Re: Best freeware utilities?

de Franklin 06/06/2006 01:56

On 05 Jun 2006, Bob Adkins<bobad@charter.net> wrote:

>>Hi Does anybody know of a list of (preferably BEST) freeware
>>UTILITIES? I've seen a number of best freeware lists recently that
>>indeed mention utilities but I'm looking for something more
>>complete .
>>
>>The type of software I'm seeking will do things like:
>>
>>1) Check CPU activity
>>2) Measure HD RW speeds
>>3) RAM RW and latency

>
> HDTune, hands-down the best.
>
> CPU-Z will let you peek at the CPU, RAM, and MB details.
> --

Here are some which I have tried.

MEMTEST 86 and also MEMTEST 86+ to soak test the RAM with about a
dozen different tests.

Speedfan and also Fanspeed for temps and, of course, fan speeds and
ISTR cpu speed too.
http://www.almico.com/speedfan.php
http://uk.geocities.com/twistedfuryuk/fanspeed/

HDtach for HD performance. Also Atto's Bench32 which looks nice but
my v2.02 is getting old.
http://www.simplisoftware.com/Public/index.php?request=HdTach
http://kb.ciprico.com/lore/article.php?id=268

Gebhard's very nice Doc's AAM Tool which I prefer to the Hitachi AAM
tool. (Less good is WinAAM.)
see http://www.gebhardsoftware.de/pghgbstl.htm

2Morrow's CPU Stats.
http://www.2morrow.com/cpustats/

From PESoft is neat Tiny Res Meter.
http://perso.accelance.net/~pesoft/trm/us_trm.html