HardInfo displays information about your hardware and operating system.
HardInfo is a small utility that displays information about your hardware and operating system. It acts both as a system profiler and benchmark.
Capabilities: HardInfo currently detects most software and hardware detected by the OS. Features: The remote sync was disabled due to server loss.
It can examine PCI, ISA PnP, USB, IDE, SCSI, serial and parallel port devices.
Key Features
- Comprehensive reports on hardware.
- Generate HTML reports on your system’s hardware.
- Benchmark and compare your system:
- CPU Blowfish.
- CPU CryptoHash.
- CPU Fibonacci.
- CPU N-Queens.
- FPU FFT.
- FPU Raytracing.
- Submit benchmark scores to help other users.
Website: github.com/lpereira/hardinfog
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Developer: Leandro A. F. Pereira and contributors
License: GNU General Public License v2.0

HardInfo is written in C. Learn C with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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