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October 18, 2009 CPU-Z - the comprehensive reader of your processorWould you like to fully understand the details of your CPU? Freelot here want to recommend you to use CPU-Z. It provides you comprehensive information of your core. CPU-Z is a famous professional CPU detection tools, which can be said one of the best choices. It can detect CPU frequency, model and memory etc. The usage of CPU-Z is unusually simple, run the downloaded main program file "cpuz.exe" directly. Here we introduce how CPU-Z interpret your core. Software Name: CPU-Z First of all, let's get to know our CPU Information (Figure 1): Figure 1: CPU-Z CPU information In the CPU tab we can see the detailed CPU Parameters, which contains four kinds of information: processor, clocks frequency, cache, core numbers (Figure 1). 1, Check if it is Overclocking: Here the processor displays the actual frequency of the CPU. When we want to know if the CPU is overclocking or not, we can multiply the multiplier and bus speeds under the category "clocks frequency", and then compare the frequency data with the actual frequency. So you can get to know if the current state of CPU is in overclock. 2, Check if it is multi-core: nowadays it is popular with multi-core CPU. How many cores do we have in CPU? It is very simple, direct view at the bottom of the CPU tag, in "Cores" stands the number(1 is a single-core, 2 is a dual-core, 4 is a 4-core). Number of threads represents the Hyper-Threading Technology. 3, Check specific cache information (Figure 2): If you want to know more detailed CPU caches data, you can click on the "caches" tag.
Figure 2: CPU-Z caches information
Secondly, check memory and motherboard information In addition to detect and identify processor information, we can also use CPU-Z to check motherboard and memory information (Figure 3,4):
Figure 3: CPU-Z Mainboard related information Motherboard: in many cases you will need to know the manufacturer and model of your motherboard, especially if you plan to upgrade your computer, or perform a BIOS upgrade or download your motherboard manual or drivers. Finding out this information is not so easy, because many manufacturers simply don’t print on the motherboard their name or the model name. And, you may want to check if the motherboard installed in your PC is really the model you ordered. Usually the warranty is void if you open your computer. So this free software is really useful when you want to the information. CPU-Z can help us to quickly get the motherboard information, click on "Mainboard" tab (Figure 3) you can see all the specific information there.
Figure 4: CPU-Z Memory related information
RAM: the memory information which CPU-Z provides us contains two major parts: 1, memory tag (Figure 4): here you can check the current system, the general profile of memory, such as type, size, channel number (dual-channel, single channel), the memory clocks and more. 2, SPD tab (Figure 5): If you want to know the detailed information of the memory of each slot, you can get them from the SPD tag. In the "memory slot selection" option, you can see the specific information corresponding to the memory slot: including memory type, capacity, bandwidth, manufacturer, frequency, latency, voltage, etc.
Figure 5: CPU-Z Specifying the memory slot information Thirdly, starting from version 1.52, CPU-Z officially increases the detection and identification of graphics cards. Click on "Graphics" We can see the corresponding parameter (Figure 6). For graphics cards, CPU-Z displays the corresponding parameters according to its performance level, such as 2D, 3D etc. The main displayed information includes GPU, the clock and memory.
Figure 6: CPU-Z graphics Information Detection CPU-Z reads a lot of hidden information from a small processor, which helps us to get information about the CPU, motherboard, memory, graphics and other data. Main menu |
