What is new at SiSoftware. SiSoftware, founded in 1995, is one of the leading providers of computer analysis, diagnostic and benchmarking software. The flagship product, known as SANDRA, was launched in 1997 and has become one of the most widely used products in its field. SANDRA is used by almost 600 world-wide IT publications, magazines, review sites to analyse the performance of today's computers. Over 6,000 on-line reviews of computer hardware that use SANDRA are catalogued on the company's website alone. en http://www.sisoftware.co.uk SiSoftware Ltd 1995-2008. All Rights Reserved. adrian.silasi.take.out@sisoftware.co.uk (C. Adrian Silasi) webmaster.take.out@sisoftware.co.uk Fri, 13 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT SiSoftware 10080 http://www.sisoftware.co.uk/images/cover.png http://www.sisoftware.co.uk News @ SiSoftware news What is it? A chart, available in all benchmarks that compares the capacity of the device with its purchasing cost. It allows us to view how capacity varies with cost (i.e. how much capacity you get for your money) for different models of the same product as well as competing devices and which one is the most cost effective. more... daniel.bennis.take.out@sisoftware.co.uk (Daniel Bennis) Fri, 13 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://www.sisoftware.co.uk/?dir=qa&location=ben_cap_vs_cost http://www.sisoftware.co.uk/?dir=qa&location=ben_cap_vs_cost news What is it? A chart, available in all benchmarks that compares the performance of the device with its power (TDP). It allows us to view how the device's performance varies with the amount of power it dissipates (and thus consumes) and how competing devices perform for the same amount of power (aka power envelope).<BR><BR>Added Intel Atom, Core 2 ULV; VIA C7-M ULV, Nano results. more... daniel.bennis.take.out@sisoftware.co.uk (Daniel Bennis) Sun, 1 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://www.sisoftware.co.uk/?dir=qa&location=ben_perf_vs_power http://www.sisoftware.co.uk/?dir=qa&location=ben_perf_vs_power news What is it? A chart, available in all benchmarks that compares the performance of the device with the speed it is running at. It allows us to view how the device's performance scales with its speed and how competing devices perform at the same speed.<BR><BR>Added Intel Atom, Core 2 ULV; VIA C7-M ULV, Nano results. more... daniel.bennis.take.out@sisoftware.co.uk (Daniel Bennis) Sun, 1 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://www.sisoftware.co.uk/?dir=qa&location=ben_perf_vs_speed http://www.sisoftware.co.uk/?dir=qa&location=ben_perf_vs_speed news What is it? A chart, available in all benchmarks that compares the performance of the device with it purchasing cost. It allows us to view how performance varies with cost (i.e. how much performance you get for your money) for different models of the same product as well as competing devices and which one is the most cost effective. more... daniel.bennis.take.out@sisoftware.co.uk (Daniel Bennis) Tue, 27 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://www.sisoftware.co.uk/?dir=qa&location=ben_perf_vs_cost http://www.sisoftware.co.uk/?dir=qa&location=ben_perf_vs_cost news We are pleased to launch SP2c, the latest version of our award-winning utility, Sandra.<BR><BR>We added a killer functionality that we're so excited about it just could not wait until the next major release: we wanted to get it out there now! We have taken Sandra to the next level, making the software aware of the 'bang-per-buck' school of thought. more... daniel.bennis.take.out@sisoftware.co.uk (Daniel Bennis) Wed, 23 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://www.sisoftware.co.uk/?dir=news&location=xii_sp2_release&a=SP2C http://www.sisoftware.co.uk/?dir=news&location=xii_sp2_release&a=SP2C news How "green" are the processors in your system? How well do all the power management technologies employed by them work? Do they work at all? Today, with the drive to lower carbon (CO2) emissions, all processors aim to use lower power than previous models.<BR><BR>The <B>Power Management Efficiency</B> benchmark was specifically designed to show you how the processors behave under various workloads, something that you cannot see using traditional benchmarks that use all the power available to them.<BR><BR>Check it out! more... adrian.silasi.take.out@sisoftware.co.uk (C. Adrian Silasi) Mon, 21 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://www.sisoftware.co.uk/?dir=qa&location=ben_pwreff_detail&a=SIS http://www.sisoftware.co.uk/?dir=qa&location=ben_pwreff_detail&a=SIS news Today we're taking a look at one of the new benchmarks launched in version XI, <B>Multi-Core Efficiency</B> benchmark. Learn what it does, how it works and what its results mean. How do current processors compare and how will future, soon to be released, processors fare?<BR><BR>If you have a SMP system or multi-core processor check it out! more... adrian.silasi.take.out@sisoftware.co.uk (C. Adrian Silasi) Mon, 14 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://www.sisoftware.co.uk/?dir=qa&location=ben_mcore_detail&a=SIS http://www.sisoftware.co.uk/?dir=qa&location=ben_mcore_detail&a=SIS news SiSoftware is pleased to announce Java support in SiSoftware Sandra XII (2008).<BR><BR>With the continued security implications for ActiveX components an the increased popularity of 3-rd party web-browsers (Firefox, Opera), Java applets are making a comeback. In addition, many open-source applications are written in Java, allowing them to work on multiple platforms (Linux, FreeBSD, Mac OSX, Solaris) than just Windows using the same code base. more... daniel.bennis.take.out@sisoftware.co.uk (Daniel Bennis) Fri, 14 Sep 2007 00:00:00 GMT http://www.sisoftware.co.uk/?dir=news&location=java_release http://www.sisoftware.co.uk/?dir=news&location=java_release news SiSoftware is pleased to announce .NET support in SiSoftware Sandra XII (2008).<BR><BR>The ability of a computer system to run .NET applications is fast becoming more important than its ability to run native applications and has to be included to provide a complete performance analysis of such computer system. more... daniel.bennis.take.out@sisoftware.co.uk (Daniel Bennis) Fri, 7 Sep 2007 00:00:00 GMT http://www.sisoftware.co.uk/?dir=news&location=dotnet_release http://www.sisoftware.co.uk/?dir=news&location=dotnet_release