SiSoftware Sandra (the System ANalyser, Diagnostic and Reporting Assistant) is a benchmarking, information and diagnostic software utility for the Windows operating system. It is used to test the performance and capability of, as well as provide detailed information about the specifications of computer hardware. The name Sandra is of Greek origin, and means "defender", or "helper of mankind".

About

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The bulk of the features are contained the Information Modules, which give detailed information about many of the components and systems in a modern PC including CMOS & BIOS information, Motherboard specifications, CPU, chipset, video adapter, ports, printers, sound card, memory, network, Windows internals, AGP, PCI, PCIe, ODBC Connections, USB2, 1394/Firewire, and more. The Benchmarking Modules are used to rate and stress the components that provide measurable performance including the speed of the processor (measured in Dhrystone MIPS, and Whetstone MFLOPS), and the RAM, (measured in MB/s). As well as the chipset, hard drives, and internet speed, they also include scores achieved on many other current components for comparison purposes.

Sandra is popular with overclockers to measure the gains achieved and compare them with other brands/speeds of hardware.

It is available for 32-bit Windows (2000/XP/2003), 64-bit & x64 Windows (XP/2003) as well as Windows CE (Pocket PC 2002/2003/2003SE, Smart Phone 2002/2003/2003SE, CE .Net 4.20).

The available versions are:

• Sandra Lite (free for personal/educational use)
• Sandra Professional (commercial)
• Sandra Engineer (commercially exploitable)
• Sandra Enterprise (commercial)
• Sandra Legacy (home enthusiast)

• http://www.sisoftware.co.uk/?dir=news&location=2007_release (Current version 2007)

List of Modules

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• System Summary
• Mainboard/Chipset/System Monitors Info
• CPU/BIOS Info
• APM & ACPI (Advanced Power Management) Info
• PCI(e), AGP, CardBus, PCMCIA bus and devices Info
• Video Information (monitor, card, video bios, caps, etc.)
• OpenGL Information
• DirectX (DirectDraw, Direct3D, DirectSound (3D), DirectMusic, DirectPlay, DirectInput) Info
• Keyboard Info
• Mouse Info
• Sound Card (wave, midi, aux, mix) Info
• MCI Devices (mpeg, avi, seq, VCR, video-disc, wave) Info
• Joystick Info
• Printers Info
• Windows Memory Info
• Windows Info
• Font (Raster, Vector, TrueType, OpenType) Information
• Modem/ISDN TA Information
• Network Information*
• IP Network Information*
• WinSock & Internet Security Information
• Drives Information (Removable Hard Disks, CD-ROM/DVD, Ramdrives, etc.)
• Ports (Serial/Parallel) Info
• Remote Access Service Connections (Dial-Up, Internet)*
• OLE objects/servers Info*
• Processes (Tasks) & Threads Info
• Modules (DLL, DRV) Info
• Services & Device Drivers (SYS) Info*
• SCSI Information*
• ATA/ATAPI Information
• Data Sources Information*
• CMOS/RTC Information*
• Smart Card & SIM Card Information*

• CPU Arithmetic Benchmark (MP/MT support)
• CPU Multi-Media Benchmark (including MMX, MMX Enh, 3DNow!, 3DNow! Enh, SSE(2)) (MP/MT support)
• File System (Removable, Hard Disks, Network, Ramdrives) Benchmark
• Removable Storage/Flash Benchmark
• CD-ROM/DVD Benchmark
• Memory Bandwidth Benchmark (MP/MT support)
• Cache & Memory Bandwidth Benchmark (MP/MT support)
• Network/LAN Bandwidth Benchmark
• Internet/ISP Connection Benchmark
• Internet/ISP Peerage Benchmark

• Hardware Interrupts Usage*
• DMA Channel Usage*
• I/O Ports Usage*
• Memory Range Usage*
• Plug & Play Enumerator*
• Hardware registry settings
• Environment settings
• Registered File Types
• Key Applications* (web-browser, e-mail, news, anti-virus, firewall, etc.)
• Installed Applications*
• Installed Programs*
• Start Menu Applications*
• On-disk Programs & Libraries*
• Installed Web Packages* (ActiveX, Java classes)
• System Event Logs*

• Burn-in Wizard* (test computer stability)
• Connect Wizard (connect to remote computers, PDAs, Smart Phones and other devices)
• Combined Performance Index Wizard (overall computer performance score)
• Create a Report Wizard (save, print, fax or e-mail in CIM (SMS/DMI), HTML, XML, RPT or TEXT format)
• Performance Tune-Up Wizard (tune-up computer)
• Environment Monitor Wizard (temperatures, voltages, fans, CPU power, cooling solution thermal resistance, etc.)
• WebUpdate Wizard for automatic version updating

• Extensive help file documenting over 500 tips
• Extensive on-line documentation (HTML) with Q & A knowledge base

^* Commercial versions only.

External links

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• http://www.sisoftware.net (sisoftware homepage)
• http://www.jaggedonline.com (buy benchmarks)

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