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From: Hans-Werner Hilse <hilse@web.de>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Real CPU speed
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Hi,

On Mon, 11 Sep 2006 20:31:00 -0700 Grant <emailgrant@gmail.com> wrote:

> > > How can I determine my current CPU speed?  I have a Celeron 700
> > > that should be running at 1050 if I insulated one of its pins
> > > correctly. All of the information I can find on determining CPU
> > > speed is related to mobile speedstep processors and mine is a
> > > desktop CPU.
> > >
> > > - Grant
> >
> > Hi Grant,
> >
> >  try
> >
> >          cat /proc/cpuinfo
> >
> >  which will give you a hint, what the Linux kernel thinks what you
> > CPU is and with which clock it runs.

Yes, but the kernel will ask the CPU for some of that information.

> Darn:
> 
> cpu MHz         : 697.899

More interesting is probably the bogomips value, or better: the amount
that value has changed. Maybe there's still a trace
in /var/log/messages from a bootup before overclocking.

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BogoMips for some information about
approximate multipliers for determining MHz from that.

> Will do!  Any way you know of to check my front side bus and memory
> bus speed?

Oscilloscope! :-) Maybe your BIOS has monitoring for such values?

-hwh
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