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Everything SPECTRA does

Eleven inventory sections, every live sensor, and the parts nobody else reads.

This page is the full list. Each item below is a field SPECTRA reads on the machine it runs on, not an estimate and not a lookup.

01 · Inventory

The whole machine, field by field

Collected from WMI, SMBIOS, CPUID, the registry, EDID, the vendor GPU libraries and the kernel driver, then shown as a tree you can fold and export.

Full inventory page with the export bar and the folded sections

Operating system

Edition, build, install date, activation, hotfixes, security center state, power plan, locale, system folders, scheduled tasks, services, environment, processes, TCP connections.

CPU

Name, code name, revision, socket, family / model / stepping, cores and threads, caches, bus and multiplier, instruction sets, virtualization and hypervisor state, per-core clocks.

RAM

Totals, slots, channels, DRAM clock, each module's SPD: manufacturer, part number, DRAM maker, JEDEC timing table, XMP 2.0 / 3.0 and EXPO profiles, plus the live timings the controller is running.

Motherboard

Maker, model, chipset and southbridge by name, BIOS, expansion slots with lane width and PCIe generation, and the hardware monitor: voltages, temperatures, fans.

Graphics

Monitors from EDID (size, native mode, serial), adapters with true VRAM, driver, PCIe link, VBIOS, architecture and process node on NVIDIA, performance levels.

Storage

Drives, interface, firmware, partitions and volumes, full S.M.A.R.T. attribute tables and NVMe health logs, AMD RAID array members, optical drives.

Audio and peripherals

Playback and capture endpoints with their formats, keyboards, mice, printers with duplex / colour / paper, USB and other devices with their drivers.

Network

Adapters with addresses, DNS, DHCP and link speed, proxy state for WinInet and WinHTTP, discovery per firewall profile, shares, live throughput.

02 · Live monitoring

Every second, with history

A service running as SYSTEM samples the sensors and hands them to the window, so nothing needs an admin prompt and the readings keep coming while the window is closed to the tray.

CPU load total and per core, package or Tctl temperature, per-core clocks.
GPU temperature, hotspot, memory temperature, load, memory controller, core and memory clocks, power, fan, voltage, VRAM. NVIDIA through NVML, AMD through ADL, Intel through IGCL.
Board VCORE, +3.3 / +5 / +12 V and the other rails, CPU and system temperatures, every fan header, with per-board tables for ASUS, MSI, Gigabyte and ASRock conventions.
Memory used, available, DIMM temperatures on DDR5.
Storage drive temperature and life remaining from S.M.A.R.T., disk throughput.
Network download and upload in real time.
History a card per sensor with its trend, min / max / average, and a plus sign to make it an alert.
History page: a grid of sensor cards with sparklines
Memory page: modules, live timings and the SPD tree
03 · The kernel driver

Ring 0, on a short leash

Some readings only exist below Windows. SPECTRA's driver reaches them through a fixed allow-list of ports and registers, nothing more; it is signed by Microsoft's hardware program, so it loads on any Windows 10 or 11 machine with Secure Boot on.

Super-I/O hardware monitor

Nuvoton NCT67xx and ITE IT87xx chips: voltage rails, temperatures, fan speeds, decoded with the board maker's wiring.

SPD over SMBus

DDR4 and DDR5 module EEPROMs on Intel and AMD chipsets, checksum-verified, with XMP 2.0, XMP 3.0 and EXPO profiles.

Live memory timings

CL, tRCD, tRP, tRAS, tRC, tRFC, tREFI, tFAW, tRRD, tWR, tCWL, command rate, gear-down and power-down, read from the AMD memory controller.

04 · Alerts

Limits, not dashboards to stare at

Nine rules preconfigured: CPU, GPU and hotspot temperatures, VRAM, disk temperature, CPU load, memory. Add one from any sensor with a click. A tray notification when a limit is crossed, a quiet period so nothing spams you, and a log of every event.

05 · Exports, CLI, API

Take the data with you

JSON, plain text or a self-contained HTML report from the app. The spectra command exports, monitors, diffs two snapshots and serves the dashboard from any prompt. A local JSON API for your own tools.

06 · Updates and privacy

Quiet, signed, honest

Updates download in the background, are checked against a SHA-256 and the publisher's signature, and install only while you are away from the machine. Telemetry is anonymous hardware facts, off by default, previewable, never the inventory.

See it on your own machine

Two minutes from download to the first reading.

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