System - Machine Info (30)

Best avoided in my experience. Any attempt to run SIV32X.exe results in a BSOD on my Win7HP 32-bit desktop.

If running SIV causes a BSOD then send the dump file which is in C:\Windows\Minidump\ to the author so he can try and fix it.
The screenshot should be updated. It's over 5 years old and the current release looks rather different.

I just ran it on XP and Win 8. No BSODs or any problems what so ever. Very good app. Provides extremely detailed information, more than I've seen on most other system info apps.

I love this program. It's nice, compact, accurate.

I do, however, have a couple of small problems.
I am using Windows 7 Home.

1). I can't set the colours to what I want.
2). When I use my high power battery and it is fully charged, the meter reports 0% power and shows the meter with a blank area at the bottom and top for about 5 minutes after booting.

If these problems can be sorted in the next version, I will definitely make a donation.

@Buzzer: Thank CPUID instead. :) We're not portablizing software, just cataloguing it.

useless. to most of us, PORTABLE requires us to be able to run as NON-ADMIN. can't use this. can't install it. not truly portable. don't get me wrong, I use it all the time on my cluster at home, just can't use this at work or on common machines at school.

@Cattleya: Make sure you download the zip package, because the installer does the following:
"The kernel mode driver used by CPU-Z is installed on the system, that avoids to install / remove it at every run."
The portable version leaves no driver behind, just tested it.

@kc: I used to do sysadmin for a small non-profit org. 7 pc's and 2 printers, no big deal. I carried all my tools on a pendrive. Off course I had admin-rights, but this is a typical scenario a lot of us are in, so it's not entirely useless, portable is the way to go for sysadmins ;)

@Gaxar:

Only 3 engines out of 41 flag GPU-Z, none of them major -- for ex., Comodo has been getting some flack of its own. I wouldn't worry too much...

This, as a couple of the more recent versions, silently fails on my Centrino P8600 Core 2 Duo cum ATI HD 3475 and XP SP3 lappie... :((

It's not mentioned but it requires admin rights to install a driver. Does it remove the driver on system reboot? I don't know, I couldn't find out very much information besides "there's no installation required". The developer proclaims "It's so simple to use, you don't need documentation." LOL. So much for that.

Last but not least GPU-Z and CPU-Z just share similar names, they are developed independently afaik.