PC News and Info

Hardware monitor

Hardware Monitor by CPUID is a program that allows you to view nearly every possible bit of information about your hardware such as fan rpm, ram voltages and even laptop battery wear levels.

CPU-Z

CPU-Z by CPUID is a program that allows you to view every possible bit of information about your cpu.

GPU-Z

GPU-Z by TechPowerUp is a program that allows you to view every possible bit of information about your gpu.

Intel® Extreme Tuning Utility

XTU by Intel is a program that allows you to over/underclock and monitor your cpu

Unigine Benchmarks

The Benchmarks made by Unigine are great tools to benchmark your gpu, Unigine have benchmarks from 2009 to 2017 that are extremely well made and diverse so you can find the perfect benchmark for your card no matter the performance.

Cinebench R20

Cinebench R20 by the team of the world renound Maxon company the creators of cinema 4D is a cpu benchmarking program that uses your cpu to render an image and depending on how fast it renders gives you a cinebench score (higher is better), cinebench scores are well recognised in the processor community as being reliable and accurate.

Userbenchmark

Userbenchmark by ...... Userbenchmark is a suite of benchmarks all in one, virtually every computer enthusiast has run this benchmark on their system so when you benchmark your entire computer it can tell you if your ram per se is under-performing compared to the same ram in another machine, the website is also extremely useful for comparing components as it gives you a straight percentage of how much better one thing is than another.

Notepad ++

Notepad++ is a text editor that also supports most code languages, windows notepad but souped up.

File Viewer Plus

File Viewer Plus by Sharpened Productions is a free small microsoft store program that allows you to view many different file types like pictures, music and just files, that may be in weird codecs.

7 Zip

7Zip by Igor Pavlov is a program that allows you to zip/unzip, compress/un-compress files and is pretty much the gold standard and has been for over a decade.

Geforce Experience

Geforce Experience by Nvidia is a program that allows you to record, stream and tweak game graphics settings and get the latest drivers easily if you have an nvidia gpu.

Bitdefender

Bitdefender is the world's best antivirus software and is free.

Wireshark

Wireshark by The Wireshark Foundation is a network analysis tool that allows you to view all packets and their contents on a wifi, ethernet and even bluetooth networks.

Audacity

Audacity by Audacity Team is a free open source audio recording program with lots of features and a live waveform meter.

Discord

Needs literally no explanation....