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Portable PC Wizard Analyzes, Benchmarks, Slices, & Dices
by Lee Mathews Jul 16th 2008 at 8:00AM
CPUID's PC Wizard is a portable system analysis and benchmarking with tricks to spare. Apart from offering an incredible amount of information about the hardware and software in your computer (file associations, driver versions, hardware revisions, system uptime, etc.), it'll benchmark it, monitor sensors and voltages, and even stress-test it.
Benchmarking functions are surprisingly rich, testing everything from cpu, ram, drives, and even DirectX and MP3 performance. You won't get a huge assortment of systems to compare with, but you will get a good idea of how your rigs stacks up to some common configs.
We've had trouble with some portable system information apps missing the mark - especially on laptops - but PC Wizard worked like a charm, providing a ton of information about our test rig's proprietary mainboard. For an encore, PC Wizard can even figure out and display many MS application passwords and list them on the configuration screen. It's one more unexpected bonus feature that makes this program worth keeping on your flash drive.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
a said 9:59AM on 7-16-2008
does it support vista x64?
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Andrew said 3:02PM on 7-16-2008
The installable version does, so I would say yes (can't test it right now though).
xephyr69 said 12:41PM on 7-16-2008
More posts about portable freeware would be very nice. I appreciate all that you guys do here and I have a keen interest in portable software. I have quite a collection myself and would be grateful if your insight could assist in expanding my collection.
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Lee Mathews said 12:42PM on 7-16-2008
Well, I'm still new here...but I love portable apps, too...so expect to see me posting about them a lot!
xephyr69 said 12:51PM on 7-16-2008
If you are interested in any of my portable apps that are in my collection, let me know.
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