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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 power of the Core i7 2630QM processor is evident from these results, able to distance itself significantly from the Core i5 and Core i3 machines being used for comparison. Memory bandwidth is also a particularly strong result for the MSI GT680 system.
Awesome ! I love the look, very alienware, but better value.
the spec is really very good for the price. I think the GFX is the weak spot however. but adding something more powerful might require more space inside, as well as adding to the price. probably cost 2k for the higher end nvidia mobile gpu
I have one of these already 🙂 I can highly recommend it, but I dont have the one with the SSD, mine is raid 0 – two mechanicals.
Only negative is the heat on your lap, even when watching youtube videos. it can get a bit toasty imo
Very loud design and I agree, almost alienware like in appearance.
I do like it however, but I wish more of these manufacturers would offer backlit keyboards like apple do. its really helpful at night or in darker condfitions.
I really like the looks of it. the panels along the edges is nice. Can the colours be controlled like alienware via software?
Do they make a 17 inch version of this?
I dont like the styling, its over the top imo. Good spec but needs a different chassis design
Core i7 is great, id love one myself for mobile. This is 4 and 4 core, right?
They make brilliant laptops but i had their last gt and the battery failed in 9 months. They replaced it eventually
17″ version with backlit keyboard and better graphics will be a blast later on this year, MSI gaming is the best!!!!