Re: [Sheflug] Cpu stuff

[Alan Wilson <xxxxx [at] xxxxxxxxxx>]

Richard, 
	I'm not sure how you can tell the temperature of your chip one you are
in linux, but don't worry about KDE showing your processer as running at
1472 MHz, this is normal for Athlon CPUs.  Basically they are sold on
their "equvilent performance speed" when compared to Intel, i.e. 1700+
gives you the same perfomance as a P4 1700, even though it is actually
running a lot slower.  Its all down to marketing as people just go for
the number, if they sold it as a 1400 chip everyone would think its a
slower chip than the intel one, but its not !

That should be as clear as mud now ! :)

On Fri, 2002-05-17 at 18:52, 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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