The German print magazine C't (issue 24, 2009) recently published a good overview article of hardware analysis tools. In this post, I listed all tools that that have an English user interface and added a short description. Note that not all of the tools are free; I made a note if it is commercial program.
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ASTRA32 - System information tool with support for driver trouble shooting and HDD health status checking. Prices start at $29.95
HWiNFO32 - System information tool. I reviewed the tool a few days ago.
SIW (System Information for Windows) - Is able to run in batch mode and can be used as simple inventory solution. Only free for private use; freeware version doesn't support reports
SIV (System Information Viewer) - Portable tool that gives a good overview of hardware components. I also reviewed this tool.
Sisoft Sandra (System ANalyser, Diagnostic and Reporting Assistant) - lite version is free for private use. Pro edition supports push install and Windows domains
HWMonitor - Reads PC systems main health sensors : voltages, temperatures, fans speed. I tried the tool a few days ago.
SpeedFan - Monitor the temperature of various hardware components and take measures if certain limits are reached; I reviewed the tool a while back.
CPUBurn - Allows you to heavily load CPU chips; this can be useful if you want to test if CPU cooling works reliably. Also check out CPUKiller which I reviewed some time ago.
RightMark CPU Clock utility: Real-time CPU frequency, throttling and load level monitoring and on-the-fly adjustment of the CPU performance level. Only free for private use.
CINEBENCH - Measures the performance of the main processor and the graphics card
CPU-Z - Gathers detailed information on CPU, mainboard, and memory
GPU-Z - Gathers detailed information on video card and GPU
Rivatuner - Tweaking environment to tune NVIDIA GPU based display adapters
Atitool - Overclocking utility for ATI and NVIDIA video cards
RightMark Memory Analyzer - Measures real RAM bandwidth, average/minimal latency of different cache levels
HDD Health - Monitors hard disks using Self Monitoring and Reporting Technology (S.M.A.R.T.) and alerts you to impending failure
HD Tune - HD benchmark utility; free version doesn't support write benchmarks
IOMeter - Another free HD benchmark utility; I reviewed it a while back.
BlueScreenView - Scans minidump files created during "blue screen of death" crashes; useful to analyze crashes caused by device drivers
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Device Remover - Detailed view of installed devices; supports bulk removal of devices drivers. Please read my review.
And the new product by Piriform: Speccy .