how to find out motherboard model without taking pc apart

[sh33p1985]

is there a quick way to find out what motherboard is inside a computer without taking it apart and physically reading the model number off the motherboard iteself?

 

[Lorand]

Yes, with some hardware inspector software, like this one: http://www.astra32.com/

 

[Praetor]

Or CPUz http://www.cpuid.com/cpuz.php#download
or PCWizard http://www.cpuid.com/pcw.php#download

 

[GigaBytez5]

There are many kinds of hardware inspectors, some fake, some real. If you find one UNDER 4 MB, Its a fake. Over 4 MB its real. I found this out the hard way...

 

[Praetor]

If you find one UNDER 4 MB, Its a fake. Over 4 MB its real

Thats a fairly broad statement there. Ive wrote a little app that works plenty fine and its miles under 4MB

 

[Lorand]

What would do such a program besides reading some data from the system and displaying it? If it's more than 4 MB then it's very bad written and it fills up hdd space for nothing...

 

[Praetor]

Well you can always add benchmarking

 

[4W4K3]

cpu-z is only 658K i believe, and it does alot of stuff.