Every disk carries its own health report and hides it in raw numbers. GSmartControl lists the attributes in plain language, highlights the dangerous ones, runs short and long self tests, and keeps the reports for comparison.

Idle machine, humming fan, warm palm rest after twenty minutes of editing: the built-in settings panel offers nothing to intervene with. Macs Fan Control shows every sensor reading in one window and lets you hold a speed or write a temperature rule.

SteelSeries GG folds the old Engine configurator into a modern suite: keyboards, mice and headsets managed in one place, macros and lighting synced, profiles switching per game. The Sonar audio module adds spatial presets, a ten band equalizer and microphone cleanup, and it works with headsets from any brand.

Prime95 is the official stress tool of the GIMPS prime search: Small FFTs pushes cores and cache to the limit, Large FFTs leans on the memory controller, and a portable cross-platform build makes it the shared yardstick for overclock stability, cooling and power checks.

G HUB replaces the old gaming software and manages mice, keyboards, headsets and wheels from one console, with per game profiles, DPI tuning and synchronised lighting.

Blender Benchmark is the Blender Foundation open source render benchmark, measuring Cycles performance on fixed scenes for CPU and GPU, with scores that can be uploaded anonymously to Open Data and compared with machines worldwide.

Prime95 began as the client for a distributed prime search and became the reference load for overclocking and cooling. Several test sizes decide whether the processor alone or the whole memory path is put under strain, and it runs free on three systems.

UEFITool opens a firmware image layer by layer into volumes, modules and drivers, can extract or replace a module, and runs on all three desktop systems.

Flashrom identifies and reads or writes the flash chip on a board, either through the internal interface or with an external programmer, and asks for a backup first.

Samsung Magician is Samsung's own management tool for its solid-state drives, free on Windows and macOS. It shows firmware version, temperature, health and cumulative writes, updates firmware, benchmarks read and write speeds, runs diagnostics, tunes with TRIM and over-provisioning, and can wipe or migrate a drive.

GParted 1.8.1 is the stable release listed on the project page, with the live boot image numbered 1.8.1-6. Published as free software under the GNU GPL version 2 or later, it resizes, copies and moves partitions without losing data.