CPU-Z OC

Knowing the label on your hardware components is far from being able to tell everything about your computer’s internal structure. Luckily, there are various specialized applications like CPU-Z OC, which let you take a peek under the hood of your computer, to check the functioning, and other details related to CPU, GPU, and memory.

One main advantage is that you don’t have to go through a setup process to make the application work, but it’s recommended to run the one for the architecture you’re currently using. The application is best used on PCs fitted with Gigabyte OC mainboards, but it can perfectly read, and display details for other types of components as well.

On the visual side of things, the application is nothing more than a fancy version of its correspondent, namely CPU-Z. All details are cleverly clustered in dedicated sections, so you don’t feel overwhelmed by the abundance of details. Tab support makes navigation easy acros sections for CPU, Cache, Mainboard, Memory, SPD, Graphics, and bench.

Depending on the area of interest, values can change in real time, making it easy to track details like current core speed, voltage, or clock multiplier. You’re able to obtain details related not only to make and model, but also dedicated features, such as virtualization technology, cache descriptor, BIOS version, as well as memory slots.

As mentioned above, there’s a built-in benchmark utility, which enables you to either stress, or bench your CPU, and compare it to others of its class, to see how well it can fair with modern video games, or complex design tools. All of these details can be saved to file, either under a TXT, or HTML report.

Taking everything into consideration, we can say that CPU-Z OC is a powerful hardware component analysis application, this one dedicated to Gigabyte OC mainboards. Even so, it’s capable of reading, and providing most details its correspondent app can, but in a stylish interface. As such, you’re able to know your computer a bit better, helping you out in case you decide to upgrade components, to check compatibility.