Speccy

About Speccy

Speccy is a lightweight computer program that can display detailed information about your hardware. While you plan to buy a new CPU or RAM, knowing if your motherboard supports the type of RAM or processor you want to purchase it's crucial. Most users don't update their computers' hardware often because they choose to go out and buy a premade one. This practice is common among people who don't care about having technical knowledge concerning personal computers. And you can't blame. Sometimes it's challenging to figure out what motherboard the PC has.

Know more about your computer or laptop

Thanks to tools like Speccy, we can discover the components present inside our computers in a matter of seconds. Since Piriform, the developer behind other handy apps like Recuva and CCleaner, is the one publishing this tool, expect it to be quite accurate. Its problem is the lack of updates, leading to highly questionable information concerning VRAM and temperatures. But if you plan to use Speccy for figuring out your PC's hardware, it should do its job just fine.

Simple and intuitive window layout

Download the file, run the installer, adjust the adjustable parameters, and wait for the installation process to finish. After that, launch the shortcut and check out the available data. Inside the nicely designed main interface, you can read a summary of your system and go in-depth if you need to. Speccy can display detailed information on every piece of hardware in your computer. You can save these results directly as a snapshot, XML, or text file for easy sharing. You can obtain some data about your hardware just by using Windows tools, but Speccy gives a more detailed view.

Read info about your computer's hardware

Concerning the info regarding the processor, this tool provides the speeds of the individual cores, multiplier values, temperatures, bus speeds, and more. Users can see how many RAM slots are in total and how many are populated. Data like memory type, size, frequency, CAS, and RAS timings are available inside the window. This small tool might be handy even if you're dealing with thermal issues using the temperature reporting tool. Due to the lack of updates, in my opinion, you shouldn't trust the data regarding temperatures. It is better to find a tool that reports temps with high accuracy.

Browse through the data

You can change the language of the GUI inside the Options section along with the temperature scale (Celsius and Fahrenheit). You can configure your application to perform automatic update checks and save all settings inside INI files. In addition, on Piriform's official Speccy web page, you can get this software as a Pro version that gives more features. Besides reading information about the motherboard, processor, Ram, and so on, you can also use this program to check out data concerning the monitor, such as resolution, model, width, height, etc.

Works with your drives

Another use for Speccy is to perform a standard hard drive health check by simply reading the SMART parameters. Besides, we can read about our drive partitions and how much free storage space is available on each one. In conclusion, Speccy is a proper tool for identifying hardware and reading information concerning these components.

Download Speccy for Windows