System Information |

The System information tab contains a snapshot of key information about the current system at the time BurnInTest starts:
• | System summary
A brief summary of the system: Operating system, CPU, RAM, graphics card, local disks and optical drives.
• | General
Information about the system manufacturer, motherboard and BIOS.
• | CPU
CPU type, number of CPU's, features and cache information. Many modern CPU's will also have their Bus multiplier, Scalable Bus frequency and Front Side Bus Frequency displayed. Information such as the Manufacturer internal code name, socket type, fabrication size and revision are included when available. Note: It is recommended that other CPU intensive software not be running when BurnInTest starts as this can impact the measurement of the CPU speed. The CPU features shown indicate that the CPU supports the features as outlined in the following list:
MMX | Multimedia Extensions.
3DNow! | 3DNow! is a multimedia extension instruction set created by AMD.
SSE | Streaming SIMD Extensions (SSE) is a SIMD (Single Instruction, Multiple Data) instruction set extension.
SSE2 | SSE2, Streaming SIMD Extensions 2.
SSE3 | SSE3, Streaming SIMD Extensions 3.
SSSE3 | Supplemental Streaming SIMD Extension 3 (SSSE3).
SSE4.1, SSE4.2 | Instruction set for the Intel Core micro architecture. Intel SSE4 consists of 54 instructions. A subset consisting of 47 instructions, referred to as SSE4.1. SSE4.2, a second subset consisting of the 7 remaining instructions.
SSE4a | 2 new AMD SSE instructions.
DEP | Data Execution Prevention (DEP) is a security feature included in Microsoft Windows. It is intended to prevent an application from executing code from a non-executable memory region.
PAE | Physical Address Extension (PAE) refers to a feature that allows more than 4 gigabytes (GB) of physical memory to be used in 32-bit systems, given appropriate operating system support.
AMD64 | AMD64 is AMD's implementation of x86-64 (64-bit computing).
Intel64 | Intel 64 is Intel's implementation of x86-64 (64-bit computing).
VMX | x86 virtualization is a method where "guest" operating systems run under another "host" operating system.
SMX | Safer Mode Extensions. The CPU supports Intel Trusted Execution Technology.
Turbo | Intel Turbo mode is supported.
AES | Advanced Encryption Standard.
Turbo core | AMD Turbo core is supported.
AVX | Advanced Vector Extensions.
AVX2 | Advanced Vector Extensions 2. Expands most integer instructions to 256 bits.
XOP | eXtended Operations.
FMA3 | Fused multiply-add 3. Extensions to the 128 and 256-bit SIMD instructions.
FMA4 | Fused multiply-add 4.
Note: This section provides a link, Online CPU comparison, that provides an online comparison of the current CPU type performance with many other CPU types.
• | Memory
Total and available RAM, RAM modules, Memory devices (where available, RAM module type, size, speed, serial number and manufacturer) and Paging file information. Note 1: The Total RAM reported is the total available to the Operating system, i.e. the effective total. This may be less that the physical memory in the system. For example, if a system has 4GB of physical memory with a 32-bit operating system, then there may only be 3.3GB (for example) in total RAM available to the Operating System. Note 2: If memory bandwidth is available, e.g. "Module1: 1024MB (667MHz)", it should be noted that this is the marketed "bandwidth". This is typically the peak transfer capacity of the memory chips, and not the actual clock on the memory chip, and not the transfer rate of the memory module. For example DDR2-667 has a memory clock speed of 166MHz, an I/O Bus clock frequency of 333MHz and a peak data transfer of 667 Million data transfers per second. This is often referred to as PC2-5300 or PC-5400, as the peak data transfer of the memory module (not the individual chips) is approximately 5300 or 5400 MB/s Note 3: Detailed Memory module SPD data is available in a level 2 activity trace log file. This includes information such as the memory module timings. An example is shown here.
• | Graphics
Graphics cards model, type, amount of memory, BIOS version, device driver information (provider, version and date) and monitor information (resolution, color depth and frequency). Note: The device driver reported may be the version of the main graphics card device driver, and this may be different to the 'product' version number that wraps up multiple device drivers.
• | Disk volumes
List of Disk volumes on the system.
• | Disk drives
List of physical hard disks, serial number and size.
• | Optical drives
List of optical drives.
• | Network
List of network adapters.
• | Ports
List of Serial, Parallel, PS2 and FireWire ports. List of USB Host Controllers and connected USB devices. To list all USB Ports it is suggested to plug in a PassMark USB 2.0 Loopback Plug into all free USB ports.