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Find out information about your processor with CPU ID

By | September 24, 2009 | Uncategorized | No comments

I’ve found a great little freeware utility that gives you valuable information about your processor, and other hardware devices on your PC – CPU ID

http://www.cpuid.com/cpuz.php

From their site, heres what information is retrieved:

CPU

  • Name and number.
  • Core stepping and process.
  • Package.
  • Core voltage.
  • Internal and external clocks, clock multiplier.
  • Supported instructions sets.
  • Cache information.

Mainboard

  • Vendor, model and revision.
  • BIOS model and date.
  • Chipset (northbridge and southbridge) and sensor.
  • Graphic interface.

Memory

  • Frequency and timings.
  • Module(s) specification using SPD (Serial Presence Detect) : vendor, serial number, timings table.

System

  • Windows and DirectX version.

 

I ran this on my mums’ pc, in order to find out what processor it had, and here’s the results:

cpu-z screenshot 

 cpu-z2cpu-z3 cpu-z4cpu-z5  cpu-z6cpu-z7

How to use MagicISO

By | September 17, 2009 | Uncategorized | 1 Comment

MagicISO is a brilliant piece of freeware that I use.

It enables you to mount an ISO file, as an actual drive.
For example, MSDN provides subscribers with ISO images of their DVD’s – We can then mount these files, and they will appear to the computer, as an actual drive, and so, can install the software.

Simply download MagicISO from here – http://www.magiciso.com/tutorials/miso-magicdisc-overview.htm

Install it, and it will provide you with a system tray icon.

Right click it, and select Virtual CD/DVD-ROM – You will notice that in my case (below) F: has no media.

Mount Virtual Drive

Select Mount, and then select the ISO file you wish to use.

There are many other options – you can configure many virtual drives etc…

In this freeware version, you can’t edit the contents of the ISO files, you’ll need the paid for version of the software to do that.