Our Download of the Day today is Sandra Lite 2011 SP5 (17.80).

SiSoftware Sandra (the System ANalyser, Diagnostic and Reporting Assistant) is an information & diagnostic utility. It should provide most of the information (including undocumented) you need to know about your hardware, software and other devices whether hardware or software.

It works along the lines of other Windows utilities, however it tries to go beyond them and show you more of what's really going on. 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, PCI, PCI-X, PCIe (PCI Express), database, USB, USB2, 1394/Firewire, and so on.

The latest version includes the following changes:

Changes in Version 2011 SP5 (17.80)

- Includes a brand-new computer-wide benchmark (Overall Score) to rate the overall performance of the computer.

- It includes complete APU benchmarking (CPU+GPU) through the existing GP (General Purpose) benchmarks (GP Arithmetic, GP Cryptography, GP Memory Bandwidth) for the newly released "Fusion"/"Llano" AMD platforms.