

Speccy is intuitive to use thanks to the left-hand panel that lists the parts of your PC including ‘Operating System’, ‘CPU’, ‘RAM’, ‘Motherboard’, ‘Graphics’, ‘Storage’, ‘Optical Drives’, ‘Audio’, ‘Peripherals’, and ‘Network’. Speccy delivers detailed information about your PC in the form of reports that are categorized into tabs in the clean user interface. Since Speccy can contain sensitive info about your PC, you will want to make sure that you only share your snapshot with people that you trust. Whoever gets the snapshot can click around the shot just like in the real app. Screenshots are clickable by yourself and the recipients. The snapshot option is meant to be used between Speccy users since the screenshot is interactive like the user interface is. The tool gives you a special screenshot feature that does more than just take a still shot of the Speccy user interface. Though we've seen lots of system information utilities and even find the Windows feature useful, Speccy looks like a keeper.Speccy is safe to use since the application is free of adware and malware. Piriform's freeware has impressed us with its value, and Speccy fits the form. We also like the ability to save and reload system "Snapshots" as XML or text files, or even optional INI files. It accurately displayed sensor data from the CPU and two hard drives, offering reassuring proof that our disks and CPU were all operating well within their rated temperature range the dual-core Pentium 4 in our testbed ran at a frosty 37 degrees C. Our favorite function by far is the temperature display. The Help file links to a product Web page, but it's more than adequate, and Speccy's about as easy to use as any program out there it just shows you what's going on with your PC. Speccy has few settings beyond language and temperature (Fahrenheit or Celsius). Clicking anything calls up a more detailed view of the component's operating conditions and statistics.

The left-hand navigation window lists Summary, which gives a handy system overview, as well as CPU, RAM, and so on. Speccy's sleek dialog, gray tones, and small but crisp and colorful icons give a modern look to the familiar Windows interface. It even displays the temperature of compatible hardware. It shows the brand, model, version, driver, file, location, capacity, operating condition, and other data about your system's CPU, motherboard, RAM, graphics card, disk drives, optical drives, audio, peripherals, network, and operating system. Its mission is to collect and display more-detailed information about your hardware and its performance than is offered by Windows, even the latest versions. Piriform's Speccy is a nifty little system information utility.
