SiSoftware Sandra Lite 15.6
Free
Sandra Software Lite 2009 Service Pack 1 is the latest free version of this famous information and benchmarking application for Windows.
Sandra comes from System Analyzer, Diagnostic and Reporting Assistant and is a practical program to collect information to test the performance of some hardware components such as processor, memory, hard disk, etc ... and test temperature by putting the processor to 100% in loop mode.
SiSoft Sandra is capable of displaying a variety of information on major hardware devices, such as:
The CPU and the BIOS.
The administration of advanced energy.
The AGP and PCI buses.
It is also capable of displaying information on other components, such as: video, memory, drives, ports, keyboard, mouse, sound card, printer, MCI devices, processes, modules OLE, a CMOS dumps, and so on.
The tests allow you to check the performance of things like the file system, transfer speed of the network, removable drives, multimedia processing and much more.
As expected from a free version, this version is limited for personal use, which mean that can´t be used for commercial reports and doesn´t have any kind of tech support.
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Review summary
Pros
- Free
- Functional for most common tasks
Cons
- No tech support
- Limited features
- Despie the fact that it isn´t targeted at home users, its reporting and graphs explanation need to be improved
