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Tip #7: Use winsat as systeminfo

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By Marius Wyss
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You may be familiar with the systeminfo command or msinfo32. These commands are useful to get a quick overview of your hardware.

But did you know that Windows, even the latest Win11, has another tool called Windows System Assessment Tool1 with its command winsat? It is, or rather was, designed to evaluate the hardware performance of your system. However, we can (ab)use it off-label: to extract some more detailed system infos by running.

winsat features -eef -xml c:\yourpath\winsatinfo.xml

The resulting xml would look something like this: Notice it get the even memory manufacturer, graphics driver version, CPU features, etc…

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?>
<WinSAT>
    <ProgramInfo>
        <Name>WinSAT</Name>
        <Version>V10.0 ENG Build-22621.1</Version>
        <WinEIVersion>WinEI-1.60</WinEIVersion>
        <Title>Windows System Assessment Tool</Title>
        <ModulePath>C:\Windows\System32\WinSAT.exe</ModulePath>
        <CmdLine><![CDATA["C:\Windows\System32\WinSAT.exe" features -eef -xml d:\test.xml]]></CmdLine>
        <Note><![CDATA[]]></Note>
    </ProgramInfo>
    <SystemEnvironment>
        <ExecDateTOD Friendly="Thursday February 16, 2023  7:29:13pm">738567:70153144</ExecDateTOD>
        <IsOfficial>1</IsOfficial>
        <RanOverTs>0</RanOverTs>
        <RanOnBatteries>0</RanOnBatteries>
    </SystemEnvironment>
    <WinSPR>
        <VideoEncodeScore>9.9</VideoEncodeScore>
        <Dx9SubScore>9.9</Dx9SubScore>
        <Dx10SubScore>9.9</Dx10SubScore>
        <GamingScore>9.9</GamingScore>
        <LimitsApplied>
            <GamingScore>
                <LimitApplied Friendly="We no longer run the D3D test. Returned scores and metrics are hardcoded sentinel values.">NoD3DTestRun</LimitApplied>
            </GamingScore>
        </LimitsApplied>
    </WinSPR>
    <Metrics>
        <CPUMetrics>
            <DshowEncodeTime units="s">0.00000</DshowEncodeTime>
        </CPUMetrics>
        <GraphicsMetrics>
            <DshowVideoDecodeDur units="s">0.00000</DshowVideoDecodeDur>
            <MFVideoDecodeDur units="s">0.00000</MFVideoDecodeDur>
        </GraphicsMetrics>
    </Metrics>
    <SystemConfig>
        <OperationVersion Major="1" Minor="0" Build="0" Revision="0"/>
        <CmdLine/>
        <OSVersion>
            <Major>10</Major>
            <Minor>0</Minor>
            <Build>22621</Build>
            <ProductType>48</ProductType>
            <ProductName>Windows 10 Pro</ProductName>
            <OSName><![CDATA[Windows 11 Pro]]></OSName>
            <BuildLab>22621.ni_release.220506-1250</BuildLab>
        </OSVersion>
        <HistoryVersion>0</HistoryVersion>
        <Platform>
            <IsMobile>0</IsMobile>
            <PlatformRole desc="Desktop">1</PlatformRole>
        </Platform>
        <System>
            <MotherBoard>
                <Manufacturer><![CDATA[ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC.]]></Manufacturer>
                <Product><![CDATA[ROG STRIX Z390-E GAMING]]></Product>
                <Type>10</Type>
            </MotherBoard>
            <BIOS>
                <Vendor><![CDATA[American Megatrends Inc.]]></Vendor>
                <Version><![CDATA[2004]]></Version>
                <ReleaseDate><![CDATA[11/02/2021]]></ReleaseDate>
            </BIOS>
            <Machine>
                <Manufacturer><![CDATA[ASUS]]></Manufacturer>
                <ProductName><![CDATA[System Product Name]]></ProductName>
                <Version><![CDATA[System Version]]></Version>
            </Machine>
        </System>
        <Processor>
            <Instance id="0">
                <ProcessorName>Intel(R) Core(TM) i9-9900K CPU @ 3.60GHz</ProcessorName>
                <TSCFrequency>0</TSCFrequency>
                <NumProcs>1</NumProcs>
                <NumCores>8</NumCores>
                <NumCPUs>16</NumCPUs>
                <NumCPUsPerCore>2</NumCPUsPerCore>
                <NumCoresPerProcessor>8</NumCoresPerProcessor>
                <CoresAreThreaded>1</CoresAreThreaded>
                <X64Capable>1</X64Capable>
                <X64Running>1</X64Running>
                <Signature>
                    <Manufacturer friendly="Intel">2</Manufacturer>
                    <Stepping>12</Stepping>
                    <Model>14</Model>
                    <Family>6</Family>
                    <ExtendedModel>9</ExtendedModel>
                    <ExtendedFamily>0</ExtendedFamily>
                    <CompactSignature>REDACTED</CompactSignature>
                </Signature>
                <L1Cache>
                    <Size>32768</Size>
                    <Ways>8</Ways>
                    <LineSize>64</LineSize>
                    <SectorSize>32768</SectorSize>
                </L1Cache>
                <L2Cache>
                    <Size>262144</Size>
                    <Ways>4</Ways>
                    <LineSize>64</LineSize>
                    <SectorSize>262144</SectorSize>
                </L2Cache>
                <L3Cache>
                    <Size>16777216</Size>
                    <Ways>16</Ways>
                    <LineSize>64</LineSize>
                    <SectorSize>16777216</SectorSize>
                </L3Cache>
                <MMX>Yes</MMX>
                <SSE>Yes</SSE>
                <SSE2>Yes</SSE2>
                <SSE3>Yes</SSE3>
                <LogicalProcessorInfo>REDACTED</LogicalProcessorInfo>
            </Instance>
        </Processor>
        <Memory>
            <TotalPhysical>
                <Size>32GB</Size>
                <Bytes>34270449664</Bytes>
            </TotalPhysical>
            <AvailablePhysical>
                <Size>21GB</Size>
                <Bytes>23048445952</Bytes>
            </AvailablePhysical>
            <DIMM>
                <SizeInKB>16777216</SizeInKB>
                <Manufacturer><![CDATA[Kingston]]></Manufacturer>
                <PartNumber><![CDATA[KHX3000C15/16GX]]></PartNumber>
                <FormFactor>9</FormFactor>
                <MemoryType>26</MemoryType>
                <TypeDetail>128</TypeDetail>
            </DIMM>
            <DIMM>
                <SizeInKB>16777216</SizeInKB>
                <Manufacturer><![CDATA[Kingston]]></Manufacturer>
                <PartNumber><![CDATA[KHX3000C15/16GX]]></PartNumber>
                <FormFactor>9</FormFactor>
                <MemoryType>26</MemoryType>
                <TypeDetail>128</TypeDetail>
            </DIMM>
        </Memory>
        <Monitors>
            <Count>1</Count>
            <TotalMonitorPixels>4953600</TotalMonitorPixels>
            <Monitor id="0" primary="1">
                <DeviceName><![CDATA[\\.\DISPLAY1]]></DeviceName>
                <Width>3440</Width>
                <Height>1440</Height>
                <TotalMonitorPixels>4953600</TotalMonitorPixels>
            </Monitor>
        </Monitors>
        <Graphics>
            <AdapterDescription><![CDATA[NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti]]></AdapterDescription>
            <AdapterManufacturer><![CDATA[NVIDIA]]></AdapterManufacturer>
            <DriverProvider><![CDATA[NVIDIA]]></DriverProvider>
            <DriverVersion Friendly="31.0.15.2824">8725724279016200</DriverVersion>
            <DriverDate Friendly="2023\1\15">738535:0</DriverDate>
            <DedicatedVideoMemory>11577327616</DedicatedVideoMemory>
            <DedicatedSystemMemory>0</DedicatedSystemMemory>
            <SharedSystemMemory>17135224832</SharedSystemMemory>
            <Suports32BitsPerPixel>1</Suports32BitsPerPixel>
            <D3D9OrBetter>1</D3D9OrBetter>
            <VertexShaderProfile>vs_3_0</VertexShaderProfile>
            <PixelShaderProfile>ps_3_0</PixelShaderProfile>
            <PixelShader2OrBetter>1</PixelShader2OrBetter>
            <PixelShader3OrBetter>1</PixelShader3OrBetter>
            <LDDM>1</LDDM>
            <WHQL>0</WHQL>
            <PNPID><![CDATA[PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_1E07&SUBSYS_866A1043&REV_A1]]></PNPID>
            <DWMRunningOnStart>1</DWMRunningOnStart>
            <DWMRunning>1</DWMRunning>
        </Graphics>
        <Disk>
            <Disk id="\\.\PhysicalDrive0">
                <DiskNum>0</DiskNum>
                <Vendor><![CDATA[]]></Vendor>
                <Model><![CDATA[Samsung SSD 850 PRO 1TB]]></Model>
                <Size units="bytes">1024209543168</Size>
                <WriteCacheEnabled>TRUE</WriteCacheEnabled>
            </Disk>
            <Disk id="\\.\PhysicalDrive1">
                <DiskNum>1</DiskNum>
                <Vendor><![CDATA[]]></Vendor>
                <Model><![CDATA[Samsung SSD 840 PRO Series]]></Model>
                <Size units="bytes">512110190592</Size>
                <WriteCacheEnabled>TRUE</WriteCacheEnabled>
            </Disk>
            <SystemDisk id="\\.\PhysicalDrive2">
                <DiskNum>2</DiskNum>
                <Vendor><![CDATA[]]></Vendor>
                <Model><![CDATA[Samsung SSD 970 EVO 250GB]]></Model>
                <Size units="bytes">250059350016</Size>
                <WriteCacheEnabled>TRUE</WriteCacheEnabled>
            </SystemDisk>
            <Disk id="\\.\PhysicalDrive3">
                <DiskNum>3</DiskNum>
                <Vendor><![CDATA[]]></Vendor>
                <Model><![CDATA[INTEL SSDPEKNW010T8]]></Model>
                <Size units="bytes">1024209543168</Size>
                <WriteCacheEnabled>TRUE</WriteCacheEnabled>
            </Disk>
        </Disk>
        <CompletionStatus description="Success">0</CompletionStatus>
        <AssessmentRunTime>
            <Seconds>0</Seconds>
            <Description>00:00:00.00</Description>
        </AssessmentRunTime>
    </SystemConfig>
    <CompletionStatus description="Success">0</CompletionStatus>
    <TotalRunTime>
        <Seconds>0.16</Seconds>
        <Description>00:00:00.16</Description>
    </TotalRunTime>
</WinSAT>

Footnotes

  1. see more here https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/windows/it-pro/windows-server-2012-r2-and-2012/cc742091(v=ws.11) ↩︎

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