Its features are very similar to those of hwmonitor, but with an interface that is much more interactive, complete and intuitive in addition to that, speccy provides us with more detailed information in many fields and we can see some of the graphics in real-time Speccy is a lightweight utility that will tell you just about everything you'd want to know about your computer, without having to open the case and poke around to see what's there.įor example, I started Speccy and the first screen showed a summary of my computer as shown below.If you look at the definition that gives you the team of piriform, speccy is a program designed mainly to give us information about our team

And I had no idea whether my main desktop computer had a SATA III port, and if it did, were there any empty slots.Īnd that's where the free Speccy program comes in.

To get the most speed out of an SSD, it is recommended to connect via a SATA III port.

The one I was looking at, a Samsung 860 EVO 500gb is priced under ninety dollars, is at least 4 times faster than HDD and comes with software that makes it easy to clone an existing HDD to SSD.īasically, what this means to me is for under ninety dollars I can replace my existing mechanical C: drive (where Windows is stored) with a Solid State Drive that is much faster, much more reliable (no moving parts to fail), runs cooler and uses less power.īut there is a catch. With prices of SSD drives falling so dramatically, I was thinking about getting one to use as my OS drive on my computer. If you're wondering what the true specs of your computer are, or if you have the right components needed to add an SSD or other devices, or what your graphics card, RAM or CPU is, use this free program to find out.