MHuizer schrijft dat er een nieuwe versie is van SiSoft Sandra. Voor de onwetenden onder ons: met Sandra kan je benchmarken, informatie over de PC inwinnen en diagnoses stellen. In versie 2001 zijn er vooral vernieuwingen wat betreft de software en hardware support:
- Enhanced (unofficial) support for Windows 2000/1 & NT4.
- Burn-in Wizard to test system stability.
- Full Pentium 4 support and new SSE2 benchmarks (Whetstone, int/float Mandelbrot, int/float STREAM)
- Full AMD DDR platform support and enhanced MMX/3DNow! benchmarks (int/float Mandelbrot)
- Full current VIA chipset/south bridges support.
- Full current ALI chipset/south bridges support.
- Multiplexor support for all current Asus mainboards including SMP boards.
- Auto system clock generator (PLL IC) detection. Thus more precise detection of AGP, PCI and memory speeds.
- Support for new hardware monitor chips.
- Fixed various issues with detection (chipset, system monitoring chips, etc.) See FAQ for details.