How To Find The Specs On Your Windows 11 PC

Knowing the specs of your Windows 11 PC can help with troubleshooting, or let you know if you can run certain apps — here’s how to find them.

At one point or another, you might need to find the specifications — or specs — of your Windows 11 PC. Knowing the specs of the hardware powering your PC comes in handy when you encounter issues and need to troubleshoot your system. Likewise, you might want to know if your laptop has enough firepower to run your favorite. Or perhaps you’re a seasoned veteran and possess multiple battlestation PCs, but are unable to recall the specific details of your current system.

Thankfully, finding the specs after the fact isn’t that hard, and there are a few ways you can do it. In this article, we’ve compiled all the different methods you can use to find the specs of your Windows 11 machine.

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Find specs using the Windows 11 Settings app

The first and easiest method to find the specs of your Windows 11 PC is to use the Settings app. This will give you a fairly basic rundown of the specs – including the processor and RAM, as well as information about your version of Windows. To do this, follow these steps:

1. Open the Settings app (it should be in the Start menu).
2. In the System section, scroll down and click About.
3. Here you’ll see your system specs, which include your processor model and the base clock speed, as well as the amount of RAM your computer has.

   

4. Just below that, you’ll also see your Windows specifications, so you can see what version and build of Windows you’re running. You may be running the original release of Windows 11, or maybe you already have Windows 11 version 22H2, for example.

If you’re seeing some software issues, they can be related to a specific version of Windows, so this is all useful to know. Still, this is a very limited set of specs, and you may want to know more. Let’s explore some other methods.

If you’re mostly focused on specs related to gaming, or anything around the CPU, GPU, and audio devices, the DirectX Diagnostic Tool is a great way to find out more about your system’s hardware and the features it supports. To open the DirectX Diagnostic Tool:

1. Open the Start menu and type dxdiagthen hit Enter.
   • Alternatively, you can press the Windows key + R to open the Run window, then type dxdiag there.
2. You’ll be asked if you want to check whether your drivers are digitally signed. Click Yes.

This main page — the System tab — shows you basic system information, including your version and build of Windows, the BIOS version, and some information about your processor and RAM. The most interesting part of this, however, is the Display tab — there may actually be more than one if your PC has more than one GPU, as with many gaming laptops.

This shows you information including the name of your GPU, the amount of memory available to it, your driver version, and what DirectX features it supports. DirectX is essential for running games on your PC, so support for specific features may determine if some games can run well or not.

You also have the Audio tab with information about your audio drivers, and the Input tab lists connected input devices like a keyboard, mouse, and others.

Using System Information

If you want to get more detailed information about the specs on your Windows 11 PC, another great option is the aptly named System Information. This is an older tool that’s been in Windows for many years.

The easiest way to open System Information is to simply open the Start menu and type System Information until it shows up in the search results. If that doesn’t work, try this:

1. Open the Start menu.
2. Head into the All apps list.
3. Scroll down and open Windows Tools.

   

4. Click System Information.

The System Information window opens by default into a system summary, which includes information about your processor, including the base clock speed, the number of physical cores, and the logical processors (also known as threads). You can also find your RAM on this page.

If you want more information about other hardware inside your PC, expand the Components section on the side menu. There, you can find information about the display (including the GPU/graphics card), sound devices, storage, and more. Additionally, you can also expand certain sub-sections to gain more insight into the devices.

Using Windows Terminal

If you’re someone who simply works better with command line-based tools, you can also use the Windows Terminal app to find your system specs. Windows Terminal is a console host that can run both Command Prompt and Windows PowerShell, and both of these tools let you find the specs of your PC, though with different commands and slightly different outputs. Command Prompt provides a slightly cleaner-looking output.

Using Windows PowerShell

1. Open the Start menu and type Windows Terminal until it shows up in the search results and press Enter.
2. Enter Get-ComputerInfo and press Type.

   

3. To find information about a specific part of your PC, you can use Get-ComputerInfo Property followed by the name of the property you want to see. You can also use wildcards to see properties that start with similar names.

Using Command Prompt

1. Open the Start menu and type Command prompt until it shows up in the search results then press Enter.
2. If you’re using Windows PowerShell, enter systeminfo and press Enter.

   

These methods don’t include a ton of information about things like your GPU, but it’s yet another way to find the specs on your PC.

Using HWiNFO64

While the built-in utilities on Windows 11 work well, you can also look into some third-party alternatives if you want a comprehensive analysis of your systems specifications. HWiNFO64 is one of the best tools out there, and here’s how you can use it to find details about all your hardware.

1. Head to HWiNFO64’s official website and download the portable version of the app.
2. Extract the folder you just downloaded and run HWiNFO64.exe with administrator privileges.
3. Click on the Start button.

   

4. Once HWiNFO64 boots up, the System Summary window will display a general overview of the hardware.

   

5. You can find detailed information on individual components by clicking on their respective tabs.

   

Keeping tabs on your PC specs in Windows 11

And that’s all you need to know to find the specs on a Windows 11 PC. Out of these methods, we’d say the DirectX Diagnostic Tool and System Information offer the most detailed information, while HWiNFO is one of the best third-part tools that gets the job done. Once you know what you’re looking for, any of these is a good way to get more information about your PC.

All that said, there’s still one left component that you probably won’t be able to detect using these apps: the PSU. As such, you may need to disassemble your PC and read the physical labels on the power supply if you wish to know more about the PSU powering your system.

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