Far from being the average system hardware information tool, HARDiNFO Pro is a full-featured benchmark tool that provides you with comprehensive information about nearly any detail worth knowing about the hardware and software installed on your computer. It only takes a few seconds for HARDiNFO Pro to provide you with exhaustive data about your system, devices, peripherals, laptop-specific info, system monitor, and network, as well as to benchmark them all against the app’s database, either offline or online.
The program’s interface has been fully revamped for version 8, and it offers an attractive dark-colored theme with large orange and yellow letters that provide a great color contrast. However, the information itself – useful and informative as it is – is not that easy to read, as it appears somehow scattered around the interface in a bit disorganized way, with icon-like images interspersed among the plethora of technical data for no obvious reason.
The System section alone offers you more detailed and useful information about your computer, operating system, CPU, motherboard, RAM memory, and your system’s controllers than any other similar tool, though sometimes with an uneven level of detail. Unlike those other apps, you will also find specific technical data about your display or monitor, your disk drives, optical disc drives, network adapters, and audio adapters inside the Devices section. When it comes to the software tools installed on your computer, HARDiNFO Pro will also list for you not only all your apps, but also the Windows services, all running processes, and even the drivers that control the peripherals on your PC. As for the Network section, you will find exhaustive information about all the existing user accounts and your own network configuration.
All of these are always of great help to check the health of your computer and to make informed decisions about acquiring new equipment either to enhance its performance or to substitute it for a new one altogether. To help you interpret all this (at times overwhelming) information for the best of your equipment, HARDiNFO Pro offers a series of benchmark utilities that will compare the level of performance of your processor, hard disks, disc drives, network, display, and memory card against a number of similar components from top-market manufacturers.
HARDiNFO Pro is a 64-bit utility that provides you not only with the most detailed information about your computer and its components, but also with diagnostic and benchmark tools suitable for all, from the average user to the IT professional.
v8.0 [Feb 18, 2017]
- NEW HARDiNFO is now completely redesigned and optimized for Windows 10.
- NEW HARDiNFO is now 64-bit only, for 32-bit computers please use an older version.
- NEW Responsive User-Interface with support for large monitors with high resolutions.
- NEW Added Image Capture and Export to PNG or JPG for each page using the camera icon from the top-right corner.
- NEW Added Windows UpTime and InstallDate to System Summary.
- NEW Added OS Language Information to OS info page.
- NEW Added Portable OS Information to OS info page.
- NEW Added Registry Size Graphic Gauge to OS info page.
- NEW Added System Disk Load Graphic Gauge to OS info page.
- NEW Added Windows CD / Activation Key to OS info page.
- NEW Added System Disk Drive Name and Model to OS info page.
- NEW Added .NET Framework Version Detection to OS info page.
- NEW Memory Card Benchmark with IOPS and bigger buffers to get the maximum performance from the latest fast memory cards.
- NEW SSD Benchmark with bigger buffers to get the maximum performance from the latest fast SSDs and new 4K IOPS test with 4 parallel files to reflect the performance of real applications.
- NEW Hard Drive Benchmark with bigger buffers to get the maximum performance from the latest fast hard drives.
- NEW Network Monitor is now available in PRO version which was previously available only Enteprise version.
- NEW Added support for over 140 new AMD/ATI graphic card models (mobile and desktop).
- NEW Added support for DDR4 memory type.
- NEW Added Part Number info for RAM memory.
- NEW Added Stepping and CPU Family number to CPU info.
- NEW Added Intel CPU Integrated Graphics Info.
- Removed Multimedia Card, MiniSD and SmartMedia cards from Memory Card Benchmark, as they are no longer in production.
- Removed Firewire controllers info as these controllers are no longer in use.
- Removed IPX Network information from Network Configuration.
- Improved BIOS Version in System Summary now shows the SMBIOS version which represents the BIOS firmware.
- Improved Detection of Video Memory for display adapters with more than 2GB memory.
- Improved BIOS Version detection in Motherboard page.
- Changed Memory speed info is now in MHz instead of nanoseconds.
- Fixed WINS settings in Network Configuration.
- Other minor fixes and improvements.
