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I needed to know a little bit of very technical information about the hardware in one of my PCs today (whether or not the processor supported the SSE2 instruction set) and in the process I found a great utility that details just about everything I could ever need to know about a PC’s CPU, cache, mainboard, and memory – the utility is called CPUID CPU-Z is and it is freeware. It’s also worth checking out some of the other utilities on the CPUID website.
For Linux users, Todd Allen’s CPUID is very useful (as is
cat /proc/cpuinfobut doesn’t seem to offer all of the information that is available from CPU-Z.