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SIV - System Information Viewer VS Sidebar Diagnostics

Compare SIV - System Information Viewer VS Sidebar Diagnostics and see what are their differences

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SIV by Ray Hinchliffe.

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SidebarDiagnostics - A simple sidebar for Windows desktop that displays hardware diagnostic information.
  • SIV - System Information Viewer Landing page
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    2021-10-09
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    2023-09-20

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Category Popularity

0-100% (relative to SIV - System Information Viewer and Sidebar Diagnostics)
Monitoring Tools
24 24%
76% 76
Device Management
23 23%
77% 77
System Information
24 24%
76% 76
Utilities
27 27%
73% 73

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Social recommendations and mentions

Based on our record, SIV - System Information Viewer seems to be more popular. It has been mentiond 14 times since March 2021. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.

SIV - System Information Viewer mentions (14)

  • CaseLabs S8 Build - “Brutus” - Many months of passive ordering and building on the weekends.
    I started conversing with the author of SIV on the Corsair forum many years ago. We still chat on occasion, usually when he adds a new feature he wants to test on various systems. When I got into Aquacomputer devices, I helped him add support for them. The code is way over my head but I can try the beta versions and report what works and what doesn't until he nails it. If you are interested, you can find SIV at... Source: 10 months ago
  • What free software makes your life easier?
    Http://rh-software.com/ hwinfo got nothin on this It way more information in a way more condensed form Maybe not everyone's tea but its really good too. Source: 11 months ago
  • F*ck acrylic tubing
    I got fed up with Corsair back in the Link days and have been using a program called SIV to control my Corsair PWM and RGB controllers for years. SIV (not Gigabyte's SIV) is a system monitoring program similar to HWINFO but more expansive. The author of SIV got fed up with Corsair's buggy software so he reverse-engineered their protocols and added support for many Corsair products to SIV. SIV is extremely... Source: 11 months ago
  • There will be no success here... rip my sanity
    Icue doesn't "block" other applications. It just shoots out polling requests like a drunk soldier with a machine gun, with no regard for other polling requests. The annoying part of this is that the author of SIV was helping Corsair improve their code and showed them how to properly implement the polling mutex, which they did in the later versions of Corsair Link. When they rolled out Icue, they decided that the... Source: about 1 year ago
  • HP Zbook Studio G5
    I am not sure why it says `0x0000`, which implies that the ROM is not being read at all. This is the case regardless whether I pass in a ROM file or not. It might be worth noting that I had a lot of trouble extracting the ROM and managed to do this on a native Windows 11 install using System Information Viewer. Source: about 1 year ago
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Sidebar Diagnostics mentions (0)

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What are some alternatives?

When comparing SIV - System Information Viewer and Sidebar Diagnostics, you can also consider the following products

Speccy - Speccy - find the details of your computer's specs. Great for spotting issues or finding compatible upgrades. Download the latest version free.

Open Hardware Monitor - Monitors temperature sensors, fan speeds, voltages, load and clock speeds, with optional graph.

SIW - SIW is an advanced System Information for Windows tool.

CPU-Z - CPU-Z is a freeware that gathers information on some of the main devices of your system : Processor name and number, codename, process, package, cache levels.

AIDA64 - AIDA64 is a system information, diagnostics and benchmarking solution for Windows PC.

SpeedFan - Hardware monitor for Windows that can access digital temperature sensors located on several 2-wire SMBus Serial Bus. Can access voltages and fan speeds and control fan speeds. Includes technical articles and docs.