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I've fairly recently started work on a small library that tries detect your hardware. The main goal of this is to provide some code that can be used when debugging machines. Usually you test on friends machines, who will probably know what they have in there. But there comes a time that you need to test on a machine from someone who has fairly little idea of what a computer is :D. This is basically meant for those situations. Just run call a few function from the library, and all the data you'd ever need is handed to you on a silver platter. Write the data to a log file or something and you're done. For now I've only been working on a windows version, although I'm hoping to add other OS later as well (of course cpuid works on all systems). So far, I've been working on the CPU detection (which wasn't that hard, since there are numerous utilities out there that also do this). This basically works, but I want to add more info about the caches (already partially implemented), but more importantly, I want to add more human readable data. The sources I've found so far have very little recent data. And although I have found a large sheet of data on AMD processors, I haven't been so lucky with regards to Intel processors yet unfortunately. I also have basic videocard detection up and running. So far this seems to work well on ATI cards, but I still need to find detailed information about NVidia cards. Now my request to you is this: Please download SysID_rev22 and if any of the information is incorrect please contact me. If any information from the CPU is missing (this will be indicated by a number instead of a string in the first block of information), I'd be very greatful if you could also contact me with as detailed information about the CPU as you can. For those interested, two utilities to detect your CPU: Intel AMD Edit: updated link. [Edited by - rick_appleton on August 21, 2005 4:43:54 PM]
