Giving the user the ability to draw comparisons at both a high and low-level. You can get information about the CPU, chipset, video adapter, ports, printers, sound card, memory, network, Windows internals, AGP, ODBC Connections, USB2, 1394/Firewire, etc.

Native ports for all major operating systems are available:
- Windows XP, 2003, Vista, 2008 (x86)
- Windows XP, 2003, Vista, 2008 (AMD64/EM64T)
- Windows 2003/2008 (IA64)
- Windows Mobile 5 (ARM CE 5.01)
- Windows Mobile 6 (ARM CE 5.02)

All major technologies are supported and taken advantage of:
- SMP - Multi-Processor
- MC - Multi-Core
- SMT/HT - Hyper-Threading
- MMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSSE3 - Multi-Media instructions
- Wireless MMX - Mobile multi-media instructions
- NUMA - Non-Uniform Memory Access
- AMD64/EM64T/x64 - 64-bit extensions to x86
- IA64 - Intel* Itanium 64-bit

Key features:
- 4 native architectures support (x86, x64/AMD64/EM64T, IA64/Itanium3, ARM).
- 3 native platforms support (Windows, Windows Mobile, Windows CE4).
- Additional platforms supported through Java RE (e.g. Linux, FreeBSD, Mac OSX, Solaris5).
- Additional platforms supported through .NET CLR (e.g. Mono/Linux5).
- 19 established benchmarking modules, 4 new to this version.
- 38 detailed information modules, 4 new to this version.
- Huge official hardware support through technology partners (Intel, AMD/ATI, SiS, VIA)
- Future instructions set support (Intel SSE46, AMD SSE4A6) on x86 and x64/AMD64/EM64T platforms.
- 6 charting options: combined, detailed, differences, components, performance vs. speed charts.
- 5 language versions (English, German, French, Italian, Russian) in a single installer.
- Enhanced Sandra Lite version (free for personal/educational use)

OC: Windows XP/2003/Vista/2008
Release: 25.12.2008
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