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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
Processor performance falls in line with what we would expect at these speeds, slightly outperforming the Core i7 2600k (with a 100mhz deficit) from several generations ago. Memory performance is a little disappointing, although the timings on the Kingston sticks is quite loose.
Well I love PCSPECIALIST too, but this is better than anything ive seen from them this year. have they a new system builder team in there? my mate has an OCUK from 2 years ago and its a POS.
Well im not a fan of prebuilts either, but this is as good as I could build myself. better if I was being honest. shame they dont offer the 4770k, id like the four extra cores
I still think you could spec a system like this for a few hundred less. still, nice build.
Haven’t ordered from OCUK in years. just built my own system. Have to chip in with a vote of ‘good build’ too.
I noticed the motherboard immediately, gettign sick seeing asus boards recently on kitguru, so nice move from OCUK.
That corsair case is great, my friend bought from scan a while ago, its tiny, cant tell that from the pictures. very portable and light, but well built.
They make great products, good to see the PSU, cooler, case etc, are all corsair. Is the PSU ok? never seen that model before.
Still prefer the 3570k or 3770k, they could have got it to 4.8ghz easy with that cooler. No need for integrated graphics with a GTX770.
Intel are sucking this generation.