Hardware detection program?

[jfenwick]

A friend got conned into buying an acer machine....buddy basic office system essentially. He knows nothing about computers so I'm trying to help him out with a bit for an upgrade. Right now he's running an athlon 64 3800+ with 1gb of ram, guessing its onboard video but can someone recommend a program to ID all the makes and model numbers of mobo, RAM, etc... on the comp. He doesn't know enough to open it up and find it for me and i don't want to take a trip to his place is too far away.

 

[peterhuang913]

|MG| EVEREST Free Edition 2.20
Very graphical and user-friendly.
I'm sure even your friend can understand it.
Here's a screenie:

 

[jfenwick]

awesome, is exactly what he needs.

Thanks,

 

[superdave1984]

Also there is Aida32 and Belarc.

 

[Baez]

And of course PCWizard from the makers of CPU-Z