Re: [Sheflug] Cpu stuff

[ian <xxxxx [at] xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi ya

Yeah the Athlon chips are in comparison to the Intel ones, please have a look 
at this page. Your processor is fine (well slightly better since it is 
running slightly quicker than the 1467 it is supposed to. :)

http://www6.tomshardware.com/cpu/01q4/011031/

Hope this helps
Ian

On Friday 17 May 2002 7:50 pm, David Holden wrote:
> I seem to recall last time I checked it said 50 deg. C on one of our
> dual athlons.
>
> I think the 1700+ is meant to say this chip is equivalent in power to a
> pentium running at 1700Mhz so I don't think you are being cheated here
> but don't quote me on that :)
>
> dave.
>
> Richard Fletcher wrote:
> > Having got a virtually new system I find in my bios that I can shut down
> > the system when the CPU reaches a certain temperature, I've never known
> > it to go over 7 degrees celcius, but it could have done, because I only
> > see the temperature at boot up, therefore I only see the working
> > temperature after a reboot. What temperature should I tell the bios to
> > shut down at, and is there a way of monitoring the temperature once in
> > Linux?
> >
> > Another thing is I've looked at the information on my CPu as provided by
> > the Kde preferences->Information->processor app, and it says my Athlon
> > 1700+ is running at 1472.993 Mhz, am I being cheated out of ~100Mhz?

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