hwinfo Alternatives

hwinfo is described as '/libhd are used to probe for the hardware present in the system. It can be used to generate a system overview log which can be later used for support' and is a system information utility in the os & utilities category. There are more than 100 alternatives to hwinfo for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, Android and BSD apps. The best hwinfo alternative is CPU-Z, which is free. Other great apps like hwinfo are Rainmeter, HWiNFO (32/64), Speccy and Libre Hardware Monitor.

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  1. UserDiag icon
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    UserDiag is a PC diagnostic tool that allows you to explore detailed information about your device. With it, you can easily check the overall health of your computer and get advice if any issues are identified.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  2. WattSeal icon
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    Real-time PC power consumption monitor — see watts per app & per component, track your carbon footprint & electricity cost.

    12 WattSeal alternatives

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    • Windows
    • Mac
    • Linux
     
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    Inxi is a system information script that can display various things about your hardware and software to users in an irc chatroom or support forum. it runs with the /exec command in most irc clients.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  4. Psensor icon
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    Psensor is a graphical hardware temperature monitor for Linux. It can monitor the temperature of the motherboard and CPU sensors (using lm-sensors), the temperature of the NVidia GPUs (using XNVCtrl), the temperature of ATI/AMD GPUs, the temperature of the Hard Disk Drives...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Linux
     
  5. GST is a GTK system utility designed to stress and monitor various hardware components like CPU and RAM.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  6. EtreCheck icon
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    EtreCheck is a simple little app to display the important details of your system configuration and allow you to copy that information to the Clipboard. It is meant to be used with Apple Support Communities to help people help you with your Mac.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  7. MacCPUID icon
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    MacCPUID is a developer tool used for displaying information collected from the microprocessor via the CPUID instruction. The CPUID instruction returns information in the general purpose registers such as manufacturer identification, a processor's family, model, and stepping...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  8. SANDRA is a system analyser that includes benchmarking and testing modules. Its scope of work is not restricted to the local system, though. It can analyze remote systems on a Windows domain.

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  9. PulseMonitor icon
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    PulseMonitor is a free, portable PC health monitor for Windows with a clean dark interface. Monitor your CPU, GPU, RAM, storage, network and temperatures in real time with smooth animated graphs.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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    GPU Shark is a simple, lightweight (few hundred of KB) and free GPU monitoring tool, based on ZoomGPU, for NVIDIA GeForce and AMD/ATI Radeon graphics cards. GPU Shark offers a global view of all your graphics cards in a single window.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  11. EF System Monitor gives you a well-rounded tool that can be used to retrieve a permanent record of information on all your network computers; these records include; memory space, hard disk usage, date, time, and username.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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