HWiNFO Walkthrough

HWiNFO32 by REALiX provides you with comprehensive system information details including hardware analysis, monitoring, and reporting for Windows and DOS. Here's a walkthrough of what you can expect to find out about your system with this software.

For the software, you can grab the 32 and 64 bit versions below.
http://www.majorgeeks.com/files/details/hwinfo32.html
http://www.majorgeeks.com/files/details/hwinfo64.html

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Geeks Tim Tibet here with majorgeeks.com
today we're going to take a look at
hwinfo64 also available for 32bit also
available for dos basically this is a
system information utility basically
kind of could say it's on steroids
there's quite a bit to it but like
anything else it's actually very simple
to use so we're going to take a look at
what you see when you start it up you
have your settings which you might want
to play with however I've had no real
need to play around with any of this
stuff but if you have any problems
running it you might want to consider
checking some of your options on here
depending on your issue that's a whole
video probably in of itself but again
for the most part it should run just
fine the way it is okay so you can run
sensors only summary only or if you
click run you get them both so let's
take a quick look sensors uses your
motherboard to take a look at everything
on there and monitor your Hardware
everything from speeds to usage to uh
fan speeds or temperatures so this is
very important for somebody like me
right now cuz I've actually put a new
power supply in and I got a new video
card and I'm about to put a new
motherboard in because well my
motherboard won't accept the video card
so by the time I get done gutting this
whole computer putting it back together
you better make really really sure that
your fans are working right that you're
able to come in and monitor your
temperatures correctly to make sure
you're not doing any kind of overheating
because it doesn't take long to overheat
a processor but although I'll see the
fans are running I'll be confident it's
running I'd like to be able to use this
just to make sure that my processor's
clock is running correctly and
everything's plugged in correctly and
working correctly you got to love it
voltage settings anything you want is in
here so Drive temperatures it's awesome
uh GPU Etc again it's it's a little more
hardcore for most people but if you need
to play with it and you know what you're
doing you probably don't need much help
from me in this area so let's go back
and try it again and it's again instead
of running both let's just go to the sum
which is what most of you will probably
need just the summary so go ahead and
hit run on that and there she is you
have all the summary the information
that you basically need now there's my
processor here's what's handy too it
turns out the i7 as I was changing my
motherboard it turns out that there's
multiple motherboards depending on which
i7 you have so in about 30 minutes after
I finish this video I'm in my truck to
go tell them I have the socket H2 LGA
a155 and I can by the correct
motherboard I didn't have that
information yesterday and I actually
used this program to make sure that I
knew exactly which i7 I had and exactly
which socket I had I wanted more
information than Windows would give me
here's my video card there's additional
information as well down here on your
system memory as you can see I have two
8 GB sticks of crucial RAM and it'll
break down if it's a DDR3 sometimes you
need to know that clock
speed uh what kind of motherboard I have
which frankly since it's an Acer
computer I know it's an Intel board I
just don't know what it is now I know
there's my hard drive I'm currently
running just one in my DVD because as I
said my computer's in pieces right now
well it's running but it's in pieces
somewhat what version of Windows you
have UEFI boot Etc so and finally one
more time let's start her up again let's
uncheck everything and let's hit run and
the reason being is this is great if
you've got the information that you want
but you might need a little bit more for
example somebody might have told you I
need to know what kind of computer you
have I need to know how much memory you
have I need to know what your
motherboard is what drives you have what
what sound card you have as you can see
right here so essentially you can come
into here now which opens by default and
you can save it you can save it as a
text HTML and obviously you can see a
few more and you can decide where you're
going to save it by clicking browse once
you save that you can email that or
whatever you need to do to whoever is
trying to help you now up here you have
what looks like a driver update and a
bios update those are actually links
over to um es support and their programs
so in other words these are really
actually advertisements probably
affiliate programs you can't fault the
guy trying to make a couple of bucks and
once again like any other program you
have your two paint interface which you
can also come up in here and essentially
you can do everything that you could do
here see we just popped that window back
up that we had closed so you can do
everything from here create the report
there it is again same thing two
different places here and where you saw
it before and that's about it it's a
nice simple easy to use program I like
it it's been around for longer than I
can remember major Geeks is an official
mirror so you can download it safely
from us and there you go so if you got a
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we'll see you next time