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SiSoftware Sandra (the System ANalyser, Diagnostic and Reporting Assistant) is an information & diagnostic utility. It should provide most of the information (including undocumented) you need to know about your hardware, software and other devices whether hardware or software.Sandra is a (girl’s) name of Greek origin that means “defender”, “helper of mankind”.
We think that’s quite fitting.It works along the lines of other Windows utilities, however it tries to go beyond them and show you more of what’s really going on. Giving the user the ability to draw comparisons at both a high and low-level. You can get information about the CPU, chipset, video adapter, ports, printers, sound card, memory, network, Windows internals, AGP, PCI, PCI-X, PCIe (PCI Express), database, USB, USB2, 1394/Firewire, etc.Native ports for all major operating systems are available:
- Windows XP, 2003/R2, Vista, 7, 2008/R2 (x86)
- Windows XP, 2003/R2, Vista, 7, 2008/R2 (x64)
- Windows 2003/R2, 2008/R2* (IA64)
- Windows Mobile 5.x (ARM CE 5.01)
- Windows Mobile 6.x (ARM CE 5.02)
All major technologies are supported and taken advantage of:
- SMP – Multi-Processor
- MC – Multi-Core
- SMT/HT – Hyper-Threading
- MMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSSE3, SSE 4.1, SSE 4.2, AVX, FMA – Multi-Media instructions
- GPGPU, DirectX, OpenGL – Graphics
- NUMA – Non-Uniform Memory Access
- AMD64/EM64T/x64 – 64-bit extensions to x86
- IA64 – Intel* Itanium 64-bit
The system scores exceptionally well, and we noticed a slight increase over other systems we tested at the weekend, in regards to memory performance. Both ASUS and Gigabyte boards scored between 25Gb/s and 26Gb/s in the memory bandwidth test. The MSI Z87 MPOWER MAX board comes out on top, over 30GB/s in both tests.
my favourite of the bunch so far. awesome work MSI
nice system build. In my dreams.
Seriously though im thinking about this board for my next build – once I get my money back from DABS for a faulty product.
I think the gigabyte boards look the best, but its not that big a deal when they all seem this good. ASUS Is my least favourite.
Good job from MSI with this one – i have had good succcess in the past with MSI products.
I think that this has to be one of the nicest looking 1150 boards that you’ve looked at in the past few days, well done MSI!
bought, own it, love it.