cache & memory subsystem. It runs from a command prompt and because of being written entirely in C should be highly portable (so far it was successfully tested under FreeBSD and Linux). It consists of four routines called INTmark, FLOATmark, INTmem and FLOATmem.

RealStorm Benchmark 2006
OS: Win9x/Me/2k/XP  Download  Homepage Rating: 4/5 - 3.7Mb
Freeware
RealStorm Benchmark calculates processor speed and memory performance and does not use the performance of your 3D-Accelerator! It is based upon the Realstorm Engine, a 3D-Engine using Realtime Raytracing. The program includes the Result Browser.

RegBench
OS: Win9x/Me/NT/2k/XP/Vista  Download  Homepage Screenshot
Rating: 3/5 - 58Kb
Freeware
RegBench is a simple console mode utility to benchmark the Windows registry. It emits output in XML that can be displayed in a human-readable format from within a web browser.

REporter
OS: Win95/98    Download  Homepage   Rating: 4/5 - 198Kb
Freeware
This is a handy system info tool which will report on some of your system's components and write results into the file. It has an attractive design and ability to benchmark your CPU.

RightMark 3DSound
OS: Win9x/Me/2k/XP  Download Homepage Rating: 5/5 - 1.9Mb
Freeware
RightMark 3DSound is a sound test, which has the following features: DirectSound-diagnostics: the conclusion is hardware supported functions for the selected DirectSound-device; check of presence of EAX1, EAX2, EAX3 support; subjective test of DirectSound3D positioning, with vertical plane support; EAX2, EAX3 reverb, occlusions and obstructions; CPU utilisation test at various number DirectSound- and DirectSound3D-buffers, and also with EAX2 reverb; special statistical data processing of CPU utilization, with average and dispertion values.

RightMark3D
OS: WinMe/XP  Download  Homepage Rating: 5/5 - 22Mb
Freeware
RightMark3D will allow you to measure the performance of your graphics accelerator and estimate its support for different features. It contains synthetic and gaming tests. Requires Microsoft DirectX 9.

RightMark3D 2
OS: WinVista  Download  Homepage Screenshot
Rating: 5/5 - 4.5Mb
Freeware
This is a version of RightMark3D designed to test the performance of DirectX10-compatible video cards in Windows Vista. It includes a number of synthetic tests, including: Geometry shader test, Pixel shader test, Vertex texture fetch, etc. In order to run, RightMark3D 2 requires MS Visual Studio 2005 runtime, as well as the latest DirectX runtime.

RightMark Audio Analyzer 6.2.5  
OS: WinVista/7  Download  Homepage Rating: 5/5 - 1.8Mb
Freeware
RightMark Audio Analyzer will test your sound card's acoustic properties, like a distortion factor, amplitude-frequency characteristic, noise level, dynamic range, et cetera. In order to work properly, it requires a full-duplex card. Details...

RightMark Audio Analyzer
Acoustics Testing Edition
OS: Win9x/Me/2k/XP  Download Homepage Rating: 5/5 - 378Kb
Freeware
This is an edition of RightMark Audio Analyzer intended for acoustic systems testing. RMAA-AE based on the same RMAA core. There are two kinds of special testing signal in the program: music noise and swept sine. For acoustic systems testing it is advisable to use a card with exellent AFC and a special measurement microphone (for example, BEHRINGER ECM8000).

RightMark Memory Analyzer 3.8  
OS: Win9x/Me/NT/2k/XP  Download  Homepage Rating: 5/5 - 1.2Mb
Freeware
RightMark Memory Analyzer is the universal CPU/Chipset/RAM test suite intended for detailed, stable and accurate measurements of the most important low-level characteristics of the CPU/Chipset/RAM subsystem of your PC. Seven types of tests are implemented in the current release of the suite, including: average and peak memory bandwidth, average and minimal L1/L2 data cache/memory latency, L1/L2 data cache associativity, decode efficiency of various simple x86 (ALU/FPU/MMX) instructions, L1-L2 data cache bus bandwidth, D-TLB size and associativity, L1 instructions cache size and associativity, I-TLB size and associativity. Details...

RightMark RAMTester
OS: Win9x/Me/NT/2k/XP/Win64  Download  Homepage Rating: 4/5 - 383Kb
Freeware
The RAMTester tool checks memory modules reliability under MS Windows (x86 and x64), working with virtual addresses. It writes various bit patterns into memory cells and then reads them and compares with reference. The tool works only with free physical memory, so you can check any amount of memory that doesn't exceed this limit. RAMTester works with SMP and HTT systems as well as various memory types, including SDRAM, DDRAM, RDRAM, etc.

Runtime's System Info
OS: Win95/98    Download  Homepage   Rating: 4/5 - 937Kb
Runtime's System Info retrieves information about your software, hardware, drives and system configuration. It helps you to keep track of installed components, software and hardware, by generating inventory lists.

S&M 1.9.1
OS: Win9x/Me/NT/2k/XP/Vista, DOS  Download  Homepage Rating: 4/5 - 215Kb
Freeware
S&M is a pretty efficient CPU stress-test, which also includes memory tests and monitoring functionality. The interface is available in Russian or English.

ScanCD
OS: Win95/98/NT         Download     Rating: 5/5 - 188K
Use ScanCD to perform media test of your CD-ROM disks. During testing all kinds of errors are being looked for.

ScienceMark
OS: Win9x/Me/2k/XP  Download  Homepage   Rating: 4/5 - 298Kb
Download 64-bit version for Windows XP/2003 x64
Freeware
ScienceMark is a benchmark that is based on mathematical and physical formulas, which help you measure the performance of your computer by execution of a few tests, including the simulation of liquid argon, energy calculation of H2O, and the like. The program can be also used as a stability tester.

SciMark Standard Edition Complex 2006
OS: Win9x/Me/NT/2k/XP  Download  Homepage Rating: 4/5 - 30Kb
Freeware
SciMark measures the performance of your CPU by burning its instructions serially, regardless of the number of processors on the system. It will output the results on screen instantly and save in a file after every run.

Screen Mask
OS: Win9x/Me/2k/XP  Download Homepage Rating: 4/5 - 44Kb
Freeware
ScreenMask is a small utility helping you to check your monitor color settings and help you to set up the logical screen on it by providing 8 color and 2 test patterns.

SCSITool
OS: DOS  Download  Homepage Rating: 4/5 - 96Kb
Freeware
SCSITOOL is a diagnostics and benchmarking tool for SCSI (storage) devices. Currently supported device types are: harddisk, tape, cd-rom, optical and removable. It has a load of tests, can low level format any number of drives simultaneously, can copy one source drive to more than one target drives, and more.

Serial Device Tester
OS: Win9x/Me/NT/2k/XP  Download Homepage Rating: 4/5 - 494Kb
Shareware $15
The Serial Device Test Utility is designed to assist in analyzing the communication between a PC and a device connected over the serial port. Some of the features that are included are a fully configurable COM port interface, the ability to program constant wrappers (header/footer) around the serial port data, the ability to send data using either ASCII text, decimal values for each byt, or hexadecimal values for each byte, inbound data is decoded into both standard ASCII text and hexadecimal byte values, and the ability to log the data to a file in either HTML or plain text format.

Show Me The Colors!
OS: Win9x/Me/2k/XP  Download Homepage Rating: 4/5 - 334Kb
Freeware
Show Me The Colors! is a simple program designed to allow users to easily adjust their monitor's settings. It consists of more than 10 tests, including LCD Pixel Color tests. The program requires Microsoft .NET Framework to run. You can download an older version that will run without .NET.

SIV
OS: WinNT/2k/XP/Vista/7/2008  Download Homepage Screenshot
Download: SIV32L, SIV64I
Rating: 5/5 - 3.4Mb
Freeware
System Information Viewer (SIV) is a general Windows utility for displaying lots of useful Windows, Network and hardware info - CPU info, PCI info, PCMCIA info, USB info SMBus info, SPD info, ACPI methods, Machine info, Hardware Sensors, Networked computers, Operating System Information and more. SIV is designed for Windows 7, Vista, XP, 2008, 2003, 2000 and NT4. Windows 95, 98 and Me are also supported.
SIV32L is a 32-bit SIV ASCII add-on that is needed for the legacy Windows 2000, NT4 and 9X systems. SIV.exe can be used all Windows systems.
SIV64I is an IA-64 SIV Unicode add-on that should be used on Intel Itanium Enterprise Servers. SIV64I.exe is not for AMD64 or Intel64 64-bit x64 systems.

SiSoftware Sandra 2013  
OS: WinXP/Vista/7/8Download  Homepage Rating: 5/5 - 56Mb
Shareware $34.99 (+ free Lite Version)
SiSoftware Sandra (The "System ANalyser, Diagnostic and Reporting Assistant") is an information & diagnostic utility. It should provide most of the information (including undocumented) you need to know about your hardware, software and other devices whether hardware or software. Highly recommended! Details...

SmartFPS
OS: WinXP/Vista  Download  Homepage Screenshot
Rating: 5/5 - 19Mb
Freeware
SmartFPS.com is a free benchmark designed to test the latest videocards and processors using real world games like Crysis, Crysis Warhead, Call Of Duty 2, Battlefield 2, Serious Sam 2, Call Of Juarez (full version), Unreal Tournament 3, Quake 4, Prey and The Chronicles of Riddick: EFBB. Just download demo versions of these games for free and click one general button in SmartFPS.com. Besides, SmartFPS includes a SmartFPS.com CPU module, which creates a multithreaded workload (Serious Sam 2 + WinRAR file compression simultaneously) to thoroughly test modern CPUs. Microsoft .NET Framework is required to run the benchmark.

SMARTUDM
OS: DOS     Download  Homepage Rating: 4/5 - 25Kb
Freeware
This little program will read the S.M.A.R.T. information of your hard drive(s). It supports external UDMA-controllers and will predict possible drive fail.

SMBIOSW
OS: Win9x/Me/NT/2k/XP  Download  Homepage Rating: 4/5 - 276Kb
Freeware
A program to display the DMI (Desktop Management Interface) and SMBIOS (System Management BIOS) information in your computer. It displays a wide variety of information about the current system. SMBIOSW supports the latest version of the SMBIOS Specification.

Speccy
OS: Win2k/XP/Vista/7  Download  Homepage Screenshot
Rating: 4/5 - 3.6Mb
Freeware
Speccy will give you detailed statistics on every piece of hardware in your computer. Including CPU, Motherboard, RAM, Graphics Cards, Hard Disks, Optical Drives, Audio support. Additionally Speccy adds the temperatures of your different components, so you can easily see if there's a problem.

SPECjvm2008
OS: Win2k3/XP/Vista, Linux  Download  Homepage Screenshot
Rating: 4/5 - 63Mb
Freeware
SPECjvm2008 (Java Virtual Machine Benchmark) is a benchmark suite for measuring the performance of a Java Runtime Environment (JRE), containing several real life applications and benchmarks focusing on core java functionality. The suite reflects the performance of the hardware processor and memory subsystem, but has low dependence on file I/O and includes no network I/O across machines. SPECjvm2008 leverages real life applications (like derby, sunflow, and javac), area-focused benchmarks (like xml, serialization, crypto, and scimark) and also measures the performance of the operating system and hardware in the context of executing the JRE. SPECjvm2008 requires a Java Runtime Environment supporting Java SE 5.0 features. It can be run on Windows (Server 2003, XP, Vista), Linux, AIX, HP-UX, Solaris (9 and 10), etc.

SPECviewperf 11
OS: WinXP/Vista/7  Download  Homepage Rating: 4/5 - 930Mb
SPECviewperf 11 for Linux/Unix platforms (1.3Gb)
Freeware
SPECviewperf is a professional OpenGL benchmark program written in C. It measures the 3D rendering performance of systems running under OpenGL. It uses such CAD/CAM/CAE applications as LightWave, Pro/ENGINEER, SolidWorks, Maya, CATIA, etc.
Users with an existing installation of version 7.1 may download a patch (475Kb) to update from 7.1 to 7.1.1.

SpeedTest
OS: Win9x/Me/NT/2k/XP  Download  Homepage Rating: 4/5 - 1.1Mb
Freeware
SpeedTest allows to measure network transfer speeds between your computer and any website or networked computer. The results are represented in a graphic form.

Stability Drone
OS: Win9x/Me/NT/2000/XP   Download   Rating: 4/5 - 19Kb
Freeware
Stability Drone is a complete core system stability tester and benchmark. It allows to test and benchmark you CPU, Video card and RAM! Note: this is the alpha-version with limited functionality!

SPD Tool
OS: DOS    Download Rating: 4/5 - 25Kb
Freeware
SPD Tool will identify DIMM modules installed in your system. It reads the SPD contents and gives you comprehensive information about your RAM. Knows over 300 memory manufacturers.

SoundCheck
OS: Win9x/Me/NT/2k/XP  Download Homepage Rating: 4/5 - 2.2Mb
Freeware
This program provides a suite of helpful test utilities for testing the audio functions on your PC, such as Wave Input/Output, MIDI, CD Audio, etc. In addition to these tests there are configuration and troubleshooting tips to help you when you are having problems with your system.

SSD life
OS: XP/Vista/7  Download Homepage Screenshot
Rating: 4/5 - 2.3Mb
Freeware
SSD Life analyzes how actively you use your solid-state drive and uses a special algorithm to calculate its estimated lifetime. The entire information about your SSD — from general (manufacturer, model) to technical (whether your drive/system supports TRIM) — is displayed in the main window of SSD Life. The utility supports practically all solid-state drives from most SSD manufacturers – such as Kingston, OCZ, Corsair, Western Digital, Crucial, AData, Patriot.

STREAM
OS: Win95/98/NT   Download  Homepage Rating: 3/5 - 49Kb
The STREAM benchmark is a simple synthetic benchmark program that measures sustainable memory bandwidth (in MB/s) and the corresponding computation rate for simple vector kernels. You can also download a version for DOS, Linux, and Power Mac systems!

Super Pi
OS: Win9x/Me/NT/2k/XP/Vista/7    Download Homepage Screenshot
Rating: 4/5 - 945Kb
Freeware
Super Pi is used to carry out the calculation of pi up to a given number of decimal digits to benchmark the CPU. It heavily loads the latter, so the program can be also used as a stress-test.

Super System Info
OS: Win95/98   Download  Homepage Rating: 3/5 - 326Kb
Super System Info is a program which shows you detailed information about your computer.

Super System Information
OS: Win9x/Me/NT/2000  Download  Homepage Rating: 4/5 - 2.5Mb
Freeware
This program will show you a detailed system information. Besides, it is able to automatically or manually free up a set amount of RAM and defragment it. You can also monitor CPU load, and a swap-file, etc. At the moment, Super System Information has only Russian interface.

SynthMark XP
OS: Win9x/Me/NT/2k/XP Download Homepage Rating: 4/5 - 8.2Mb
Freeware
SynthMARK is a synthetic benchmarking tool designed to accuratly test the performace your apps recieve from your system. It includes more than 24 tests, including: CPU / Memory Benchmark, FPU / Integer Benchmark, IdleWild Operating System Benchmark, 3D Accellerated Graphics Benchmark (requires DirectX8 or higher). Results can be saved and compared to other systems.

SysID
OS: Win95/98/NT/2000/Me  Download Homepage Rating: 4/5 - 787Kb
This program shows some common info about your system (CPU, RAM, Speed, and more). Athlon L2 cache speed W/R (On the fly Win9x only).

SysInfo v.0.05
OS: Win95/98/2000  Download  Homepage Rating: 3/5 - 406Kb
This program shows some information about CPU, Memory, OS, network connections, Windows processes, etc.

System Analyser
OS: Win95/98, DOS Download Homepage Rating: 3/5 - 233Kb
Shareware $12
This program gives comprehensive information about your system: Bios, Network, Dos, CPU/FPU, Cache, Memory, Video, AGP, Monitor, Drives, IDE, ATAPI, CD-Rom, DVD, Lpt, Mouse, Keyboard, Modem, Fax, ISDN, Sound, SCSI, DMI, PCI, PCMCIA, Plug and Play, APM, IRQ, DMA, Cmos, Y2K, Windows, ... and lots more!! It also gives benchmarks of the Processor, Memory, Handdisks, CD-Rom and the video adapter.

System Information
OS: Win9x/NT/2k/XP  Download  Homepage Rating: 3/5 - 402Kb
Freeware
System Information is a small utility that provides you with essential information about your computer system and their operating parameters. Shows real-time CPU and RAM usage.

System Information for Windows (SIW)
OS: Win9x/Me/NT/2k/XP/Vista/7  Download Homepage Rating: 4/5 - 1.5Mb
Freeware
SIW is a tool that gathers detailed information about your system properties and settings. It displays information about Motherboard, BIOS, CPU, Devices, Memory, Video, Drivers, Ports, Printers, Operating System, Installed Programs, Processes, Services, Serial Numbers, Users, Open Files, System uptime, Users, Network, Network Shares, and more, as well as real-time monitors for CPU, Memory, Page File usage and network traffic. SIW also displays currently active network connections, Passwords hidden behind asterisks, installed codecs, and more.

System Spec
OS: Win2k/XP  Download Homepage Screenshot
Rating: 4/5 - 735Kb
Freeware
System Spec can let you see, save and print a complete spec of your PC. It can also perform various windows functions. Additional advanced info includes CPU, drives, applications, display, memory, networking, Internet, CD / DVD drives and more.

System Speed Test
OS: DOS, Win95/98  Download  Homepage Rating: 5/5 - 94Kb
This Russian-made sysinfo program has pretty good english interface, that is rather unusual for such DOS programs. In addition to the full system information, it tests CPU, harddrive, ect. Running under Windows may cause unaccurate test results.

System Stability Tester
OS: Win9x/Me/NT/2k/XP/Vista    Download  Homepage Screenshot
Rating: 4/5 - 3.6Mb
Freeware
System Stability Tester tries to test the system's stability by calculating up to 128 millions of Pi. The calculation algorithm is the Quadratic Convergence of Borwein. The testing process includes the creation of two or more threads. After each step of the calculation, the results of all the threads are compared. Any differences between them are reported. There is also the option for single threaded calculation, but in this case there is no stability check. This is useful for benchmarking purposes only. System Stability Tester is also available for Linux x86, Linux amd64, Linux alpha, Tru64 Unix, Solaris 10/x86, HP UX 11.11i PA-RISC.

T4U-Toaster
OS: Win9x/NT/2k/XP  Download  Homepage Rating: 4/5 - 939Kb
Freeware
T4U-Toaster is a CPU stress-test used by the German Tweakers4u site. It can heavily load your CPU for up to 60 minutes. The interface is in German.

TaskInfo
OS: Win9x/NT/2k/XP/Vista/2k8/7  Download  Homepage Screenshot
Rating: 5/5 - 2.8Mb
Shareware $35
TaskInfo is a poweful utility that combines and improves features of Task Manager and System Information tools. It shows real time info about all processes and threads including VxD threads. For each process it shows CPU usage, scheduling, path, open files, memory, DLLs, command line, environment variables, and other. Run and force termination of processes. Reboot, Restart, Shutdown System. It shows also System wide info: CPU, Memory, Cache usage. Data rates for Disk, Network, DialUp IO. And more.

tecChannel Benchmark Suite
OS: WinNT/2k/XP  Download  Homepage Rating: 5/5 - 869Kb
Freeware
tecCHANNEL Benchmark Suite contains three hardware-related test programs. tecBench is the graphical interface integrating the two benchmarks tecHD and tecCD/DVD for evaluating mass storage devices. tecMem, the third program of the trio, is an independent program with its own graphical user interface tailored to its needs. tecMem determines the available bandwidth for data transfers between the CPU and the different levels of the memory hierarchy (caches, main memory).

TempleMark
OS: Win95/98/NT/2000   Download Homepage Rating: 4/5 - 4.9Mb
Freeware
This program, similar to VillageMark, allows to test your video subsystem's performance when working with Microsoft Direct3D. It simulates a simple game environment moving a character through the Egyptian world from the first person perspective. Test results and statistics are written into a CSV file.

Toast
OS: Win9x/Me/NT/2k/XP   Download  Rating: 3/5 - 268Kb
Freeware
Toast is a stress-test utility for your CPU. It has only two options - Normal Priority and High Priority. Also you can trace the running time.

Test Screens
OS: Win95/98         Download  Homepage Rating: 4/5 - 71Kb
Program for testing and comparing computer monitors with 8 different testmodes. Adjusts to any resolution.

TestCPU
OS: Win95/98   Download  Homepage Rating: 5/5 - 604Kb
This is the best program of such kind, I've ever seen! It shows you all information about your CPU and performs several tests and benchmarks. It also has the built-in CPU Museum, where you can learn some information about a number of processors, starting with i386DX!!!

Test In One Minute
OS: Win9x/Me/NT/2k/XP   Download Homepage Rating: 4/5 - 651Kb
Shareware $15.95
Test In One Minute tests overall performance of a computer. It takes only one minute and includes the following tests: integer, float, memory, disk and DirectDraw. You can compare your results with other systems.

TestLAB 2008
OS: Win2k/XP/2003/Vista   Download Homepage Rating: 5/5 - 8.1Mb
Shareware Euro 34.90
TestLAB provides detailed information about configuration, tests the performances of the PC's components (CPU, memory, HDD, 3D, CD-ROM, Network, etc.), helps the user to develop the configuration in terms of his overall needs, controls the correct operation of the hardware and makes a backup of the system in order to make a quick recovery in the event of a crash, bad manipulation or contamination by a virus. The program's interface is in French.

TestVideoRAM
OS: DOS         Download  Homepage Rating: 5/5 - 8Kb
TestVideoRAM is designed to test Video RAM on nVidia cards.

TestMem 2
OS: DOS         Download  Homepage Rating: 5/5 - 12Kb
This little utility will test all available RAM. Has russian interface.

TestMem 4
OS: DOS         Download  Homepage Rating: 5/5 - 26Kb
Freeware
This is the fourth generation of the TestMem project, intended for memory testing.

TestOpenGL
OS: Win95/98         Download    Rating: 2/5 - 220Kb
Rather simple test, that measures the OpenGL performance.

TexBench
OS: Win95/98    Download   Homepage Rating: 4/5 - 576Kb
This OpenGL program creates # textures (1 to 200) in min x min resolution (16x16 to 4096x4096). And then benchmark the download speed and the Fillrate: draws a plane with a 4 vec polygon from back to front (the texture is changed for every plane). The plane size can be chosen with the fill size parameter.

TFTtest 1.52
OS: Win9x/Me/2k/XP  Download Homepage Rating: 4/5 - 305Kb
Freeware
TFTtest is intended for monitor testing. Most of all it is useful for LCD owners. The program contains 9 tests and has Russian interface (however it is easy to use even if you don't know Russian).

TotalTest
OS: Win9x/NT/2000/ME  Download Homepage Rating: 4/5 - 17Kb
Freeware
TotalTest is a program that stresses your overclocked CPU by generating fractal images. Unlike other stressing programs this one doesn't just crunch numbers, it actually shows you the generated fractal. If your computer can survive 12 hours of fractal generating, then you can assume it's stable.

TreeMark
OS: Win95/98         Download    Rating: 3/5 - 953Kb
This is a fun little demo of a procedurally generated tree. It allows you to create a tree of varying size, shape and complexity. Be careful though, if you dial up the complexity (depth) too high on a non T&L accelerated graphics card, things can get REAL slow. This little demo also turned out to be useful as a benchmark. nVidia has also released a few similar demos. All of them can be found at the company's website.

TrueBENCH2000
OS: Win95/98    Download  Homepage  Rating: 5/5 - 650Kb
Freeware
This nice little program will give you general information about your system, benchmark processor, memory, video and HDD. Then you can compare your results with other systems and save them to a file.

ThreadMark
OS: Win95/98       Download  Rating: 4/5 - 480Kb
Adaptec’s ThreadMark benchmark measures multithreaded I/O performance on computers running Microsoft Windows NT or Windows 95/98. You can use ThreadMark to compare the performance of different disk drives and host adapters, in order to find the optimal I/O solution for your Windows desktop environment. Because ThreadMark uses the same Win32 API calls that other applications use, it makes unbiased performance measurements on any SCSI or EIDE disk drive or host adapter.

Tirtanium 1.9
OS: Win95/98   Download  Homepage Rating: 5/5 - 7Mb
Another program, that measures the performance of your graphics system. Actually, this is a continuation of FOG City. Direct3D and OpenGL in one program!

ToolStar*Windows
OS: Win9x/Me/NT/2k/XP  Download Homepage Rating: 5/5 - 1.3Mb
This program is about inventorying, configuring and especially information. ToolStar offers a multitude of information pages in an appealing presentation offers some Windows configuration changes, and can be automized (with a batch mode).

TuffTESTite
OS: Win9x/Me/NT/2k/XP  Download Homepage Rating: 4/5 - 310Kb
Freeware
TuffTEST-Lite is a PC diagnostic software product that can automatically test the major hardware components of any Intel-based, or compatible, desktop PC. It is a "Stand-Alone" diagnostic program that has its own proprietary self-booting operating system. Simply turn the target PC off, insert the TuffTEST-Lite Program Diskette into Drive A, turn the target PC on, and TuffTEST-Lite will boot and take complete control of the target PC.

TVblink Benchmark DVD
OS: Win9x/Me/2k/XP  Homepage Screenshot Rating: 5/5
Download version for PAL (310Mb),  NTSC (280Mb)
Freeware
TVblink Benchmark DVD is designed to test the high definition televisions sets. The Benchmark DVD is divided in five sections: A,B,C,D Tests - To test for panel flaws and general quality of the HDTVs; E Tests - Real video from different common SD sources. The author selected each video so that it would expose different capabilities of the high definition televisions sets. The DVD is designed so you can access any Test/Clip very fast. It's as easy as downloading and burning, then use it to test for yourself! The developer's site also offers a booklet that has all the necessary instructions for the tests as well as scoring info.

UMark 2.0
OS: Win9x/Me/2k/XP  Download Homepage Rating: 5/5 - 385Kb
Download UMark for Linux
Freeware
UMark is a Windows graphical interface that allows to easily configure and run benchmarks on Unreal Tournament 2004. Benchmarking with UMark is very flexible, as it can run totally customizable benchmarks. At the same time, it also offers standard benchmarking which imitates the official UT2004 benchmark batch file tests. UMark also provides an engine for gathering results, which can also be customly set compare results against eachother. Results can be generated as coloured bar graphs, stored in HTML snippets.

USBlyzer
OS: Win2k/XP/2k3/Vista/7  Download  Homepage Screenshot
Rating: 4/5 - 1Mb
Freeware
USBlyzer is an easy to use software USB protocol analyzer for Windows, which provides a complete yet simple to understand view for analyzing USB Host Controllers, USB Hubs and USB Devices activity. With USBlyzer you can: view detailed information about all USB devices and their child components; capture, decode and display important information going through USB device stack; analyze how the user-mode applications and USB device drivers communicate with the USB driver stack.

UT2K3 Benchmark Utility
OS: Win98/Me/2k/XP  Download Homepage Rating: 5/5 - 320Kb
Freeware
An utility developed by [H]ard|OCP, which benchmarks UT2K3 (either full or demo version) with the same visual settings as others. "...All of the utilities needed to benchmark with the UT2K3 were already in the demo, all we did was create some files that will ease the process of benchmarking to make it easier for the reviewer and end user. Most importantly this scripting utility will allow for people with DX8 compliant VidCards to compare results on a fair basis..."

UTMark2003
OS: Win9x/Me/NT/2k/XP  Download Homepage Rating: 4/5 - 1Mb
Freeware
UTMark2003 uses the Unreal Tournament 2003 demo to produce a 3D performance index, and requires UT2003 installed to work.

VAR Memory Benchmark
OS: Win9x/Me/NT/2k/XP  Download Homepage Rating: 4/5 - 22Kb
Freeware
VARMemBench is a simple memory benchmark program designed to benchmark AGP and video memory write speeds. This program requires the NVIDIA GL_NV_vertex_array_range extension, which it uses to allocate AGP and video memory. It will only work with video cards that include this extension. Right now, that means it will only work with GeForce series video cards.

Victoria 3.52
OS: DOS, Win9x/Me/NT/2k/XP  Download Homepage Rating: 5/5 - 32Kb
Freeware
Victoria is a powerful HDD information and diagnostic utility. It supports IDE and SATA drives. Victoria has a lot of useful features, including: full HDD information, disk image creation, 9 disk tests, surface scan, low-level format, Automatic Acoustic Management (AAM), S.M.A.R.T. information, ability to change disk size, and much more!

Victoria 4.46 for Windows
OS: Win2k/XP  Download Homepage Rating: 5/5 - 600Kb
Freeware
This is a version of Victoria for Windows. Being a powerful HDD information and diagnostic utility, it has the same functionality as its counterpart for DOS. But it also have some benefits, like: low CPU load, more convenient user interface, multitasking and multithreading.

Video2000
OS: Win95/98/NT/2000  Download Homepage Rating: 5/5 - 21Mb
Video2000 enables users to evaluate the quality, feature set and performance of the video-playback capabilities of their personal computer.

Video Card Stability Test
OS: Win9x/Me/NT/2k/XP  Download Homepage Rating: 4/5 - 675Kb
Freeware
Video Card Stability Test heavily loads your GPU, making it possible to recognize any stability problems. The program also includes a simple 3D benchmark and a 3D screensaver. Video Card Stability Test supports Pixel and Vertex Shaders.

Video Memory Stress Test
OS: Win9x/Me/NT/2k/XP  Download Homepage Screenshot
Rating: 4/5 - 556Kb
Freeware
This utility allows to thoroughly test your video RAM for errors and faults. Video Memory Stress Test includes more than 40 tests, doesn't change your current video mode, has a lot of test options and a logging feature. It also includes a small tool to create a bootable disk in order to test all the available RAM OS-independently.

VillageMark
OS: Win95/98/NT/2000  Download Homepage Rating: 4/5 - 4.4Mb
Freeware
This program allows to test your video subsystem's performance when working with Microsoft Direct3D. It simulates a very simple game environment type, which is becoming more common in real games, moving a character about a real world environment from the first person perspective. The demo can run in 2 Benchmark modes: for 1800 frames or 2 minutes. VillageMark supports T&L and DXTC.

VSO Inspector
OS: Win9x/Me/NT/2k/XP  Download Homepage Rating: 4/5 - 1.2Mb
Freeware
VSO Inspector is a free utility to report various information about your hardware configuration. Using this freeware, you can check the listed CD and DVD readers and writers connected to your computer, check the firmware used. The details about the media used and the speed supported by a given writer with this media. Also you can scan a burnt media for read errors and be confident about the readibility of your fresh backup.

XL-R8R
OS: Win95/98/NT/2000  Download Homepage Rating: 4/5 - 15Mb
XL-R8R brings you the first intelligent PC hardware upgrade recommendation service. In addition to the spectacular sound and light show that you are treated to while running this software, using XL-R8R makes it possible for you to get personalized recommendations regarding how to improve your PC's performance. XL-R8R has a built-in computer system profiler, which inspects your PC's hardware configuration and connects you to its database for detailed performance analysis and upgrade recommendations. The recommendations that you are provided with are specific to your system and your requirements.

WCPUID 3.3
OS: Win9x/Me/NT/2K/XP/2k3  Download Homepage Rating: 5/5 - 262Kb
This is a nice little program, that gives you almost all information about CPU, cache, AGP ect., that you can imagine!

WebServer Stress Tool 7.3
OS: WinWinXP/2k3/Vista/2k8/7  Download Homepage Rating: 4/5 - 9Mb
Shareware $199.95
WebServer Stress Tool runs benchmark load and stress tests on your Web server. It simulates any number of simultaneous users accessing a Web server, then shows you a table and a graph which displays the average request time and the transfer rate. It can also log the results to disk. WebServer Stress Tool can test any URL you give it, it supports proxy servers and password-protected pages.

WhatCpuIs
OS: Win95/98/NT      Download  Rating: 5/5 - 496K
WhatCpuIs is an utility to display the type of microprocessor you own in your Pc. You have no more to open your PC! Simply use WhatCpuIs. It support the latest Cpu as the AMD ATHLON, Pentium!!! etc .. It's the most beautiful program I've ever seen!!!

WinBootInfo
OS: WinXP/Vista/2008  Download  Homepage Screenshot
Rating: 5/5 - 2.6Mb
Download 64-bit version for Windows Vista/XP/2008 x64
Shareware $14.95
WinBootInfo is the advanced Windows Boot Analyzer that logs drivers and applications loaded during system boot, measures Windows boot times, records CPU and I/O activity during the boot, and much more! You want to know what is actually happening during the Windows Boot? You noticed that your computer takes ages to become operable after power-on, but you didn't know how to see what actually gets to be loaded in your computer's memory? You need a reliable tool for monitoring Windows boot performance over time? You want to optimize your computer's performance and need detailed information about loaded system components? Then WinBootInfo is the perfect solution for you!

Windows Memory Diagnostic
OS: Win9x/Me/NT/2k/XP  Download  Homepage Rating: 5/5 - 639Kb
Freeware
Microsoft Windows Memory Diagnostic tests the Random Access Memory (RAM) on your computer for errors. The diagnostic includes a comprehensive set of memory tests. If you are experiencing problems while running Windows, you can use the diagnostic to determine whether the problems are caused by failing hardware, such as RAM or the memory system of your motherboard. Windows Memory Diagnostic is designed to be easy and fast. On most configurations, you can download the diagnostic, read the documentation, run the test and complete the first test pass in less than 30 minutes.

Windows PC Benchmarker
OS: Win9x/Me/NT/2K/XP  Download Homepage Rating: 4/5 - 333Kb
Shareware $5
Windows PC Benchmarker enables you to benchmark and evaluate the performance of various selected aspects of your computer; view the results of this benchmarking in a graph; save the results and compare them against other selected benchmark results.

Windows XP CD Recorder Properties
OS: WinXP/Vista  Download Homepage Rating: 4/5 - 260Kb
Freeware
Windows XP CD Recorder Properties is an utility that allows you to view details about your CD-Recorder and the media that is inserted into the drive. This utility will show you which of your CD/DVD devices Windows XP has installed CD Recording support for.

WinProcInfo
OS: Win9x/Me/NT/2K/XP/2k3  Download Homepage Rating: 4/5 - 13Kb
Freeware
WinProcInfo is a small utility developed to display indepth information about your processor. It supports most AMD and Intel processors. Other manufacturers are unofficially supported at this time.

WinTune 98
OS: Win95/98/NT      Download  Rating: 4/5 - 1.7Mb
WinTune 98 is a low-level benchmark test suite that tests the performance of the major systems (CPU, memory, graphics, including D3D and OpenGL, ect.) of a PC running Windows 95, Windows 98, or Windows NT. Supports MMX, 3Dnow!, SSE.

WizMark
OS: Win95/98/NT         Download     Rating: 4/5 - 1.9Mb
WizMark is a 3D performance benchmark created by 3dfx that measures the performance of Microsoft's Direct3D(tm) and 3D hardware accelerators.

wPrime
OS: Win9x/Me/NT/2K/XP/Vista  Download Homepage Screenshot
Rating: 5/5 - 571Kb
Freeware
wPrime is a benchmarking application designed to use a highly multithreaded approach to calculating the square-roots of large amounts of numbers (up to 32 billion at this stage!). The program has two modes: 32M (speed test) and 1024M (stability test); allows to set the amount of threads you wish to use; can save, load and submit your results.

X-ATA
OS: DOS, Win9x/Me/NT/2k/XP  Download   Rating: 4/5 - 87Kb
Freeware
X-ATA is an utility, which gives you the possibility to retrieve and display large amount of information, which is managed and internally stored by ATA/ATAPI devices such as HDDs, CD-ROMs, Tape-Units, etc. To run the program under Windows you will need an ASPI driver.

X-VESA
OS: DOS, Win9x/Me/NT/2k/XP  Download   Rating: 4/5 - 15Kb
Freeware
X-VESA is an utility program, which gives the user the faculty to diagnose and inspect a VESA display adapter. X-VESA has the following specific characteristics: ability to discover defective VRAM using more aggressive algorithm, detect VESA video mode infos according to the VESA version, ability to measure the VRAM access speed using 8/16/32/64 and 80 bit modes, ability to detect the screen refresh of a generic VESA video mode, etc.

xHDDSpeed
OS: DOS  Download   Rating: 4/5 - 23Kb
Freeware
xHDDSpeed tests the performance of a hard drive. It performs such tests as average seek time, access time, linear speed, etc. The program also gives some information about the drive.

Dacris XMark 7
OS: Win9x/Me/NT/2K/XP  Download Homepage Rating: 4/5 - 4.2Mb - Shareware $29
Formerly known as Dacris Benchmarks .NET, XMark.NET is a new all-in-one system diagnosis utility allowing the user to quickly evaluate their personal computer using a series of tests as well as system information. Using an online result database, users will be able to compare their computers to the computers of others. Dacris PC Advisor, an integrated web service, will use the online database to give users advice on a new computer, as well as evaluate their own computer to find out if it requires an upgrade.

Winbench 99
OS: Win9x/Me/NT/2k/XP    Homepage     Rating: 5/5
Download Winbench 99 2.0 without the test files for the Graphics WinMark or video tests - 9.5 Mb
Download Winbench 99 2.0 without the test files for the video tests - 121 Mb
Shareware
WinBench 99 is a subsystem-level benchmark that measures the performance of a PC's graphics, disk, processor, and video subsystems in a Windows environment. Winbench 99 1.0 included CPUMark 99, which now can be downloaded separately!

ZD 3D Winbench 2000
OS: Win95/98   Homepage   Rating: 5/5
3D WinBench 2000 measures the performance of a PC's 3D subsystem, which includes the Direct3D software, the monitor, the graphics adapter, the graphics driver, and the bus used to carry information from the graphics adapter to and from the processor subsystem. You can use 3D WinBench 2000 to test hardware graphics adapters, drivers, and the value of such enhancing technologies as MMX. Version 2000 knows DirectX 7, contains a new processor test, ect.

ZD BWS BatteryMark 2004
OS: Win2k/XP  Order  Homepage Rating: 5/5
Business Winstone 2004 BatteryMark (BWS BatteryMark) measures battery life on notebook computers running Windows 2000 or Windows XP. This reinvention of BatteryMark is the most substantial change to the benchmark in several years, incorporating additions that make the test even more realistic than before. It measures a notebook computer's battery life and workload potential by exercising three different 32-bit software workload engines--one each for processor, disk, and graphics tasks. BatteryMark mixes these workloads together and adds periodic think times, or breaks, that reflect the way users pause while working.
You can also download the Business Winstone 2004 BatteryMark Version 1.0.1 update file (3.8Mb). Note: you'll need an existing copy of Business Winstone 2004 BatteryMark Version 1.0 to use the update file.

ZD Audio Winbench 99
OS: Win95/98       Download  Rating: 5/5 - 3.89 Mb
Audio WinBench 99 measures the performance of a PC's audio subsystem, which includes the sound card and its driver, the processor, the DirectSound and DirectSound 3D software, and the speakers.

ZD SpeedRate
OS: Win95/98       Download  Rating: 5/5 - 2.9 Mb
SpeedRate is a benchmark program that allows you to see how your processor and hard-drive perform compared to the average "baseline" machine. When you're done, you can take a look at the other ZD SpeedRate scores from typical machines to see how your computer stacks up.

x264 HD Benchmark
OS: Win2K/XP/Vista/7  Download Homepage Screenshot
Rating: 4/5 - 103Mb
Freeware
This benchmark is the "High Definition version" of the x264 Benchmark which has become a standard CPU benchmark for TechARP.com as well as many other hardware enthusiasts. It is a reproducible measure of how fast your machine can encode a short, HD-quality 720p24 video clip into a high quality x264 video file. It's nice because everyone running it will use the same video clip and software. The video encoder (x264.exe) reports a fairly accurate internal benchmark (in frames per second) for each pass of the video encode and it also uses multi-core processors very efficiently. Please, note: the benchmark requires AviSynth 2.5.8 to run.

XSMark
OS: Win9x/Me/NT/2k/XP  Download Homepage Rating: 4/5 - 19.5Mb
Soundtrack: high quality(18.3Mb), low quality(10.6Mb)
Freeware
XSmark is a small benchmark that will test your video card's capabilities. The benchmark features some amazing graphics and is composed of 10 scenes at the end of which you will be provided with some statistics and one single XSMARK.

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