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Peter Gordon wrote:
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<pre wrap="">On Sun, 2006-02-19 at 22:17 -0600, <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:akonstam@trinity.edu">akonstam@trinity.edu</a> wrote:
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<pre wrap="">I bought a Dell laptop that was supposed to have a 1.86GHz processor.
But cat /proc/cpuinfo displays:
processor : 0
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 6
model : 13
model name : Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1.86GHz
stepping : 8
cpu MHz : 798.060
cache size : 2048 KB
Have I been lead astray?
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No. The model name is correct. It's very likely just the CPU/kernel
scaling the speed on an "as-needed" basis to save power. ("Intel
Enhanced SpeedStep Technology," I believe it's called.)
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You can used this applet <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.gnomefiles.org/app.php?soft_id=406">http://www.gnomefiles.org/app.php?soft_id=406</a>
to change the CPU speed.<br>
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Best Regards. <br>
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