Most people mainly think about system information tools when their Windows computer gets infected, but they are more than just that. They can help in a variety of ways, but not many seem to know this.

Windows: When it comes to diagnosing hardware problems, there's not such thing as too much information. HWiNFO gets credit for trying to push that limit, though. The app analyzes your system and ...

HWiNFO is a hardware information and monitoring tool that provides detailed information about your computer’s hardware components. The driver is neither malware nor virus; instead, it helps in ...

The updated HWINFO v7.64 includes support for Storm Peak CPUs from AMD, which will be known as the Ryzen Threadripper PRO 7000WX series, led by the Ryzen Threadripper PRO 7995WX processor packing a ...

AMD's new Ryzen 7000 series "Zen 4" processors have only just hit the market, but now HWiNFO is wanting to get ahead of the rest with support for next-gen Zen 5 processors. HWiNFO now has "early ...

Motherboard manufacturers will always tweak anything processor related to become a bit faster compared to the competition, and well, just as a feature to offer the best performing motherboard. And as ...

HWiNFO is one of the best free hardware monitoring tools. The latest version of the software has fixed legacy CPU usage reading on Windows 11, a kernel-mode hardware stack driver bug, and more. HWiNFO ...

Popular hardware monitoring and detection application HWinFO's latest release notes include a handful of very curious entries. As you'll have already guessed from the headline, they're the names of ...

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Beyond confirming authenticity, these apps will help verify if your new hardware is operating at optimum speed. Congratulations, you’ve saved hard and received your brand-new PC or the hardware ...

One feature that's important to be able to locate is the specs of your Windows 11 PC, as being able to see what components you have can help to figure out if you need to upgrade a particular component ...