![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() While it was never the prettiest of apps, it was always preferable over that of Windows’ own system profile tool!Īs I got into Linux I largely stopped obsessing over clock speeds, cache sizes and I/O rates. This handy utility armed me with all the info I needed to track down a missing motherboard driver or ensure I was ordering the correct RAM for an upgrade.ĬPU-Z served up an insane amount of information - including on topics that the then-fledgling Wikipedia had yet to learn. Indulging my fixation for technical trivia during my Windows days was easy thanks to a freeware application called CPU-Z. My name is Joey-Elijah Sneddon and I used to be a hardware stat hound.įrom being able to recite the relative speed of my processor’s front-side bus and the prefetch buffer depth of the RAM on my GPU, to knowing more useful information, like the BIOS version of my motherboard: if I could learn it, I would. ![]()
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